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 While it is no surprise that Yahoo started announcing the layoffs of between 600-700 people this week (the

As you may know, Yahoo has cut over 600 jobs. The company's popular photo sharing service Flickr looks to be among the Yahoo properties directly affected by this.

Although this fact isn't likely to earn Yahoo a government bailout, it seems that Flickr can count the Library of Congress among its fans.  An experiment the Library was conducting has turned out far better than anyone expected.

Improved Contacts Management - Flickr Blog Yesterday Flickr released a revamped version of your "Your Contacts" page on Flickr.

At a time when Yahoo is struggling through job cuts, failed Google deals, and rejected ideas of the company still getting offers from Microsoft, at least one Yahoo property - Flickr - got

Yahoo! Inc. - Getty Images and Flickr Announce Exclusive Partnership to Offer New Collection of Creative Imagery Getty Images and Yahoo today announced a partnership which will allow Getty Images to begin marketing select images that Flickr users upload online.

Here's the less exciting side of a new development: Flickr users aren't being given any choice other than to go about their business as usual.  But on the more interesting front: Getty Images will begin swooping in to offer some of them commercial opportunities.

I just spotted a fantastic enhancement to FriendFeed via Raoul Pop. Raoul requested that FriendFeed include the photos that you fave on Flickr...