The criticisms started piling up as soon as Flickr said it would end its free terabyte of photo storage and delete all but a member’s 1,000 most recent photos unless the member upgraded to a $50 annual pro subscription. “Internet say goodbye” to “11,000 photos that were hosted on #flickr,” said one tweet. “I’m sad …
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eHarmony reportedly plans to build a chatbot that’ll put a stop to ghosting. You know, when someone suddenly cuts off communication without an explanation. The dating website’s planned bot will analyze two users’ dating profiles and recommend “say something” or what they should say after communication has stopped for a couple of days or weeks, according to Yahoo Finance. For …
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When Flickr announced this month it will limit free accounts to 1,000 photos and delete any that cross that threshold, it wasn’t immediately clear what happens to the Flickr Commons, the tens of millions of freely shareable photos from museums, governments and other archives. Well, now we know: Flickr will keep them. “The historical photos up there are just priceless. …
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SmugMug, trying to strengthen its Flickr site as a community for photo enthusiasts, will limit free members to 1,000 photos and scrap the old policy of a terabyte of storage in an attempt to move toward subscriptions. The move, accompanied by a 30 percent discount on the $50 annual Flickr pro membership through Nov. 30, is the first big business …
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Inrupt, the startup from web creator Tim Berners-Lee, isn’t about to squeeze Facebook off the internet, but it has attracted interest from tens of thousands of people. Inrupt is backing an open-source project from Berners-Lee called Solid that’s designed to let us keep control over own data instead of handing it over to companies like Facebook and Google. Over the …
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The internet in the 1990s was filled to the brim with flashy text art, pixelated graphics, neon colors and broken HTML. Yet somehow, those were simpler times. The web-hosting site GeoCities was a paragon of this early internet era, but in March 2019 (almost 25 years after its creation in 1994) it’ll cease to exist. Yahoo Japan announced that it …
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If you use your Yahoo email account for online shopping, listen up. Oath, the Verizon-owned company that runs Yahoo’s web properties, is scanning your inbox for commercial emails, according to a report Tuesday from The Wall Street Journal. Verizon bought Yahoo last year. The emails would appear to include order confirmations and other such messages from online retailers. Oath uses …
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Apple allegedly pressured Yahoo Japan to cut back development of its game platform, a report says. The Fair Trade Commission, Japan’s antitrust watchdog, is investigating reports that Apple interfered with the potential App Store competitor, according to Nikkei. Yahoo’s Game Plus platform, launched in July 2017, lets people play games without needing to download apps. Now playing: Watch this: 11 …
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People just kept scooping up Apple’s iPhone X. The company said Tuesday it sold 41.3 million iPhones in its fiscal third quarter. That performance isn’t bad for a gadget that’s been on the market for roughly six months, though it missed the consensus estimate of 41.8 million units, according to Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein. By comparison, the …
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Verizon’s Go90 is going away. The wireless carrier said Thursday that it’ll shut down the ads-supported mobile video app on July 31. Launched three years ago, Go90 offered anybody, regardless of wireless carrier, a mix of traditional TV; live programming like NFL and college football games; and shorter clips commonly associated with sites like YouTube. But Go90 has been taking …
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