Yesterday the Yahoo! executive who reportedly oversaw Flickr resigned from Yahoo! according to TechCrunch. It was also reported yesterday that Yahoo has now retained Goodby, Silverstein and Partners to somehow try and recover from their failing marketing campaign. While Yahoo censors paintings of classical nudes from public museums, their employees are off getting public lap dances at Yahoo “Hack Day.” How can Yahoo seriously expect us to accept their $100 million marketing big lie that "the internet is under new management, yours," when they carelessly and maliciously destroy customer data without so much as a warning? Yahoo’s new $100 million marketing campaign should not read "the internet is under new management yours." It should read "the internet is under new management ours." - Thomas Hawk

Nice post Thomas. Although I do not necessarily agree with all of the recent negativity about Yahoo! in the recent weeks, I do agree with a lot of the issues, especially the deletion of accounts etc.. It is good to see that there seems to be some hope that they turn it around for the better again. We shall see... - Mike Hellers

I don't think all Yahoo is bad Mike, I'm probably still smarting over the fact that they nuked the one group on Flickr where I was super active, DMU (which has now moved to friendfeed), and that they refuse to consider reforming their practice of nuking groups and user accounts without warning or allowing photographers to self correct what they see as TOS/CG problems. Destroying a group of over 3,000 with over 5,000 threads, without warning, was uncalled for. As was Heather Champ's crowing about "I hate your freedom" while they did it. I'm unlikely to get over that anytime soon I'm afraid. Yahoo needs to seriously examine their content deletion problems on Flickr and not simply dismiss their users whose data is destroyed. - Thomas Hawk

Wonder if the outage yesterday had anything to do with him leaving? - Andrew Smith

Are you able to comment on what's up at Zooomr Thomas? At this point I don't intend to renew my Flickr Pro account and Zooomr was on my list however there doesn't seem to be much development going on there anymore. - Kenton

Kenton, I'm not sure what Kristopher is doing at Zooomr right now. He'd be better positioned to answer any questions about development there than I would at present. - Thomas Hawk

Thanks Thomas I wasn't sure if you were still involved much there or not. - Kenton

Kenton, there is a new version of Zooomr in development (it was being translated to English from Japanese last I heard) called Zest, but I don't know when it will be released. I think he intends to send it to beta first. - Celine Chamberlin

I noticed that Celine. Just wasn't sure if it was the "next" Zooomr or an additional product. Thanks for the info. - Kenton