Free Flickr Pro Account for Yahoo! Photos Users

Yahoo’s decision to close down Yahoo Photos seems to have disappointed many users. Now, Yahoo wants to bring back smiles on their faces and encourage them to migrate to Yahoo-owned Flickr by giving them 3-months of free Flickr Pro account.

“June 17, 2007 – 3 months of Pro Account status fell from the sky on to You (a gift from Flickr to say thanks!) – $0.00.”

A regular Flickr users has a 100 MB monthly upload limit, 3 sets and photostream are limited to just 200 most recent images, whereas Flickr Pro account have no restrictions on uploads, sets, photostream and more.

Sounds like a moderately fair incentive for Yahoo Photo users to migrate to their photos to Flickr Pro Account, which would otherwise cost $24.95 per year (hence, a value of $6.23). If Flickr isn’t your choice, there are other similar services which provide incentives: Shutterfly (a free 8×8 inch photo book), Kodak Gallery (Get 20 free 4×6 inch prints) or Snapfish (Get 50 free 4×6–inch prints)

In other Flickr-Yahoo news, Yahoo has dropped PayPal as a payment option for Flickr Pro accounts. Instead, they want you to use Yahoo! Wallet, which lets you add PayPal account, but only if you have a credit card or a debit card attached as an alternate funding method in your wallet. This news comes as a disappointment to many International Flickr Pro users, who don’t have a credit card. Discussions on Flickr forum, indicate that the users don’t seem to be very happy about this change either.

source : techBuzz