I have been looking at new media, social networks and Web 2.0 stuff over the past 2 weeks, and I came to see what I could learn from Yahoo! about flickr. There were several hundred people in attendance including the founders of flickr and many, many Yahoo! employees. Many of these employees were recent hires. The free food and alcohol was nice too. I posted a set of photos on my flickr account, and there are probably another 10,000 photos being uploaded as I post this. By definition everyone had a digital camera with them. From talking with the Yahoo! employees I learned about the flickr business, Yahoo! 360 Beta and other stuff. Just as an example, the Yahoo! team had massive screen where they scrolled in real-time all the photos uploaded to flickr. The rate was 5 new pictures per millisecond on the upload, and 8 times that on the download. There are apparently over 1.3M flickr subscribers and the number is growing 10% per month at least. This is a big hit.
I got to spend a few minutes with Jerry Yang co-founder of Yahoo! I saw him speak a few months back when he came to Churchill Club where Jerry basically put all the other speakers to shame with the impressive collection of gadgets, phones, etc. that he carries. I spoke with Jerry about our common interests in gadgets, and I congratulated him for putting Walter Mossberg and all the other speakers to shame. We commented about how most all the stuff he brought out only six months ago (2GB thumb drive, pocket sized XP PC, etc.) are now pretty much obsolete. I told Jerry about my interests to start another company in new media and web 2.0, and he sincerely wished me luck. Jerry was very gratious to hang around to spend time talking with people at the fiesta. This guy is very cool.
Today, I attended the Flickr Fiesta at Yahoo!'s main campus in Sunnyvale. This is an impressive facility. Just going through the massive parking structures it occured to me how good it is to be Yahoo! I don't know why I haven't been there before....
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Posted over 4 years ago
So when are you setting up that new Yahoo? :)