So this morning I got a letter from flickr informing me I have to use a Yahoo ID to sign into the site now. I was sad to no longer be a special "Old Skool" member, but I actually have a Yahoo ID (though I don't use Yahoo for email, I do use the ID for groups and such, and everything just comes to my gmail account anyway) so I figured, whatever. But now I'm seeing all sorts of internet furor about this change, including comments that we're losing our flickr names! I like being wordnerdy and I don't want to be boring ark131! Flickr has been down for me all day, so I've been unable to verify that annoying things are going on.
Anyone else have any information or thoughts on this?
The only thing this changes is how you login to flickr. Once past the login screen, everything else is exactly the same - your flickr username remains the same. I'm an old skooler as well, but I made the switch yesterday and it was painless and nothing about my general flickr experience has changed.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info! I jsut got a little worried after reading all these internet rants, and still can't get into flickr to see what the deal is. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm more annoyed at the mergerness than anything else. I've never liked yahoo, and i'm a bit annoyed that i have to get a Yahoo id (again). I hate that google owns blogger and yahoo owns flickr and so on and so on. I mean, fine, own them, but quit branding so damned hard.
ReplyDeleteI'd probably be less annoyed if the blogger beta hadn't turned everything into google IDs, or if the two had happened further apart.
Personally, i'm planning on just making a photo section of my own website. Yeah, i have to pay for the bandwidth, but it's not like i got much bandwidth at flickr. At least this way i can control the size of my pics.
Man, i'm cranky today.
I don't think you're being overly cranky--I agree about the over-branding, and for some reason my home computer can't recognize that I'm logged into Google when I head to Blogger so I have to log in twice EVERY TIME. But I adore Google anyway, for whatever reason.
ReplyDeleteI love that you're going to host photos on your own site--I'm too lazy to do that myself. I like the ease of having everything on flickr and just clicking something to blog it. I hate messin' around with sizing and whatnot. You're more creative and motivated than I am. :)
I have no information and no thoughts. But I do look pretty.
ReplyDeletei agree with ursa re: consolidation of internet properties. i guess it's no surprise; not only do our antiquated antitrust laws not factor in mergers and acquisitions when it comes to this new-fangled thing called the internets, but they don't even enforce the laws on non-internet properties.
ReplyDeleteperfect example is youtube. youtube went up against google video, and won, so what happened? google just bought youtube.
i guess the seamless media thing makes people's lives easier (hey, i use blogger, gmail, google reader, google desktop, google proper, etc.), but i wonder if the internet will eventually go the way of the "banalization," as the french call it, of commerce.
the thing that the internet has on the real world is that on the web "big box" retailers occupy the same amount of space as the little guys. at least, until net neutrality gets passed.