Flickr Co-Founder Caterina Fake on the Value of Viral Loops

I got a shout out, woo-hoo!<p>I think tagging is best when people tag items that aren't theirs. Otherwise they are inclined to abuse it as a distribution mechanism. If tagging well-served photos, then why do they have Groups Sets Collections, etc? Hmph.<p>I also disagree that tagging was responsible for flickr's success.<p>(2001, not 2004 for creating it, incidentally.)

In this article in really sounds like Catherina Fake regrets her decision of selling Flickr. It must be a very hard decision : accept 40 M$ or keep growing very personal work.<p>What I found interesing is that she underlines the fact that Flickr has been (is) very popular because of special circonstances, the fact that digital cameras began to be cheap and widespread, more and more people blogging...<p>It seems like Flickr became successful in a large part because of a lot of luck.

Viral loops is a great book, I picked it up a few days ago. If only it had a kindle edition.