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Not since Biggie vs. Tupac have the East and West coasts been embroiled in as bloody a feud as
Dodgeball versus
Twitter. Since the former was acquired by Google, it's been the subject of occasionally surfacing rumors that it may be
culled or consolidated inside a broader Google mobile offering. Twitter user cee-dub
plants a rumor that Dodgeball.com may be about to "go dark"; no clue whether he means just the website or the service entire.
Concur or dispute?
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Regarding Thomas Hawk
getting referral traffic from a private Flickr forum discussing the possible Flickr-Yahoo Photos consolidation:
the flickr staff rarely uses the central-admin backchannel. when they do, it is to coordinate the activities of running the "flickr central" group, a job that is mostly left to volunteers. ... that link was posted in the backchannel feb 12th. i checked the backchannel and to comment with the link currently has no comments from anyone, let alone flickr staff.
Commenter Julian
amplifies:
The post in question didn't even get replies until someone posted a link to your post, and even then, it's not exactly like we know anything you don't. ... As to Hawk getting "a lot of referral traffic" from us, I rather doubt it, seeing as we have a grand total of 30 members, many of which don't check the group that frequently.
As they say, developing, though maybe not in that forum.
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When Dave Goldberg and Bob Roback
abruptly resigned from Yahoo Music, neither they nor Yahoo provided any particular explanation for the move. Yahoo gives only the "personal reasons" chestnut, with Goldberg and Roback declaring airy aspirations for a return to "entrepreneurial roots." The explanatory void leaves the tech media free to speculate, and they're all over the map.
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Thomas Hawk (CEO of Flickr competitor Zooomr)
riffed on our
prediction that Yahoo Photos would be terminated, with the possible coda of having its users and content ported to Flickr. Most of the reaction from Hawk and elsewhere focuses not on the demise of Yahoo Photos, but rather on the idea of a great unwashed mob of Yahoo Photos' casual snapshooters invading the pristine arty confines of Flickr. As a possible clue, Hawk tells us that his post on the issue is getting a lot of referral traffic from a
private Flickr Central forum, where Flickr staff and a few admins talk shop. Know what's going on in there?
Say so.
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Time to upgrade this from rumor to unannounced fact — that's our bet, anyway. "Consolidation" was the word seized upon most in Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse's "
Peanut Butter Manifesto." And consolidating the duplicate services provided by post-acquisition Flickr and Yahoo Photos makes sense. Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield
denied there would be any merging, but that doesn't rule out "consolidation" by way of elimination. For the whys and wherefores, read on.
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