Unfortunately for Flickr fans, the company purchasing it was Yahoo (for $35 million), and it was right at the time Yahoo! started earning a reputation for being a place where great products went to die.īack then, Yahoo was a Web 1.0 company that thought a good Web 2.0 strategy would be akin to a strategy of creating a lightbulb by catching lightning bugs and putting them in a mason jar. In 2005, Flickr was one of the first post-dot-com bubble, Web 2.0, social networking platforms to be purchased by a big tech-media company. Here’s an example: A famous Silicon Valley founding myth claims that in February of 2005, three friends who had worked together at Pay Pal (Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim) decided there needed to be a “Flickr for video,” and the next day registered the domain name,. How influential was Flickr back in the early days of what we now call social media? Flickr was the first photo-sharing platform based on the conventions of blogging at a time when many people didn’t quite understand exactly what that new thing called blogging even was. (Or, as that early-to-mid-2000s period was called back then, Web 2.0). Launched in 2004, Flickr was one of the first social networks of any kind created during the post-dot-com bubble era. ( See an updated version of this article published in November, 2018.) Marketing to Small Business Decision Makers.SBA Announces Call for Nominations for National Small Business Week Awards | 2022.QuickBooks Survey: 17 Million New Small Businesses Could Start in 2022.Small Business, Big Holidays: 2021-2022.IRS Tip: How Small Business Owners Can Deduct Their Home Office From Their Taxes | 2022.The SBA’s National Small Business Week is May 1-7, 2022.
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