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Yahoo Acquires Photo Startup Cooliris

38 points by coloneltcb 12y ago

dude81 12y ago
What is Yahoo doing anything own, other than acquiring companies?
- riffraff 12y ago
  someone in the recent mozilla-will-use-yahoo-search thread mentioned that they are going to release a significant upgrade to their search tech. Also, Yahoo! Mail is not the one you might remember form a decade ago, it's rather nice.
Philadelphia 12y ago
Is an eight-year-old company still a startup? I vaguely recall CoolIris having a plugin for the old Mozilla suite.
- umeshunni 12y ago
  Similarly, is a company without any growth still a startup? (ref: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html)
w1ntermute 12y ago
> More recently, the company focus shifted to a mobile app...that allowed users to browse photos from across services like Facebook, Flickr, and Dropbox. Does anyone know whether this is a violation of those services' TOSes, and if so, how they got around it?
- hayksaakian 12y ago
  these services all provide APIs for viewing their data. as long as they are within those terms i don't see what's wrong.
lambda1969 12y ago
Coolpreviews is one of my most indespensable browsing extensions and a major reason why I prefer Firefox to the alternatives. I hope they continue the project and/or alternatives appear http://www.coolpreviews.com/ http://www.coolpreviews.com/
- grimgrin 12y ago
  Mozilla just formed a partnership with Yahoo, but I don't know if that says anything about the life of Coolpreviews https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-and-innovation-on-the-web/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-an...
- sk55 12y ago
  I use hoverzoom for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom/nonjdcjchghhkdoolnlbekcfllmednbl?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom/nonjdcj...
bby 12y ago
Dang. Cooliris kind of faded off into non-exisence.
bhc 12y ago
Can Yahoo and Google please stop shutting down services of start-ups they acquire?
presty 12y ago
any yahoo insider wants to share with us how all these acquihires are working out?
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38 points by coloneltcb 12y ago

dude81 12y ago

What is Yahoo doing anything own, other than acquiring companies?

riffraff 12y ago
someone in the recent mozilla-will-use-yahoo-search thread mentioned that they are going to release a significant upgrade to their search tech. Also, Yahoo! Mail is not the one you might remember form a decade ago, it's rather nice.

Philadelphia 12y ago

Is an eight-year-old company still a startup? I vaguely recall CoolIris having a plugin for the old Mozilla suite.

umeshunni 12y ago
Similarly, is a company without any growth still a startup? (ref: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html)

w1ntermute 12y ago

> More recently, the company focus shifted to a mobile app...that allowed users to browse photos from across services like Facebook, Flickr, and Dropbox. Does anyone know whether this is a violation of those services' TOSes, and if so, how they got around it?

hayksaakian 12y ago
these services all provide APIs for viewing their data. as long as they are within those terms i don't see what's wrong.

lambda1969 12y ago

Coolpreviews is one of my most indespensable browsing extensions and a major reason why I prefer Firefox to the alternatives. I hope they continue the project and/or alternatives appear http://www.coolpreviews.com/ http://www.coolpreviews.com/

grimgrin 12y ago
Mozilla just formed a partnership with Yahoo, but I don't know if that says anything about the life of Coolpreviews https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-and-innovation-on-the-web/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-an...
sk55 12y ago
I use hoverzoom for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom/nonjdcjchghhkdoolnlbekcfllmednbl?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom/nonjdcj...

bby 12y ago

Dang. Cooliris kind of faded off into non-exisence.

bhc 12y ago

Can Yahoo and Google please stop shutting down services of start-ups they acquire?

presty 12y ago

any yahoo insider wants to share with us how all these acquihires are working out?

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