The Cost of Free, continued: Flickr Hit Hard By Yahoo Layoffs

Om Malik:

Yahoo layoffs have started and seem to have hit the Flickr team. Many engineers from the service have been either laid off or are leaving on their own. Rev Dan Catt, Ashot Petrosian and Neil Kandalgaonkar were amongst those who tweeted about their exits. Catt for instance is moving back to UK. I am told Cal Henderson, Flickr Architect- a rock star developer also left, though I have not been able to confirm that. His name is missing from Flickr's about page, but I don't want to jump to conclusions.

I dropped Henderson an email to confirm. He emailed back this morning. "I have left Flickr/Yahoo. I don't have any plans yet, besides playing lots of video games and enjoying the san francisco summer," he wrote back. Kara Swisher says Cal is working with Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr on a new stealthy start-up.