Yahoo! Shutdowns its Jumpcut

Posted at April 22, 2009

Yahoo! has offered its Video uploading, editing, and sharing service to enhance its Yahoo! Video by acquiring Jumpcut in 2006, a company based in San Fransisco. Being almost three years in beta version under Yahoo, it is confirmed that Jumpcut won't be in a full released version. Since Yahoo's intent to shutdown its service and integrate to a well-known imaging service, Flickr. Whatever it is, sure, though decision which Yahoo has decided to move safe in this tough economic condition. Here is the copy from Jumpcut for the user which i received several days ago:

Dear Jumpcut user,

After careful consideration, we will be officially closing the Jumpcut.com site on June 15, 2009. This was a difficult decision to make, but it's part of the ongoing prioritization efforts at Yahoo!

Very soon, we'll be releasing a software utility that will allow you to download the movies you created on Jumpcut to your computer. We'll send instructions to this email address when the download utility is available.

Once you download your movies, you may choose to upload them to another site such as Flickr, which now allows video uploads.

Thanks for your understanding and thanks for being a part of Jumpcut.

The Jumpcut Team

Okay, i think Flickr and Delicious will be the main consideration of Yahoo now since the jumpcut will join other shutdowned service like Yahoo! MyWeb (Social Bookmarking) and Yahoo! Briefcase (File Sharing Service) on this year.