The rumor mill can move on. Done deal, Yahoo! has acquired Ludicorp. Let's hope they see a better fate than Blogger.
Now's a good time for me to get off a few cheap shots on Flickr though, ;-/. One, what's up with an XML-RPC API where every response is an XML-RPC string of the REST API response? No wonder no one uses the XML-RPC API. Lame.
Two. Annotations are FotoNotes on the surface, but downloaded photos don't have the annotation data embedded in the metadata headers.
Nits though. Those fine folks have been doing good work, making photos of the Web. Expecting more good things to come...