It has been announced today on techcrunch that Myspace has acquired photobucket.com for $300 million. That’s three hundred million dollars for a site that hosts images (mostly for myspace users anyway.) Don’t get me wrong, photobucket is great. It’s free, it’s used a lot (top 10 alexa, I think,) and is quite friendly (never heard of people kicked out due to too much bandwidth usage.) BUT — it completely lacks the creativity of flickr, which I’m fond of. Flickr was acquired by Yahoo a while back for a ridiculously low amount. As far as I know, only estimation has been made public, but it was well below the $50 million. Flickr has loyal registered users (at least 8 million of us, each pays $24 a year!) while photobucket is all about people with 69 suffix to their nickname and glittering gif animatios (yuck!). Flickr is recognized as mother and father of the modern web (aleck web 2.0) and every comparison I will make between these two websites will be in favor for flickr.
So it’s sad (for me) that it wasn’t the other way around. I would have liked to see Cal Henderson (L) swim in a pool of golden coins like Scrooge McDuck! 
Well, gotta be positive though. At least the buyout Yahoo didn’t go as planned, and I’m not a Microsftr Photr Sharingr user.
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