Flickr founders name project "Tiny Speck"; starts hiring

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/10/flickr-follow-up-project-has-a-name-tiny-speck-and-theyre-hiring/

by OperaLover • 17 years ago

13 3 17 years ago

Flickr started as a MMORPG! Let that be a lesson to all of us founders. Questions your ideas, because you're smart but not perfect.

misuba• 17 years ago

Flickr started as a chat room, made as a quick side project using technologies developed for a MMORPG. It just took over the company's energy, in much the same way Twitter took over Obvious Corp.

[edit before someone gets as pedantic on me as I got on the parent: Flickr was a series of chat rooms. Not sure what the term really is... in the MUD/MOO world they used to just be called "chatters" I suppose? Because the few other features they had were intended as social toys, the same way Flickr was intending people to use photos.]

blasdel• 17 years ago

Flickr is still an MMORPG -- the social features are still pretty great and the primary focus of the site, but Facebook is taking that market. Flickr made a number of huge mistakes too (like the NIPSA bullshit).

It's absolutely awful for actually looking at the photos though -- to look at photos at a decent resolution you have to click through to the photo page, then click through to 'all sizes' without knowing whether there will be a larger size on the other side, and then maybe click a larger size again from there. Now you're at a dead end, and have to start the process all over again!

Flickr founders name project "Tiny Speck"; starts hiring

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