Yahoo! Picks Up KitCam and PhotoForge To Strengthen Flickr
KitCam and PhotoForge have long been favorite apps of many iPhone photographers – sadly these apps are no longer available or at least currently available in the Apple App store as Yahoo! has acquired the developers – GhostBird.
Ever since Flickr upgraded their photo sharing site they’ve been on the look out to offer more, they were seriously lacking in the photo editing space and by picking up PhotoForge they can fill that niche very nicely. KitCam too is/was a fabulous filter app, so it looks like the entire GhostBird portfolio and their team have been gobbled up. We have requested additional information and at soon as that’s forthcoming we’ll let you know!
If you’re still running KitCam and PhotoForge on your device, bear in mind that if you delete it now, you will not be able to reload it. Also, of course, you cannot make any additional in-app purchases or receive any customer support – but we’ll keep you informed on all of this.
Marissa Mayer – CEO of Yahoo!
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
4 Comments
Twinkletoes
Bummer – I just bought PhotoForge2 last month.
Helder
I am hoping that Yahoo plans to follow the example set by Google’s acquisition of Snapseed by releasing free and enhanced versions of KitCam and PhotoForge in a few months. Taking these products off the App Store may be their attempt to avoid the minor black eye that Google faced on the Internet when they continued to charge users for the old version of Snapseed up until the free version was announced.
Mike
Hey! This looks like a good thing. If they go the way of google the apps will just become free! Anything is better than those lame filters currently in the Flickr app.
Robert Lancaster
Very interesting!
The Yahoo refocus is certainly good for the photographic world.