Flickr Revolution

Flickr has been an amazing online photo community and gets more and more interesting with an ever growing user base. There are groups for just about anything. The user interface is simple and easy to learn, great for attracting not so tech savvy users. Hopefully the site continues to improve, in all aspects, what is already a polished photo centric site.

They have just announced that Yahoo! has acquired Flickr.

First off, congratulations to the creators, programmers, and initial supporters. It’s a big deal to be recognized in this way.

I see this move as being very beneficial to all of the Flickr users— especially the free accounts (a.k.a. me). Yes, I’m not a die hard fan, in fact I need to get around to taking pictures more often. There are, though, two things I see improving quite rapidly. Bandwidth limits should be increased. Uploads will be faster. These are just improvements I’m assuming Yahoo! would be able to manage easily.

Any features or improvements you see happening? Whats your take on the acquisition?