{"id":730,"date":"2007-02-01T16:15:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T20:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/02\/01\/flickr-f-off\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T14:21:46","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T18:21:46","slug":"flickr-f-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/02\/01\/flickr-f-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Flickr, f-off."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s it. I&#8217;m definitely dropping my flickr account.  Like so many others, I received flickr&#8217;s &#8220;dear old skool members&#8221; email the other day, and after looking at yahoo&#8217;s sign-up requirements (birthdate, gender, full name, postal\/zip code, address, etc.), I thought, &#8220;how about I bend over for you while I&#8217;m at it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The flickr brand is about to go into death-dive mode, it seems, swallowed by yahoo.  Burp.<\/p>\n<p>For a whole bunch of buzz around this, see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/social\/?p=79\">Steve O&#8217;Hear on today&#8217;s ZDNet<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/thomashawk.com\/2007\/01\/theres-some-mighty-pissed-off-flickr.html\">Thomas Hawk<\/a> (CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.zooomr.com\/home\">Zoomr<\/a>); <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smugmug.com\/onethumb\/2007\/01\/31\/the-dark-side-of-the-flickr-acquisition\/\">Don MacAskill of SmugMug<\/a> (offering a 50% discount to us &#8220;old skoolers&#8221;), and others (listed\/ linked in the above links).<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, this is it: flick off!<\/p>\n<p>(Update: I added an explanation of why I find the forced switch to yahoo objectionable on Feb.2\/07.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/02\/02\/flickring-off-a-follow-up\/\">this entry<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s it. I&#8217;m definitely dropping my flickr account. Like so many others, I received flickr&#8217;s &#8220;dear old skool members&#8221; email the other day, and after looking at yahoo&#8217;s sign-up requirements (birthdate, gender, full name, postal\/zip code, address, etc.), I thought, &#8220;how about I bend over for you while I&#8217;m at it?&#8221; The flickr brand is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}