{"id":3428,"date":"2008-02-05T09:01:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T15:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2008-02-05T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T15:01:39","slug":"microsoft-wants-to-take-over-flickr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/microsoft-wants-to-take-over-flickr\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft wants to take over Flickr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I heard lots of news about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\">Microsoft<\/a> wanting to buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\">Yahoo<\/a> over the weekend.<br \/>\nAnd while I&#8217;m not a huge fan of Microsoft by any means I didn&#8217;t think too much of it at the time. After all &#8220;I don&#8217;t use Yahoo &#8211; I usually stick with Google.&#8221;<br \/>\nBut a post by <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/229080496\/\">Lifehacker<\/a> today made me rethink that.<\/p>\n<p>I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\">Flickr<\/a> religiously &#8211; a company now owned by Yahoo.<br \/>\nI use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.del.icio.us\">del.icio.us<\/a> now religiously as well &#8211; another company now owned by Yahoo.<br \/>\nI also play fantasy football on Yahoo.<\/p>\n<p>Wait a minute &#8211; I don&#8217;t want Microsoft having ANY say in my online pictures and bookmarks or fantasy football!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_acquisitions_by_Yahoo%21\">Click here <\/a>for a list of other companies Yahoo now owns that would be owned by Microsoft if the acquisition goes through.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I heard lots of news about Microsoft wanting to buy Yahoo over the weekend. And while I&#8217;m not a huge fan of Microsoft by any means I didn&#8217;t think too much of it at the time. After all &#8220;I don&#8217;t use Yahoo &#8211; I usually stick with Google.&#8221; But a post by Lifehacker &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/microsoft-wants-to-take-over-flickr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft wants to take over Flickr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[433,640,143,601],"class_list":["post-3428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-techno","tag-delicious","tag-flickr","tag-microsoft","tag-yahoo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Ti","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}