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Along with the announcement of the demise of Yahoo Photos, it looks like the Flickr of video will in the end turn out to be Flickr after all...

Butterfield also confirmed that Flickr will “soon” allow users to upload videos in addition to photos. - Michael Arrington

Nobody, including me, seems to know what to make of this aside. What does it mean for You Tube for instance? Will it hurt or help the Flickr community which is, perhaps surprisingly, full of technically competent people. As a long time Flickr user I fear that with this, along with the closure of Yahoo Photos, Yahoo might have opened the flood gates for a second September that never ends...

Yahoo, doing no evil? Español | Deutsch | Français | Italiano | Português

With Yahoo announcing the closure (via TechCrunch) of Yahoo Photos service in favour of their recently acquired Web 2.0 poster boy Flickr, you might imaging that users of the old service might be left in the cold. Or at best force migrated to Flickr?

Not so, instead users are being encouraged to export their data and migration paths to several other competing services such as Photobucket, Snapfish, Kodak Gallery or Shutterfly. Although of course there will be a on-click solution to migrate to Flickr.

Considering how tightly some companies try and hold on content, the content their users created in the first place, you have to give Yahoo credit for doing the right thing by their users. No evil here, move along now...