Today we are witnessing the amazing Synergy between Flickr and Yahoo come to life. By allowing users to easily drop and dragg photos onto a Yahoo map, the Flickr/Yahoo community is building a resource that competitors like Google and MSN will be hard pressed to match.

Want to know what Huntsville, Alabama looks like? How about a that small town in India? or maybe a tropical resort in Fiji? No problem. There will be thousands of pictures from everywhere in the world beautifully integrated into Yahoo maps.

This is significant because Yahoo maps now has a huge advantage over what Google or MSN will be able to offer for the forseeable future: an advantage that will win both users and search share.

This is just the beginning. Watch for similar improvements based on flickr and their other great 2.0 pickup, del.icio.us. Yahoo’s choice of acquisitions shows that they understand where the web is headed and what to do when it gets there.

So now the question is, will Yahoo complete the “2.0″ Trifecta by buying out Youtube?
Well, not yet . . . but if they could figure out how to solve the massive copyright problem, Yahoo would surely buy them tomorrow.