Sunday, March 05, 2006

USATODAY.com - Flickr of idea on a gaming project led to photo website

USATODAY.com - Flickr of idea on a gaming project led to photo website: "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.
'Had we sat down and said, 'Let's start a photo application,' we would have failed,' Fake says. 'We would have done all this research and done all the wrong things.'"

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