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The story behind the dropped 'e' in flickr's name
- graywh 16y agoUnrelated: Apparently Twitter was originally twttr, and in 2006, techcrunch had this to say about the service: There is also a privacy issue with Twttr. Every user has a public page that shows all of their messages. Messages from that person’s extended network are also public. I imagine most users are not going to want to have all of their Twttr messages published on a public website.
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- TrevorBurnham 16y agoTo summarize: Yahoo (which owns Flickr) got the domain today, but no one's saying how much they paid for it or whether the transfer was the result of a lawsuit. They cite this DomainNameWire piece, which offers more details but doesn't provide sources for them: http://domainnamewire.com/2010/06/14/yahoo-settles-lawsuit-and-gets-flicker-com-domain-name/ http://domainnamewire.com/2010/06/14/yahoo-settles-lawsuit-a...