Valleywag
Photo sharing site and Yahoo subsidiary Flickr released a new friend finder feature yesterday that will search your email contact lists, much like many other social networking sites have done over the past few years. The difference is that rather than giving Flickr your email and password to access your account, you're taken to a page from your email provider, providing an extra layer of security and winning some kudos from the data portability crowd. However, Flickr users about to be deluged by friend requests from anyone they've ever traded emails with probably won't be so amused. In a completely unrelated development, original Ludicorp project Game Neverending is now back online, complete with a fake announcement from Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang.
Prepare to be flooded by Flickr friend requests
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5:40 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Jackson West
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Great, another service where FatScoble and MahaloBoy battle for "friends"
Doubt it, I know about 2 people who use flickr
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