14 DAY TRIAL // Yahoo is the company that owns the giant portal with millions of visitors every day and with a world class reputation that is continuously attracting users to the company. Although Yahoo is often identified through its portal, the company is more than a single website offering products in multiple categories. The search engine provided by Yahoo is a powerful rival for Google, the firm that owns the best search technology on the internet. It also provides multiple other solutions that are meant to challenge the ones developed by several companies such as Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Sponsored Search or even Yahoo Bookmarks.
Some time ago, Yahoo acquired Flickr, a photo service that allows you to upload your photos and share them with your friends or other members of the community. It helps you organize the pictures on albums or by different criteria and publish them on your blog or another website using a direct link. Today, the company announced the first interoperability between Yahoo and Flickr, saying that you can now login to the photo service using the Yahoo account.
"In an e-mail to users, Flickr said founding members, known as "old skool" users, would have to switch to "simplify the sign in process". Many, including Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, have left negative comments on the company's forum. "I like being Old Skool. Please reconsider!" he said. Others echoed his sentiments. "I don't like yahoo and I don't like my Yahoo account," Flickr user Joe Philipson said on the forum. "I take pride in being an old skool member," he said.
A common concern was over log-in persistence; under the old skool scheme, users could enter their details once and save them onto a computer forever, however Yahoo services often require users to log-in more often," BBC News reported.
The decision of using the same Yahoo ID for the Flickr accounts seems to be inspired by Google that introduced it some time ago when the company decided to allow clients to login into several non-Google products using a search giant account.