Yahoo / Flickr Account – Access Aiight
Well, no thanks to Yahoo and all praise to the Flickr staff for helping me out with my recently ranted issues with access to Flickr via my Yahoo account.
I found the Flickr help contact page and asked them (instead of Yahoo) – in one last half-hearted attempt to resolve this thing – if they could unhook my Flickr account from my Yahoo account so I could attach a new Yahoo account. I was rewarded with a resolution (not a vague email – a resolution) within 24 hours.
They unhooked my account for me, and sent me a link which allowed my to log straight into the flickr account and hook it up to a new Yahoo ID.
So, Yahoo still sucks (and I am still disappointed that Flickr went over to them) but the Flickr staff are still awesome, and I send out a big “Thank you” for their help.
In terms of photo storage, I’m still not sure where I will leave them – Flickr limits you to 3 sets, Picasa limits you to 1GB of storage. Both have paid versions which expand them. Flickr has more functionality and is more popular, but is a bit more expensive and has the stinky Yahoo-ness. Picasa is (slowly) getting cool stuff like geolocation of photos on Google Maps, and I already use a lot of Google stuff, but I’m not sure that Google is very intent on displacing Flickr as the Photo Place On The Web – so maybe it will go nowhere. Picasa’s paid expansion expands only storage (but of all Google tools for your Google account).
Hmmm. Who knows what I will do?
Anyway, I thought you all know how things turned out 
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September 29th, 2007 at 12:39 am
What about the photo services that are run by neither Yahoo nor Google? I like Pixamo. You can add lots of tags and clicking on any tag will bring all of the similar photos together. So when your friends use the same keywords (which Pixamo recommends to them), you can bring all of your similar photos together with a click. It is a smart system, sort of like having photosets that can be rearranged or reorganized to show many different users’ photos (and videos) with ease. And Pixamo has an importer that will move your photos, tags, captions, and privacy settings from Flickr, Yahoo and other photo sharing sites. It’s pretty cool.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:07 am
Hi Sam.
Thanks for that. I had a peek at Pixamo, and while it looks interesting I am not sure that it is what I am after. It appears to be more in the nature of social bookmarking meets photo-storage – it looks like you have to sign up with them before you can view people’s photos (unless the photo is embedded in a web page).
I’m more after a place to store my photos over time, and link to sets of them from here (maybe drop one or two in a blog post over time).
Thanks – it does look interesting though