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.'"

Comments

Re:It's today's version of the slide projector

[Andrew Tanenbaum]

Why would someone work in only black and white? Is this the 20th century equivalent of shitty Photoshop filters?

Another Canadian startup sold to the yanks.

[$kr1p7_k177y]

This is just another instance of a Canadian selling off bit of Canada to the yanks. It makes me SICK.

Re:It's today's version of the slide projector

[typical]

there is a certian 'je ne sais quoi' that B/W has.

Snobbery? :-)