A History of Flickr

Ant writes "USA Today has an interesting look back at how Flickr was born. From the article 'Caterina Fake knew she was on to something when one of the engineers at her Vancouver, British Columbia-based online game start-up created a cool tool to share photos and save them to a Web page while playing. "It turned out the fun was in the photo sharing," she says. Fake scrapped the game. She and her programmer husband, Stewart Butterfield, transformed the project into Flickr. In less than two years, the photo-sharing site -- now owned by Internet giant Yahoo! -- has turned into one of the Web's fastest-growing properties.'"

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I went from a staunch Gallery user to Flickr Pro. Gallery is great and maybe is still the first choice for lots of folks, but not me. In addition to all the features they have in common, Flickr can show latest photos on blog, can publish photos sent via email, can receive camera phone pics, can blog photos sent by email/camera phone, integrated creative commons licensing, supports notes on pics, can link to friends, makes awesome use of metadata tags, and is a great way to find other people's photos. Flickr feels social to me. And I think my pictures get looked at more. It's well worth the $25 for pro.