Yahoo swallows Flickr

While I was busy trying to configure my phone to work with Flickr's email publishing technique to my blog (duh?), Yahoo was busy buying the company. It's pretty official here on the Flickrblog. Too bad Loic didn't invest in it when he was offered a business angel opportunity. Esther Dyson and Joi Ito did invest though.

Anyways, my hunch that flickr was going to be bought real quick was good (I made it less than 3 months ago), although - without any background check - I had predicted Google would be the buyer, quickly to be corrected by another blogger pointing that they already had Picasa...

I had written though:

"Unless SixApart gobbles up Flickr, and sells its equity to Yahoo? That would be a quick exit for Esthr and Joi ;)"

So who's buying up SixApart these days huh ?

ps: my first post about Flickr was last september. And... I put up the zeitgeist to the right before knowing about the sale...