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Here’s the second installment of my News category/series/daily thingy. Feel free to respond to any of the news items in the comments.

• Yahoo drops photo service, videos coming to Flickr - Yahoo! announced that they will kill their photo service in favor Flickr, which they bought in 2005. Also, videos will be coming to Flickr soon! I have always thought of YouTube as the Flickr of videos, so this is a bit of a surprise to me, but I expect the Flickr with videos to be much more intuitive than YouTube. (Not that YouTube isn’t great)
• Spider-Man scores only 61% on RT - Nooo!!! The 3rd Spider-Man movie is getting mediocre reviews. Only 61% of reviewers liked it as tallied by Rotten Tomatoes, which is still certified “Fresh,” but barely. The first two installments each got above 90%. That’s way too bad. After the success of Spider-Man 2, I was expecting another success.
• No more Pandora for non-US listeners - Yeah, free speech is great and all - but this is one of those times when I’m really glad to be an American.
• A Greener Apple - Looks like Apple is finally listening to Greenpeace (great site) and making their computers… well, greener. How much do you want to bet there will be a special edition green iPod? I mean, they have a Harry Potter, U2, and (Product) Red iPod Nano, so that’s not that far-fetched.
• Digg chooses the people over corporations - Digg has decided NOT to delete postings of illegal HD-DVD encryption codes, despite receiving a cease-and-desist letter. Good for them. I like how Cnet puts it: The revolution will be posted.
• Only 5 seasons of Lost - More is really less. (Or less is more, same thing) Now that Lost it’s (almost) official that Lost will end after 5 seasons I can finally breathe. There is an ending. The writers will be able to plan out the mysteries and (doubtful, but hopeful) answers. With only 2 seasons left to go, the writers might be able to make these past two seasons slightly comprehensible. (Fingers crossed)