On: Yahoo Reduces Staff By 4 Percent; Hands Out Pink Slips To Over 500 Employees

[aaronbrethorst]

I need to renew my Flickr Pro account in a couple weeks, but it looks like the writing is on the wall for the service. Who are the primary competitors to Flickr out there?

edit: to clarify, I'm an amateur photographer with a DSLR and some big glass (you can check out my stuff on Flickr via the link on my profile page if you're curious). I need to be able to store full-sized images, organize my stuff into sets, geotag, and, ideally, store RAW images on the server, too.

Some social stuff like what Flickr does would be great, too.

[seldo → aaronbrethorst]

As an ex-Yahoo I think it very unlikely that anything would happen to Flickr. Flickr is still one of the very-largest social networks:

http://mashable.com/2010/12/12/youtube-buzzed-social-network...

(It's not #2; Zeta's methodology is very odd. But in volume it's still top 5)

It's also Yahoo's only successful play in the social space to date (unless you count delicious). They would never axe it.

I also don't know who told you they were a skeleton crew; they were hiring until quite recently.

[aaronbrethorst → seldo]

that's a relief. i'm glad what i heard is wrong.

[zaatar → aaronbrethorst]

http://smugmug.com/ is a popular alternative to flickr.

[kscaldef → aaronbrethorst]

> it looks like the writing is on the wall for the service

What leads you to say that? The article doesn't mention Flickr at all.

[aaronbrethorst → kscaldef]

A few things. First, an ex-Yahoo and friend of mine described the Flickr product group as a 'skeleton crew' to me all the way back in Summer 2009. I can't imagine the situation has improved subsequently.

Second, The self-referential link in the article does mention Flickr: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/14/yahoo-employees/. And so does a link in 'yahoo-employees' to an article from two weeks ago further suggests Flickr people getting cut: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/30/yahoo-layoffs/

[nostrademons → aaronbrethorst]

I thought FaceBook was #1 and Picasa was #3. Imgur also seems to be increasing a lot in popularity.