26 Jan
2006
Silicon Valley Damashii, or, the Yahoo! endgame
≡ 8:02 pm ≡ delicious flickr google photo sketchbook tags yahoo
So it appears (though it is still a rumor) that Yahoo! is all set to acquire Digg.
Why is Yahoo! buying up all these niche websites?
Looks like there are still some vestiges of GNE (Game Neverending, Ludicorp’s original product, since discontinued to focus on Flickr) inside the Flickr engine. I always suspected it (some of the URLs end in .gne) but now I have proof, thanks to the most excellent Rod:
Subject: [Flickr] Array.character_name has given you a Pro Account!
It’s somehow very cool to me (since I have had networked multiplayer environments on the brain since high school) knowing that, somewhere deep inside Flickr, I am a character in a game.
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