I was waiting to see the reaction on yesterdays Yahoo Photos Beta before posting some comments; but it seems few have been given beta access. The Unofficial Yahoo Blog is impressed though saying
"So far, it's truely impressive. The new Y! Photos is smartly designed for the family user who wants to collect their photos, print them occasionaly at Target and on coffee mugs. They want to give their friends access and to view photos their friends want to share but they are not trying to reveal their photo collection to the world. And that is the principal difference between those who will like Flickr (global exposure/RSS feeds) and those who will like Y! Photos (sharing with friends and family)."
Techcrunch has some thoughts too. While at Techcrunch have a read of new service Umondo "allows users to share photos and video captured on mobile phones without the need to set up an account. By entering a phone number or email, anyone can subscribe to a feed in a number of online readers or in iTunes. Code is also available to display video on MySpace pages."
1. This makes me more excited than anything Yahoo has done in a long time! I've long wanted Yahoo to upgrade that clunky old system; I even went as far as writing to some of their people a couple of times, but I didn't even get a response!
I've used Yahoo for everything more and more; my homepage, my e-mail, my photos, and usually they treat me pretty well, but this photo thing was really getting under my skin.
My primary gripe is that all the album names gave me about an inch and a half, then an ellipsis. How can you label an album like that? There's also no slideshow view, tags, or comments. Finally, though, somebody took notice. I was investigating someplace to jump ship to!
In fact, I just assumed they had created Flickr so they could scrap Yahoo Photos entirely. Why does Yahoo need two photo sharing sites anyway?
Posted at 4:43PM on Jun 10th 2006 by Mike