Yahoo! Photos Introduces Dynamic New Web-Based Photo Sharing Experience

New Yahoo! Photos Beta Redefines Photo Sharing With Drag-and-Drop Organization, Photo Tagging and Enhanced Interaction for Family and Friends

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2006--Yahoo! Photos, the No. 1 online photo sharing site worldwide(1), today unveiled an entirely new photo sharing experience. The limited beta launch of the all new Yahoo! Photos (http://photos.yahoo.com) marks the most dramatic upgrade to the product since Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) initially launched the service in 2000. Designed to make it easier for people to enjoy and share their growing photo collections with family and friends, the new Yahoo! Photos is a Web-based product that offers desktop-like functionality including drag-and-drop organization, tagging, comments and advanced search capabilities.

"The new Yahoo! Photos is a next generation service that introduces innovations from across the Yahoo! network -- like tagging, search, and comments -- to a mainstream audience of thirty million and counting," said Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo!'s senior vice president of communications, community and front doors. "The new Yahoo! Photos will change the way millions of people enjoy their pictures. The new features and redesigned interface make photo management more efficient so people spend less time maintaining their collections and more time viewing and sharing them with family and friends."

New community-based features foster greater user interaction in ways that weren't possible before, including the ability to comment, rate and tag family and friends' photos. People can now exchange comments on shared pictures, add tags to help organize each other's photos, and rate them for simple searching. Also, deep integration across the Yahoo! network, including Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Mobile and 360, gives users a universally accessible location where they can view photos that family and friends have shared.

Highlights Include:

• Drag-and-drop functionality for easy organization and photo sharing
• Photo tagging -- or labeling -- for easy viewing and searching
• Enhanced interaction with friends and family with ability to share comments and provide instantaneous access to photos
• Point-and-click tag and caption editing
• Smart Albums that detect newly tagged photos and automatically add tagged photos to albums
• Open APIs to encourage third-party use and collaboration
• Integration with leading Yahoo! services, including Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Mobile and 360
• Downloadable high-resolution photos

The Yahoo! Photos beta is currently in a testing phase, available to a limited group of U.S. Yahoo! Photos users. Users worldwide will be admitted into the beta in the coming months.

About Yahoo Photos!
As the No. 1 photo sharing service worldwide, Yahoo! Photos (http://photos.yahoo.com) makes it easy to enjoy, share and preserve memories. Users can order professional quality prints online for pick-up at a local Target store within one hour, place ship-to-home orders or order personalized photo gifts such as photo stamps, books and cards. A free service with unlimited storage, Yahoo! Photos is the most complete photo sharing service and includes deep integration across the Yahoo! network through leading services such as Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Mobile and 360.

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(1) Source: Yahoo! Photos is the leading online photo service worldwide approximately 30 million unique monthly visitors worldwide (comScore World Metrix).