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March 25th, 2005

Yahoo Acquires Flickr

January 18th, 2005

Upcoming Presentations by the Flickr Team

December 24th, 2004

More Great Flickr Press

September 22nd, 2004

Flickr Gets Raves from Chicago Sun-Times

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March 25th, 2005

Yahoo Acquires Flickr

Yes it's true! Yahoo has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ludicorp, makers of Flickr. The announcement was made March 20 on the Flickr Blog. Pop the champagne corks!! More...

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January 18th, 2005

Upcoming Presentations by the Flickr Team

Wow! The Flickr team is a gabby bunch! There are a ton of speaking engagements coming up for the Flickr gang, including appearances at SXSW, Emerging Tech, Digital Lifestyles in Munich, and, surprisingly, even more! More...

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December 24th, 2004

More Great Flickr Press

Flickr has been getting a bunch more great press lately, including a great exploration of the Flickr communities by online magazine Salon.com, The Friendster of Photo Sites. More...

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November 29th, 2004

Butterfield and Henderson at ETCon

Flickr's Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson have been selected to present at the 2005 Emerging Tech conference in San Diego. Their talk is entitled Web Services as a Strategy for Startups: Opening Up and Letting Go. More...

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September 22nd, 2004

Flickr Gets Raves from Chicago Sun-Times

Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun-Times has written a great article about Flickr, Flickr has it all and more, in which he notes that "The Flickr folk succeed, essentially, by stealing damn near every single great idea that's floating around on the Internet." More...

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July 16th, 2004

FeedBurner/Flickr Partnership & Press Roundup

Flickr and FeedBurner announced a partnership yesterday, which we're very excited about. We're co-developing a standard for syndicating photos with them, and also offering the first (of many) integrated features, splicing. What does this mean in the language of the people? More...

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July 10th, 2004

Flickr Even Easier - And More Fun! - to Use

We have added many features to make using Flickr even easier. Most notable among these are the beta of the Mac Uploadr, the Flickr Zeitgeist, and the ability to post directly and instantly to virtually any blog. More...

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June 7th, 2004

Flickr adds Notes and Tags

Flickr announced Notes and Tags in its latest beta release, two innovative features that make photo management easier than ever before. More...

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May 9th, 2004

Caterina to speak on CBC Radio

Catch Caterina live on CBC Radio Wednesday, May 12 on the program Sounds like Canada. Tod Maffin, Broadcaster and Technology futurist will be on the show, as well as Jim Elve of Blogs Canada. More...

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February 2nd, 2005

Frank Boosman joins Ludicorp Board of Directors

Our first outside member joins the Ludicorp Board. More...

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May 1st, 2004

Caterina Fake speaking at CAJ conference

Caterina Fake, Ludicorp's VP of Community, has been invited to speak at the Canadian Association of Journalists annual conference at the Hyatt in Vancouver on May 7. More...

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April 22nd, 2004

Flickr continues to innovate

Photostreams, a new way to share photos on Flickr, was launched today. With the release of Photostreams Flickr moves into preview release 3 of its public beta. More...

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February 20th, 2004

Flickr Launches!

Flickr, Ludicorp's first product to hit public beta, is now open for testing. We're very excited! Flickr is a real-time media-sharing community site and is of particular interest to digital camera and camera phone users. More...

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February 6th, 2004

Welcome aboard to our newest board member!

Ludicorp is pleased to announce another stellar addition to its board, Dick Hardt, a well known figure and proponent of the Vancouver technology community (Download the press release). More...

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February 2nd, 2004

Frank Boosman joins Ludicorp Board of Directors

Our first outside Director joins the Ludicorp Board (Download the press release). More...

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January 19th, 2004

Ludicorp receives funding from Telefilm Canada for The Game Neverending

Telefilm Canada announced today that it has awarded Ludicorp CDN$450,000 in product development and marketing financing for Game Neverending (GNE) through its Canadian New Media Fund. More...

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December 4th, 2003

Caterina Fake joins the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences

Caterina Fake joins Stewart Butterfield as a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. More...

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October 16th, 2003

Clay Shirky Joins Advisory Board

Ludicorp is pleased to announce that Clay Shirky, a thought leader and world renowned authority on social software, has joined Ludicorp's Board of Advisors. More...

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October 14th, 2003

Ludicorpers to Speak at Upcoming O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference

Three Ludicorpers and a Ludicorp advisor are presenting at the 2004 edition of the forward-thinking conference, marking the second year in a row that Ludicorp's innovations have been represented. More...

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September 14th, 2003

Andrew Zolli and Mark Findlay Join Ludicorp's Advisory Board

Andrew and Mark bring extremely valuable expertise in branding, marketing, operational and financial strategy, and the creation of successful consumer products. More...

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September 7th, 2003

Ludicorp at State of Play

Ludicorp President Stewart Butterfield will be presenting at the first The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds conference in New York City, November 13-15, 2003. More...

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June 3rd, 2003

Ludicorp wins 'Most Promising New Company'

Ludicorp took home a 'Pixel'! More...

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May 6th, 2003

Game Neverending Press Round-up

Wired, Slashdot, Irish Times, Mindjack... More...

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May 3rd, 2003

Ludicorp up for "Most Promising New Company of the Year"

Ludicorp has been named a finalist in the "Most Promising New Company of the Year" category of the Canadian New Media Awards, the only company outside of Ontario so honoured. More...

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April 9th, 2003

GNE as a Mirror World

The current issue of Discover Magazine contains a flattering write-up of Game Neverending... More...

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March 31st, 2003

Meg Hourihan Joins Ludicorp Advisory Team.

A renowned expert on personal publishing on the web, has joined Ludicorp's advisory team. More...

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March 2nd, 2003

Collective Play at UC Berkeley

Ludicorper Ben Cerveny will represent Ludicorp and GNE at a one-day colloquium exploring the technological, aesthetic and social-political issues associated with massively-multiplayer, immersive gaming. More...

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February 3rd, 2003

One World Ends So Another May Rise

At just after midnight Pacific time February 1st 2003 the GNE prototype world ceased to be. More...

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January 22nd, 2003

Ludicorp Founder Named to The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences

Stewart Butterfield joins some other technology luminaries in this prestigious organisation. More...

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January 9th, 2003

Ludicorper to Speak at Upcoming O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference

Ludicorp Founder and President Stewart Butterfield has been invited to speak at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference this year. More...

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December 10th, 2002

Second Round of Prototype Testing Begins

Testing began today on an enhanced version of the prototype which includes features like the ability to purchase a home or create notes which can be sent to other players or left around the game world to annotate the spaces, pull pranks or create guestbooks and collaborative literary creations. More...

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December 1st, 2002

Ludicorper to Speak at upcoming Gel Conference

Stewart to speak at the inaugural GEL conference! More...

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November 7th, 2002

First Round of Game Neverending Prototype Testing Ends

We were astonished at the devotion with which people play The Game Neverending, and how much time people spend there. More...

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