Random Culture

Yahoo! Buys Del.icio.us

That's right... Del.icio.us is now a part of the Yahoo! family. You can read more about it on the Del.icio.us blog, as well as on the Yahoo Search Blog. One of the first things happening seems to be work between Flickr and Del.icio.us. I can't wait to see the results!

Google, if you're listening, you'd better jump on the bandwagon. Flickr and Del.icio.us both belong to Yahoo now.

Playing Flickr?

The folks at Smart Mobs point to an interesting story about Restaurant 11 in Amsterdam that allows users to call up Flickr photos on the big screens in the club by sending an SMS message with a tag in it. You can check out some more pictures of that here, courtesy of the folks behind the screen installation, Mediamatic.

On a side note, did you know that Flickr was originally developed as a massively-multiplayer online game? Check out this interview with Flickr's Eric Costello.

Flickr/Yahoo Rumors True

Well, the rumors proved to be true... Ludicorp has been bought by Yahoo!, which means Flickr isn't an underdog anymore.

It will be interesting to see how this shakes out. Will Yahoo! integrate the Flickr functionality into other services? According to the official Flickr blog, yes. But Flickr will not become Yahoo! Photos.

"Yahoo Photos will get a lot of Flickr features, and there are alot of other areas around Yahoo that will also be Flickrized where Flickrization would be good."

Maybe integrate it into their new Yahoo! 360 offering?

Link via John Battelle.

Flickr Redesign?

I visited Flickr today and noticed that I was getting a different design for Firefox and IE. Is Flickr getting ready to rollout a redesign?

Click on the thumbnails below for full-size images. The standard design is pictured on the left... The new one I saw in Firefox today is on the right.