Tag Archives: yahoo

Volumes of data

2.3 million photos with location data were uploaded to Flickr this month; 95,634,285 in total. That’s according to Brady Forrest’s post over at O’Reilly Radar on the appearance of Flickr photos on Google Street View. 2.3 million in one month!

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Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses

Ian Rogers of Yahoo! Music has had enough of the shortsightedness of the music industry and he’s not going to help them screw over customers any more.

Last week, in a excoriating talk, he lays out his history of involvement with music on the internet, and exactly why their position to date has been ridiculous and petty.

Suing Napster without offering an alternative just seemed like a denial of fact. Napster didn’t invent the ability to do P2P, it was inherent in TCP/IP. It was like throwing Newton in jail for popularizing the concept of gravity.

I’m here to tell you today that I for one am no longer going to fall into this trap. If the licensing labels offer their content to Yahoo! put more barriers in front of the users, I’m not interested. Do what you feel you need to do for your business, I’ll be polite, say thank you, and decline to sign. I won’t let Yahoo! invest any more money in consumer inconvenience.

It’s heartening to see someone in Ian’s position taking this stand and saying “no more”. The question is whether the music industry is listening.

I suspect not.

Hat tip: Nat Torkington at O’Reilly Radar.

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Flickr to require Yahoo! login — world about to end apparently

As you may have heard, Flickr have re-announced their intention to shut off the old sign-in system and move solely to Yahoo’s authentication system on the 15th March. (I say “re-announced” as this has been on the cards since the original buy out) From the furore erupting on the forums and on other sites you’d think Stuart […]

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