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Speculation in technology circles that Yahoo might close or sell Flickr, its photo-sharing service, prompted an emphatic denial this month."Is Yahoo committed to Flickr?" Blake Irving, Yahoo's product chief, wrote in a message on Twitter. "Hell yes we are!"The confusion over Flickr's future was perhaps understandable. Yahoo had recently disclosed plans to shut down or otherwise dispose of several other Web products, including the bookmarking service Delicious, and some users feared Flickr would be next.