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Yahoo Inc. is shutting down Yahoo Photos, an online photo storage site, and asking users to move instead to its Web 2.0 photo sharing site, Flickr, a Yahoo official said.

In June, tens of millions of registered users of Yahoo Photos will be notified of various options including upgrading to Yahoo's Flickr service or various outside-photo storage sites, according to Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield.

Mobile 3G Social Networking being the real goldmine that should be looked at much more closely - given much more press than it has.

What's the future? 3G Social Networking applications are worth more, today, than MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Bebo, Second Life, Worlds of Warcraft, Skype etc!

The story, is about people - and what we are - A "we species" - human beings are highly social and are built to be so. But industrialisation, mass-consumption, mass-media - although providing us with greater prosperity - denied us some of our fundamental rights as people.

Startup Technopreneurs have had a tough time to market themselves, marketing budgets are always minimal, and so are the skills in sales and marketing, and nor they have the right contacts with decision makers. There is some good news for them, Read this blog by Caterina, a very interesting case study of emerging trends in Business Development, http://www.caterina.net/archive/000996.html