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When I logged into my Flickr account today, I noticed a new message from flickr telling me to associate my account with a Yahoo ID. Of course I don’t have a Yahoo ID, at least I didn’t 10 minutes ago when I wasn’t required to get a new login for my flickr account.

This will piss a lot of people off. I’m not mad, just annoyed. I like keeping the logins I have to remember to a bare minimum. I never use Yahoo, but since Yahoo owns flickr I guess I do now. Below is a comment from an old skool flickr user. You can read more remarks like the one below Here

I’m sure that the Flickr staff love their creation. But they love the big fat check that Yahoo gave to them much more. They didn’t make Flickr as a labor of love, they made it hit the startup lottery (which they did, admirably I might add). That doesn’t mean that they don’t care about their creation, but don’t kid yourselves into thinking that because you helped build it by being early adopters and advocates that they really care about you. This is clearly about money; saving money on maintenance, and making money off of advertising.

My sites are currently hosted with 1and1 which is pretty cheap when it comes to hosting, but their reliability is not the best. I’ve experienced very laggy servers and downtime with them lately. Anybody out there have a good managed or dedicated host they can recommend?

I got this idea from Garret Dimon. So leave a comment and let me know who you are, what you do, and where you are from, plus any other information you want to add!

The first miss for Apple’s new iPhone is not allowing 3rd-party apps on the device. I can live with this for now, but I would hope that eventually Apple will open the iPhone up to developers.

You can read more cons of the iPhone at Engadget.com. I still want one and it will probably take alot for me to not want one.

Apple introduced the iPhone today at a keynote speech and I am giddy as a school girl. This thing is amazing. This is what I have been looking for in a phone for years, but no one has ever got it right.

iPod / Phone / Internet Communicator
Check it out @ www.apple.com/iphone

Rootly is an online news aggregation service that like Google news brings together major and small new sources on the web into one place. Rootly is pulling from over 1,000 news sources.

It has a clean interface with not much clutter to get in the way of you and your news. My favorite feature on the site is the “news ticker” on the right side which automagically scrolls in new stories.

Check it out at Rootly.com.