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Breaking: Photobucket Acquired By MySpace

mashable.com — It’s the deal you never thought would happen: MySpace acquiring Photobucket, the “parasite” that fed off MySpace traffic and hosted a massive number of MySpace photos. There’s no word on whether the $300M price tag was met.

Who dugg this? Made popular May 7, 2007

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  • jmkiii, on 10/12/2007, -2/+109Stop it with the "Breaking" already!
  • BritishGolgo13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+88I has a bucket. Noooo! They be stealin' my bucket!
  • colouredlights, on 10/12/2007, -3/+85I bet PhotoBucket is excited to gain access to MySpace's incredible technology, like being able to search your friends list only by their login email address, and not their name or username.
  • nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+70I'm looking forward to MyBucketSpace
  • KarbonKopy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+43So is photobucket going to redo it's page to include myspace's arse backwards html technology too? How about crappy servers? Pfttt....
  • mrwiggles123, on 10/12/2007, -5/+42I really liked photobucket to.... :(
  • quomen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35Seriously, breaking implies that we would actually give a sh*t.
  • meepus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30Is there any reason why I might get dugg down for providing pertinent information like 'THIS DEAL HAS NOT YET BEEN CONFIRMED BY EITHER COMPANY'?

    ...other than use of capslock in this comment, or the OP wanting to silence me in order to incur more ad revenue from his blog...

    No?

    Then WTF?
  • PunkRampant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27If myspace has that much money why aren't they using it to buy better servers and hire better designers? This is ridiculous.
  • meepus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25dugg because I thought this was actually confirmed, buried when I found out that it wasn't.

    as a long time photobucket user... I'm praying it didn't happen. I deleted my myspace a year ago...
  • blachole, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Another decent company goes down the drain.
  • Easty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Its logo could be a walrus.
  • MikeOSX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12flickr?
  • AshFire87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12TinyPic is owned by Photobucket.
  • Blisshead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Anyone have a recommendation for a MyBucketSpace alternative?

    If it happens, I'll need something else.
  • charmander, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I wonder if anything will change with its integration with livejournal
  • kidjay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7flickr sucks compared to photobucket? hm. maybe not for kids on myspace, but for professional photographers, there is no alternative.
  • kahrn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8picasaweb?

    http://picasaweb.google.com

  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9"It’s the deal you never thought would happen"
    Don't insult my intelligence.
  • Takfam, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11 I think in this case, the story says "Breaking" as in "Broken HTML." Which is most certainly going to be a part of Photobucket now that Myspace has its crappy designers on the job.

    Ho hum, I never liked bandwidth-quota-bucket anyway.
  • Authustian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6News Corp, trying harder to own web 2.0 everyday....

    Is anyone worried that they someday might start cracking down on the users that try to share, what would be to them, inconvenient information?
  • TexanPsycho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@Atomic1fire: It's the comedic value that MyBucketSpace has in it's name.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6whatever, I like imageshack better.
  • mrwiggles123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Imageshack.us i guess, but it wont be as good
  • dogshaft, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5hdtvdust, I think it's your computer/connection that's the problem, not digg.
  • Szandor, on 10/12/2007, -10/+14Breaking: "Breaking" In Title Automatically Gets Buried
  • blumenth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4BREAKING: Unsubstantiated rumor climbs Digg rankings.
  • thomn8r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Dug down for the 'breaking' *****
  • mbps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35 people?

    According to http://photobucket.com/about_us/about_us.php , they have 60 employees.
  • patrickloggins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@bobcrotch

    ...you're kidding, right?
  • TexanPsycho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Parasite in the same sentence as MySpace and MySpace isn't it?
  • dragongrrl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2
    oh noes!!!11!!

    you wouldn't think they could wedge more ads into photobucket, but i'm sure Rupert will FIND A WAY!

    adblock is a godsend, but sometimes you're stuck with IE (like at the office) and you're HOSED
  • grayapple, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wonder how this will effect the photobucket aggrement with Bebo.com?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4BREAKING: WIND
  • Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@biggeek
    http://digg.com/security/ImageShack_founder_violates_his_company_s_privacy_TOS_Why_Just_for_fun
    Ill stick with the one my aol(zooomr) or yahoo(flickr/zooomr) or typekey(zooomr) accounts work with
    as I know zooomr is not popular but its still letting me use my choice of login provider
    and flickr because of convience since I allready have a yahoo account why not use the one that is popular but accessable
  • specialK16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The web is turning into big places eating small places.
  • Branden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can you confirm that? What you posted is just speculation.
  • nick34, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"My bucket's got a hole in it" - Hank Williams
  • TheGrandGeneral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if only they would get rid of those annoying True.com Ads...
  • scribebox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1imageshack.us + imagebot (firefox extension) = magic :)

    -scribe
  • stisev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"TinyPic is owned by Photobucket."

    Oh god, you're kidding right?

    TinyPic and TinyURL were my favorite sites. god dammit!
  • derekivey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Please say this isn't true. I liked using Photobucket. :(
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i thought myspace just expanded how many photos you could have. I had to see photobucket go =( *likes the photobucket* It makes posting photos easy with the html code under the pics. Very convenient
  • ashlvsya, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Breaking" this breaking trend....
  • Lkr721993, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1RIP my Photobucket account.
  • julian02392, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1kill me D:
  • bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1w00t

    Pub Scanning Time!!
  • c0ldfusi0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Aw, crap. I hope the MySpace team won't recode it because if they do, it's really gonna suck.
  • TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"I'm not defending myspace here, but you can search for people using all three criteria."

    Yeah and the Internet are a series of tubes
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