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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Fine Fools & 9rules site Successful Blog was mentioned in today’s Washington Post. Congrats!

Something about the 2005 Food Blog Awards & how Scrivs will buy your vote.

Feedburner introduces FeedFlare – you can see this at a feed near you soon. Umm, like ours.

Technorati launches The Technorati Kitchen.

Nick Denton has some domains for sale.

Syntagma Media talks about their next site launch – expected before Christmas.

Bloggers Blog has some thoughts on using Technorati or another search engine rather than comments. For the record, since I’m all about the community, I much prefer the comments. But they can be a bitch to moderate…

JOAB is back and has his own formula for blog rankings.

Technorati Tags: blognetworkwatch, remainders

Some good ideas and guidelines about business blogging over at Web Strategy by Jeremiah.

Easton posts a brief biography over at BusinessBlogWire.

Robb asks what’s a blog network?

Web 2.0 tagging site del.icio.us has been purchased by Yahoo!

BusinessBlogWire begins to review Jeremy Wright’s Book: Blog Marketing.

Darren posts thoughts on increasing your pageviews on your blog.

NotTooGeeky takes a look at broken links and funky sites over at Pajamas Media.

ZDnet has a good wrapup of recent Web 2.0 sites. Personally I like Girlspoke’s version of Web 3.0 – it involves scotch (me) and Jack Daniels (her).

Darren is thinking about how pro bloggers make money. A good classic post from earlier this year.

b5media interviews Christina Jones.

Jeremy Wright is dropping Chitika. I expect to see more and more of this in the days to come.

Blogebrity is cracking on the Jarvis v. Calacanis feud.

Barry has some different thoughts on problogger income and the like.

Blog Network Watch [.net] has some thoughts on starting up a blog network.

Nick Denton has some ideas for startups.

wurk doesn’t like the state of the blogosphere.

Weblogs, Inc. interviews Deidre Woolard of Luxist and Slashfood.

Blogebrity profiles the recent Instablogs redesign:

Instablogs, which launched this fall all pale and pasty, has rolled out ten redesigns ranging from decent to blow-away gorgeous. Each has enough flavor to rise above Creative Weblogs and, who knows, Weblogs Inc.

Performancing has a recap of their series on Blog Stats software.