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How #Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
►http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-internet

As a result of being resource-starved, #Flickr quit planting the anchors it needed to climb ever higher. It missed the boat on local, on real time, on mobile, and even ultimately on social—the field it pioneered. And so, it never became the Flickr of video; #YouTube snagged that ring. It never became the Flickr of people, which was of course #Facebook. It remained the Flickr of photos. At least, until #Instagram came along.

The Flickr team was forced to focus on integration, not innovation.

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet (Gizmodo)
►http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-internet

This is the story of a wonderful idea. Something that had never been done before, a moment of change that shaped the Internet we know today. This is the story of Flickr. And how Yahoo bought it and murdered it and screwed itself out of relevance along the way. Do you remember Flickr’s tag line? It reads “almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.” It was an epic humble brag, a momentously tongue in cheek understatement. (...) Source: Gizmodo