"At the O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference in 2004, a startup called Flickr introduced a funny little social networking app that let you upload digital photos into chatroom and IM conversations. While the original launch met with rave reviews from attendees, the Flickr team kept adding features and evolving the service. By July 2004, they had achieved a critical mass of features, and Flickr was becoming the hottest thing on the net. In January 2005 alone, Flickr has been profiled in Wired, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Washington Post." says the O'Reilly Network.
Oh yeah, and last week's Guardian Online, but we also covered it a year ago in an article based on ETech 2004, Let's be Friendsters.
The O'Reilly feature is a long interview with Flickr's chief executive, all-round good guy Stewart Butterfield.
