Yahoo! Photos was a
photo sharing
Image sharing, or photo sharing, is the publishing or transfer of digital photos online. Image sharing websites offer services such as uploading, hosting, managing and sharing of photos (publicly or privately). This function is provided through ...
service launched on March 28, 2000 and owned by
Yahoo!
Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Manage ...
, designed specifically for Yahoo! users. Users created individual photo albums, categorized their photos and placed them in the corresponding albums. Users were also able to set access of their albums by publishing them for the viewing pleasure of everyone, disabling access, or marking them as private folders for their own viewing.
The service had unlimited storage for photos, but it was required that photos have the
jpeg/jpg extension. In an effort to make it simpler and more efficient, Yahoo had an uploader tool to drag and drop the pictures from one's computer to Yahoo! Photos
web page. In March 2005 Yahoo! purchased
Flickr
Flickr ( ; ) is an American image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was a popular way for amateur and profession ...
, and closed Yahoo! Photos on September 20, 2007 at 9:00 PM (PDT).
Shutdown
On June 16, 2007, Yahoo! Photos issued a press release stating that it would be terminating on September 20, 2007, in order to focus their efforts on
Flickr
Flickr ( ; ) is an American image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was a popular way for amateur and profession ...
.
Yahoo! Photos had proposed a number of alternatives for customers who wanted to move their photos to other services.
Several independent users have derived alternative solutions for migration of their photographs uploaded at Yahoo! Photos:
* Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos by Rohit Sud,
* Download Yahoo! Photos by
Kent Brewster
Kent Brewster (born 1961) is a writer, editor, and publisher. He was the publisher and frequent editor of the Hugo Award-nominated '' Speculations'', a magazine of science fiction and other speculative fiction, from its inception in 1994 until ...
, and
* Photos Grabber by Yandao.com
History
* March, 2000: Yahoo! Photos launched.
* March 29, 2005: Yahoo bought
Flickr
Flickr ( ; ) is an American image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was a popular way for amateur and profession ...
, which is an online community to share and discuss personal photos and montages.
* January 14, 2007: Yahoo! Photos updated the site with new features, including free full-resolution downloads from ISPs that have partnerships with Yahoo.
* May 3, 2007: An informal announcement was made that Yahoo! Photo was going to shut down. ''
USA Today
''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virgi ...
'' reported:
::"Yahoo Photos will be shut down by the fall. Users will be directed over a three-month period to transfer their images to Flickr or other photo sites such as Multiply, Shutterfly, Kodak Gallery, Snapfish or Photobucket. Yahoo says it will make the transition easy, with a one-click transfer" process."
* June 2007: Yahoo! photos was no longer accepting new accounts or allowing users to upload photos.
* September 20, 2007: Yahoo! Photos shut down. (October 18 for India users, October 19 for Australian users). Users can still follow a link to transfer their photos to one of five providers automatically:
Flickr
Flickr ( ; ) is an American image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was a popular way for amateur and profession ...
,
Shutterfly
Shutterfly, LLC. is an American photography, photography products, and image sharing company, headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company is mainly known for custom photo printing services, including books featuring user-provided im ...
,
Photobucket,
Snapfish
Snapfish is a web-based photo sharing and photo printing service owned by Shutterfly based in San Francisco, California.
History
Snapfish was launched in 1999 by business partners Rajil Kapoor, Bala Parthasarathy, Suneet Wadhwa, and Shripati A ...
, or
Kodak Gallery.
* October 18–19, 2007: Yahoo! Photos shut down for Indian and Australian users and all photos and accounts were deleted.
See also
*
Image hosting service
{{internet hosting, right
An image hosting service allows individuals to upload images to an Internet website. The image host will then store the image onto its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view that i ...
*
Photo sharing
Image sharing, or photo sharing, is the publishing or transfer of digital photos online. Image sharing websites offer services such as uploading, hosting, managing and sharing of photos (publicly or privately). This function is provided through ...
*
Flickr
Flickr ( ; ) is an American image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was a popular way for amateur and profession ...
References
External links
Yahoo! Photos website
{{Yahoo!_Inc.
Photos
Image-sharing websites
Internet properties disestablished in 2007