A new Yahoo Photos beta was announced today at Demo. Presenter Will Aldrich said that, to date, this popular service has 3 million unique users — two times its closest competitor — with some two billion photos stored. So, said Aldrich, “What better time to blow up the product and start from scratch?” What the new beta is about is making the UI better, as well as bringing tagging and metadata to the mass audience. Read: building on the success of Flickr, which Yahoo acquired last year. Features mentioned by Aldrich include the introduction of a “smart album” feature, and using photos to initiate IM.

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