Thursday, April 16, 2009
Yahoo’s Jumpcut Pushed Off Cliff (But You Can Send Your Videos to Yahoo’s Flickr!)
You could see this one coming a mile out: After telling users they could not upload new videos late last year, Yahoo is finally shutting down Jumpcut.
“This was a difficult decision to make, but it’s part of the ongoing prioritization efforts at Yahoo!,” said Jumpcut in a note to users today.
That’s code for the stylings of new CEO Carol Bartz, who is hard at work axing many of Yahoo’s similarly lagging services.
The sassy video-editing service was bought by Yahoo in 2006 amid high hopes of the Internet giant becoming a big player in the hot online video market.
That honor, as it turned out, went to YouTube, which was more cats-on-skateboards-oriented than tools-oriented.
