Even its name, with the missing final vowel, provided inspiration to countless other startups.Īpril 26: A version of the site designed for viewing on mobile phones.

No Web 2.0 site was more important than Flickr it debuted just six days after Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room, and at first, it wasn’t clear that Butterfield and Fake’s photo-sharing site wasn’t the bigger deal.

It was the whole idea.īack in 2004, the sort of rich online environment for social interaction that Flickr and other newcomers were inventing was so new that people started talking about “Web 2.0,” a term that started out sounding futuristic but soon became redundant, since its influence was everywhere. But with those sites, the online sharing was a come-on for their real business, which was selling prints of digital photos. Actually, Flickr arrived years after the first three big names in the category: Ofoto, Shutterfly and Snapfish, all of which debuted in 1999. Or perhaps it will inspire you to start a group of your own.Īs always, thank you to the group administrators, moderators, and members who foster great discussions and make inspiring photo selections for their communities.Founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, who were married at the time, Ludicorp didn’t invent photo sharing. We hope that you’re already familiar with a few of the groups on this list, but we also hope this helps you discover a new group that you’d like to learn more about. They’re presented here in no particular order, so find a group that interests you and drop by to say hello!

From the results, we curated this final list of 30 groups to ensure as broad a range of topics as possible. We looked at the results based on group membership, photo submissions to the group, and group discussions and replies. This year, we crunched the numbers to determine which groups were most popular among Flickr members. Groups serve as a place to seek inspiration, to ask questions, and to have fun and partake in photo challenges with people from around the world. Groups are the connective force of our community, bringing members with common interests together.

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