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Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Serial Key, 2011: three:15 PM ETNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It truly is any Flickr addict's worst nightmare: A single day, the huge photograph archive you have uploaded and annotated for a long time all of a sudden vanishes. It took place this week to Mirco Wilhelm, when a Flickr workers member accidentally deleted his five-year previous account, wiping out four,
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Office 2010 Professional Product Key, Flickr's parent corporation, confirmed the accident and said that that Wilhelm would receive 25 decades of free Flickr Pro membership. "Our teams are in touch with the member and are currently working hard to try to restore the contents of his account," Yahoo's spokesman said. "We are also actively working on a process that will allow us to easily restore deleted accounts and will roll this functionality out soon."Wilhelm told CNNMoney that issues over deleted Flickr accounts and data are nothing new, but his case was unique. "The issues with deleted account and content have been popping up frequently over the many years, mostly based on complaints about content or copyright topics," he wrote in an e-mail. But he's never before heard of a user account being completely wiped out by mistake."Single support workers members getting able to delete all account data without review and chance to undo actions is pretty scary for anyone," he said.The Flickr debacle comes amid growth scrutiny of Yahoo's stewardship of your photograph sharing site it acquired in 2005. The site is an individual with the largest photo archives on the Web, with 50 million members uploading more than 4 million pictures each day, according to Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500). But Yahoo has been trimming its product portfolio and shaving its staff. The small business reduce it is global workforce by 4% recently and killed Buzz, an experimental community-driven news curation site. A leaked internal webcast from Yahoo Chief Product Officer Blake Irving in December displayed a list of services set for "sunset." The roster included some cult favorites AltaVista, Yahoo Bookmarks and Delightful. So when it comes to Flickr, some are questioning Yahoo's commitment to the site and whether it will continue to expand. A recent discussion thread on Silicon Valley Q&A site Quora directly asked: "Has Yahoo driven Flickr into the ground?" Ex-Flickr employee Cris Stoddard chimed in with a mixed view. The site has benefited from Yahoo's resources,
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