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Thursday, September 21, 2006
I knew this day was coming and like me, tons of other blogs are going to have broken images in their archives. flickr had this great set up that it would allow you to view as many pictures as you wanted for free. The only catch was that you could only upload 20 MB per month. No biggy…for the user. Yahoo, after it’s purchase of flickr, saw its bandwidth bill go sky high and after yesterdays disappointing earnings announcements, well, things had to change. The free account was one of those things.
Now the free account for flickr users can only display the 200 most current pictures. After that, it’s broken image time with a nice little message encouraging you to go Pro. Pro will cost ya $24.95. Yahoo is plastering, “Holy smokes! That’s cheap!” but truth is, the previous set up was cheaper.
Everyone knew this day was coming and I would have to say for SvenOnTech, it’s better than losing all of your images at once because Yahoo pulls the plug on flikr. So, things could be worse.
Guess I have to pull out my credit card now. Excuse us for a moment…
