Flickr started off as a feature. It wasn't really a product. It was a kind of IM in which you could drag and drop photos onto people's desktops and show them what you were looking at. We built it really fast; we had a lot of the technology already from the game, but we built the first instance of Flickr in eight weeks. We had the idea in December and built it out by February and then presented it at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference.
Flickr began as a feature of an online game
