What’s Your Flickr ?
BlogExplosion has seen many entrepreneurial members building their own blog services and developing their blogs to the point where they are actually making advertising dollars! Did you know that Flickr started the same way ?
“How do you create the future of Web apps? By accident. Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield (above) are the husband-and-wife team behind Flickr, the photo-sharing site that launched in February 2004 and quickly got so popular that Yahoo acquired it a year later. Flickr wasn’t born as a fully realized idea–in fact, it wasn’t even originally for photo sharing. But its building blocks make up a successful Web 2.0 application. Here’s how it evolved.”