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Flickr sucks; why isn't Google taking advantage of this?

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Google. A bottomless pit of bandwidth and storage space, and quite a few bucks in the bank. Yahoo. Struggling to survive, and resources certainly nowhere near what Google has available. So why is it that Yahoo's Flickr photo hosting service offers unlimited space to users at $25/year, while Google's Picasa caps you at 10GB for $20/year? Something doesn't seem right.

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FeedBurner: The blogger's latest whipping boy

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There's been a lot of grumbling about FeedBurner lately. The service, which provides statistics and ad injections for website feeds, was purchased back in mid-2007 by Google. After about a year of mostly ignoring the service, Google finally began integrating it with the rest of their other services. And here's where the trouble begins.

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