Finding no sense in continuing the ever flopping world of Yahoo photos, rumor has it that this portion of the search engine empire will be shutting down soon in favor of Flickr, a growingly popular photo image hosting site.

Yahoo photos was never really able to reach and achieve its goals. A lot of players entered the scene such as Flickr and sad to note that they had done much better as far as performance and preference is to be gauged. Hopefully, people would be aware of this soon since there are still people who use them and are totally unaware of the impending shutdown of the Yahoo Photo category.

The news is out (all over the place) that Yahoo is shutting down its stumbling Yahoo Photos site in favor of Flickr. But unless you’re read the tech blogs, you wouldn’t know it.

Here we are more than 12 hours after the news broke, and there’s no announcement on Yahoo Photos, Flickr’s news page, the Flickr blog or any Yahoo site. I’m a member of both photo services, and I haven’t received an e-mail or seen a blog post. What gives, Yahoo? Why are you keeping your users in the dark?

I don’t have many pictures in my Yahoo Photos account (I switched to Flickr long ago) but I do have some photos there. What’s going to happen to them? Am I going to have to migrate them to Flickr myself? More importantly, what steps is Yahoo going to take to ensure I don’t lose any photos in the migration?

Updated @ 3:19 PDT: Still no e-mail announcement, but Yahoo has posted migration instructions for Yahoo Photos users. See our post on the topic. – Hey, Yahoo—What’s Gonna Happen To My Photos?

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Weblogs, Inc. has closed their Digital Photography Weblog:

The Digital Photography Weblog is retiring. This is a sad development (heh—see what I did there?) for loyal readers, but fits right in with the evolution of Weblogs Inc. This blog will remain archived for reference and searching.

In a comment left over at Problogger, Weblogs, Inc. CEO Jason Calacanis provides some thoughts in the comments, including this closing paragraph, which tells the real story:

bottom line: we are in phase two at WIN, and phase two is about scale. We knnow we can make money, the question is can we scale this business to a LOT of money. Like move the needle at AOL money–and we’re on the way.

Jack of All Blogs, once owned by David Krug has moved over to The Bloggy Network, having been acquired by that network.

There’s some noise about this move from many audiences – David has his piece here, the new owners here, Dan Azrrella here, and some others weigh in as well: Gonzo Musings, Chartreuse (see the comments)

BlogMedia is selling their SEO Memo blog. Details also at dnforum for DN Platinum account holders.

Gawker Media is shrinking, according to this post by Gawker Head Honcho Nick Denton.

We have some commentary over at The Blog Herald.

“He’s dead, Jim”

New ownership, site traffic down nearly 50%, and even Alexa shows the end.

Farewell, JOAB. I unsubscribed today.

Syntagma Media is holding a funeral for a few blogs.

BlogMedia, Inc. announces some staff and blog lineup changes:

As we came upon our four month anniversary, it has become clear that being bleary-eyed at all hours of the day and trying to be all things to each other – and to our audiences – that we had to take a hard look around and choose a path.

For some of our team, their heart was with the consulting world. The ability to design, to guide others, to create a beautiful blog out of what was a boring Wordpress or Movable Type theme – or the joy inherent in helping a client achieve what they set out to do.

For others, their heart was with the creation of news, of building a community, of sharing their passion for blogging and other topics that we cover in the network.

The Man Blog, having joined 9rules only in January, announced today that they are quitting 9rules:

In as much as we appreciate the exposure that 9rules has given us, we regret to inform all our readers(both of you) that starting today, we are giving up our membership in the said network as a result of a difference in philosophy. We’re dicks and well, they’re a bunch of pussies. Normally that combination works. However, we are talking attitude and frame of mind here, not body parts. So it is clear that things cannot work out between 9rules and The Man blog.

Read the rest in order to get the full story and the punchline.

WorkBoxers, a member of Paul Scriven’s Fine Fools network, is closing:

WorkBoxers is closing.

Scrivs has decided that with this site being such a personal site for him, he doesn’t want to see it neglected any further. Even though I have held up the blogging responsibilites and kept it alive, he doesn’t have time to contributue and would prefer it closed up and shipped. Obviously I cannot just take over as quite a few posts are the property of Scrivs. We are undecided as to what will happen, either I take my posts somewhere else or we end up selling it and splitting the amount.