Yahoo + Target = Offline Flickr

Odd news on the Yahoo/Flickr front. Yahoo as you may know recently bought Flickr, a service I have been a very big fan of since it first came out. Yahoo has now entered into a parternship with Target to make digital photos printable and able to be picked up at the nearest Target store about an hour later. Awesome, right?

Yes, it is awesome. I can take a picture with my digital camera, run it through this service, buy a print of it, and go pick it up an hour later. No need to buy a fancy photo printer for my house and continually buy more ink. A service similar to this that I had not heard of until this story broke already exists with Google's Picasa and Wal-Mart (further proving Wired's story). I'm glad to see some competetition in a market like this. Either way, this service with Yahoo and Target will all take place using the existing Yahoo Photos website, and that is the downfall for me.

What I really want to know is why Yahoo isn't adding this new service into Flickr, making it an even better photo sharing site. It would be awesome to be able to easily click on someone else's image, purchase a copy of it, and go pick it up an hour later at Target. Why would Yahoo not add this new service into an existing database of millions of user photos?

To me this screams as an instant business model for Flickr. Your pleasing users by making their experience better, and you're making some more cash for the company. Come on Yahoo, make my Flickr experience even more awesome than it is now.

Tags: Flickr, Yahoo, Target