Stewart

Originally uploaded by tyfn.

Last Thursday I attended the flickr farewell party. It was an amazing event and I met alot of cool people including Stewart who started Flickr. It is sort of sad that they are moving to the states but that seems to be more and more common as companies and people head south in search of financial opportunities. Today they moved to San Francisco. We are going to miss you guys. All of you were amazing hosts. Thanks a bunch.

While there I ran into someone that was there to learn about flickr rather than already being a part of the community. They asked me “Why I stay?”. The question sort of threw me because I felt that they were missing out on the essence of what flickr is about. I don’t see it as a club or clique that I am a part of until I get bored. It is something I use out of selfishness to paraphrase David Sifry. I like being able to tag my photos so that I can easily find them. The fact others can also do that is an added bonus.