Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up

[prakash]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10448459-52.html

[dazzawazza]

From memory flickr was born from a project to create a photo sharing site for photos of the game the founder were developing. So this isn't surprising. I think I got that from Founders at Work.

[eirikref → dazzawazza]

Yes, the people at Ludicorp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludicorp) were making Game Neverending (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Neverending).

And as pointed out in the Wikipedia article on GNE: "Occasional signs of this legacy are visible, such as the '.gne' file extension appearing in Flickr's URLs."

[adamhowell]

Very impressed by CNET spending the resources to embed a reporter like this.

Here's a great gallery of in-progress art, prototypes, etc:

http://news.cnet.com/2300-10797_3-10002397-1.html?tag=mncol

[gcb]

that's a puffy piece, as it's called in journalistic circles.

[ojbyrne → gcb]

Technically, I think that's "puff piece," but I concur.