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# Yahoo''s Big Week
- URL: https://chrisenns.com/2013/05/yahoos-big-week/
- Published: 2013-05-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-08T23:52:40.000Z
- Author: Chris Enns
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-04-08 17:47, #ichris

First, Yahoo [announced that they've reached an agreement to purchase Tumblr](https://marissamayr.tumblr.com/post/50902274591/im-delighted-to-announce-that-weve-reached-an?ref=chrisenns.com). Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo:

> We promise not to screw it up.

Yahoo has had a bit of a history with screwing up purchases like this - having purchased Geocities back in the day for around a billion dollars as well and then never doing anything with it until they killed it.

And then Flickr, which Yahoo owns, [announced a redesign and new plans for the photo sharing service](https://blog.flickr.net/en/2013/05/20/a-better-brighter-flickr/?ref=chrisenns.com) including a free terabyte of storage for every account:

> We’re giving your photos room to breathe, and you the space to upload a dizzying number of photos and videos, for free. Just how big is a terabyte? Well, you could take a photo every hour for forty years without filling one.

It's kind of like way back when [Google offered a free gigabyte with Gmail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail?ref=chrisenns.com) \- 1 terabyte is so much space right now that it's hard to imagine ever needing it.