How We Used To, How We Will
summary
A rapid history of Flickr shows concrete practices and results: a feature spun out of the game never ending becomes Flickr Live then asynchronous photo sharing; early adoption of tags, a public API, continuous integration and DevOps; prototypes pushed behind feature flags that turned into Explore and Places; growth from 10 million to 2 billion images in ~2.5 years and today ~10 billion photos with 7.5 million uploads a day; several experiments work and inform product decisions.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:16Welcome
- 0:55Innovation and Inspiration
- 1:51Erics Background
- 6:35Game Never Ending
- 8:32Flickr
- 13:17Prototyping
- 15:15Downtime
- 22:10Generational Shift
- 26:17Flickr Awesome Again
- 28:50Technical Innovation
- 29:26Agile Development
- 30:09XKCD
- 31:08Bird Da Flickr
- 31:59Yahoo Labs
- 33:17Diversity
- 34:21Healthy Mature Product
- 34:41Primary Trends
- 35:31LaunchNickcom
- 36:08The Other Way
- 36:29Emergent Behavior
- 37:06Decision
- 37:29Thanks
- 37:39Questions
