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Sad the future of "Yahoo!" (the tech company, not the Alibaba stock) is uncertain. They were always very open with their research. Thinking back to 2008/09 they had the biggest Hadoop clusters, etc. even the first edition of O'Reilys Hadoop books says "Yahoo press".

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That's really irrelevant here. I think we should focus on what an incredible contribution this is. Perhaps a sign of good things to come from Yahoo.

I hope they revive Yahoo tubes, if not as an actual tool, maybe as a teaching device. I was sad to see it go even though it was seriously falling apart at the end.

If you're referring to Yahoo Pipes, I wholeheartedly agree!

The owners of Yahoo don't care if there are more good things to come or even if Yahoo is gutted and killed as long as they don't have to pay taxes on their windfall Alibaba gains.

Flickr was -- and maybe still is -- very useful for the computer vision research community.

This is old news but we put together a 100M item dataset from Flickr as well, all Creative Commons licensed, including lots of metadata from users as well as some pre-computed features. It's called the YFCC100M.

http://yahoolabs.tumblr.com/post/89783581601/one-hundred-mil...

Is a Creative Commons license for research only or can it be used for commercial purposes if you attribute the original author?

How do they use it? Does it have a good programmatic access? Because UX-side, I'm surprised they still exist. I don't know of a single photo-related web site that has worse UI and is more annoying to use than Flickr.

It's funny, since Flickr was at the beginning the best of them. Google's PicasaWeb was comparatively bad.

Yahoo really let themselves get leapfrogged on that one.

This is extremely biased. A lot of people, myself included, find it easy and pleasant to use. Honestly, I'm not aware of a single alternative with a better UI/UX -- 500px maybe?

As for programmatic access -- Flickr has a good API interface.

I'm not aware of a single alternative with a better UI/UX

I don't use it anymore, but SmugMug.

SmugMug is great! It's a little bit different from Flickr though -- SmugMug is more of a personal photo hosting/portfolio website, while Flickr is more about photographers community. I believe the social aspects of Flickr are much more important than it's actual photo storage capabilities!

My trouble with the UX is that it is slow, slow, slow. I live in Frontier country and I have DSL, but there are many photo web sites that are faster than flickr.

I hardly upload anything to flickr anymore because the interface for that is so slow.

Flickr is great for finding Creative Commons-licensed images as well.

Amazing...did not know that. Thanks.

As a brand, I'm honestly impressed that they've lasted through so many sea changes.

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