sharing photos, blogs, and searching for them

A lot of activity in the M&A market.

• IAC/InterActiveCorp bought Ask Jeeves for US$1.8 billion
• Flickr has just been bought by Yahoo
• Snapfish has just been bought by HP
• LiveJournal has been bought by Six Apart.

What do they have in common? Easy, free, sharing of information:

photos (flikr, snapfish, and to an extent, HP)
blogging (Livehournal, Six Apart), and
search (Yahoo, Ask Jeeves)

It's my feeling that in the near future, a lot of these photo sharing sites will merge. The services will still be free, but we'll see more and more premium services being offered.