Even when our Flickr galleries routinely crap out, we like Flickr. A blurb in a recent issue of Fast Company tells us what the Wiki already knew: Flickr was originally designed to be an MMO. Founder Stewart Butterfield explains:

It was different from most other Web games. It wasn't postapocalyptic sci-fi, and it wasn't men in tights fighting dragons. We had this game where people were sharing things. What if we added the ability to share photographs?

How about if you added the ability to have less server flakiness? That, it seems, was ditched along with the Flickr MMO idea. Brian Ashcraft

Flickr, The Game [Cathode Tan]

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