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Flickr Neverending

grabbingsand — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:44:04 -0800

Massively Multiplayer Online Photo Sharing. A too-brief interview with Eric Costello about how The5K * begat The Game Neverending * begat Flickr.* "There's kind of a feeling of exploration within Flickr. It feels like a world where you can move around and find wonderful things – the wonderful things being the great photographs that people upload."

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:21:57 -0800

Here's the article mentioned by Eric on how Flickr is like a MMOG.

By: kmel

kmel — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 16:44:41 -0800

Sigh ... I miss The Game Neverending.

By: angry modem

angry modem — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 16:48:51 -0800

yeah, flickr is a visit once a week sort of thing....GNE would've been a visit once an hour sort of thing, and was.

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 16:50:19 -0800

Flickr is like Speed Racer - the cool and popular one with all the fancy gizmos. But deep in his heart, away from the crowds, he suffers from the insecurity of knowing he will never be as good as his older brother, Racer X - The Game Neverending.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 16:59:26 -0800

This will always be the highlight of my web career.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:26:59 -0800

It's a real stretch to compare Flickr to a MMORPG, and it only comes up because people know the history. How is Flickr more like a game than LiveJournal?

By: tsarfan

tsarfan — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:27:39 -0800

i still havent figured out why everyone is/was so Flickr-giddy. Buzznet kicks its ass so many different ways. is there a magic killer-ap feature that im missing?

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:07:32 -0800

I've never even heard of Buzznet before.

By: teece

teece — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:12:19 -0800

I really love Flickr. I remember hearing all the buzz about it last year and ignoring it. This year, I finally decided to start sharing some of my many digital photos. So I decided to try Flickr (after fooling around with doing it on my blog and on my own server). I am now a Flickr addict. It's all about the community, and the relatively painless way Flickr allows the community to flourish. I had no idea it had such interesting roots. Thanks for the link.

By: majick

majick — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 22:05:41 -0800

I miss GNE. Not the weird Flash-driven fruit-tree oriented hextile thing they fiddled with at the end, but the real thing running Eric's mindblowing DHTML client. The poor game would never, ever, ever scale to the degree they envisioned and still be so wonderful. GNE was great in no small part because of the small, fairly tight-knit community around it. I've still got another few hundredish purple paper around here somewhere, ingredients for several thousand carrot loaves, and an uneaten christmas tree in my closet. Le sigh.

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 01:34:16 -0800

The thing I like the best about flickr is that I can put peoples photostreams into bloglines and know right away when they have added new photos.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:31:34 -0800

I licked a Mathowie once. Good times..... Vacapinta's right. Flickr is fun, but GNE was a revelation.

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:42:28 -0800

I've never even heard of Buzznet before. Me neither. Seems ironic.

By: squidlarkin

squidlarkin — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:05:18 -0800

Flickr's ok, but I'm pissed that I never got to play GNE. They should bring it back. For the record.