All about the patents baby

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So Yahoo claims Facebook is infringing on 10 - 20 patents. Does this affect Facebook going public?

Facebook is big and innovative but shouldn’t be stealing ideas.

Articles -

Yahoo story - http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/yahoo-warns-facebook-of-a-potential-patent-fight/?partner=yahoofinance

Facebook response - http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/28/technology/facebook_yahoo/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote

AllthingsD Kara twist on the story - http://allthingsd.com/20120228/so-its-the-kodak-strategy-for-yahoo-the-last-refuge-of-the-vaguely-talented/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker

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Yahoo trying to stay relevant?

I didn’t see them list the technologies they claimed were stolen?

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Yahoo is trying to do anything to get themselves in the news as the company is losing money fast and just has no direction or technologies that are worthwhile.

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Listen man… their fantasy football is clearly in the top 5 on the market :danny:

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Yahoo still has a huge user base who use their home page/email.

I didn’t realize they picked up Flickr either

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yeah, they’ve had flickr for a while…which I hate because they linked my account with some yahoo account that I can never remember the login info for. Pain in my ass.

Not going to affect facebook at all, except for some amount of royalties I’m sure…That is until they re-code whatever is infringing.

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Yahoo is the touch of death, lol.

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I am a big fan of Yahoo even though I work for them.

Yahoo is a huge company and I believe they are not done, being to big is their main issue. I believe their stock is under value.

Yahoo is the top in news/media/entertainment (reason for abc partnership), fantasy sports, sport writers (puck daddy), mail (most users in the world), finance, and development tools.

Yahoo quit the search competition, reason why they partnered with Microsoft and Microsoft pays Yahoo for that.

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yahoo has the most users in the world? Or the most unused junk mail accounts in the world?

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he he, I never said active users but user accounts as a whole :smiley: Hotmail is the largest in North America.

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Fixed that for you.

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lol I agree

I went to sign up and realized it was a Yahoo product then found an alternative

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Hasn’t it been that way for some time? That’s the reason I stay with Picasa, I was looking at using flikr, and didn’t for the same reasons.

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Picasa, back when I gave it a shot in 08/09 was really doing a lot of image compression and I was also unable to successfully hotlink photos to car forums. So I stopped using it. I wonder if they’ve made improvements.

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I was just going to pay $30 a year or whatever for smugmug

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!

How many of these companies do people still use?

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Well tech companies often buy companies and roll their functions into different products.

So that isn’t really a fair way to measure

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I really hate these patent lawsuits. Especially any of the ones Apple initiates…but that is a different entity all together. There has to be a better way to manage these patents so their usable throughout the community.

On the note of flickr:
last year…well Dec of '10 I bought the premium flickr account (~$35 for a year) I uploaded every photo of mine I could find for backup purposes. The interface in flickr isn’t that great, and linking to photos is not that easy either. Well, a year had lapsed and my Pro account was no longer active which I knew and was fine with. Unfortunately, while they are still there, you CANNOT view all of the photos you uploaded, only some of them. Unless of course you renew your Pro account. Kinda shitty. I uploaded the hi-res photos I had, and even though I had a pro account, I couldn’t link to the full size image. Walker ran into this in another thread as well.

Photobucket is a lot better with linking and I like it better so I’ll probably get their premium account and move my photos there.

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Here is just a few

GeoCities is Yahoo Small Business.
Maktoob is used a lot.
Monster has hotjobs now.
IntoNow is big and popular

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Yes, you are correct, you can only view a certain number of photos of your premium account when you don’t renew. It sucks but it makes sense, why should you get full permission to your stuff when you converted to a premium account and never renew. Yes the pics are your property but your property has been uploaded to a service that you no longer subscribe too.

I tried using flickr and ended up hating it because it is not an easy interface and prefer photobucket too…

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For what it’s worth, Fotki is pretty nice and reasonably priced for photo storage… and I use that to hotlink photos for NYSpeed occasionally.

I’ve also used my public Dropbox to hotlink images on forums, that works pretty well when you want to do it quickly.