That’s interesting, I never heard much about the behind the scenes stuff at Flickr.
My big confusion here is this - how in the world is this even remotely linked to Facebook? How could they try to make it in any way useful to Facebook? There’s the second life competitor speculated by nadir_seen_fire (also speculated in the other BB thread talking about this acquisition), but that seems like a big stretch for Facebook. Or is this really just a case of a big company purchasing what they think could be a very profitable smaller company, even though it’s not really related to their core business at all? Somebody made a comment in the other BB thread, speculating that maybe Zuck is just a big fan of this project, and wants to be the one to help bring it to the market (and make a shit ton of cash in the process). $2 billion seems like a hell of a lot of money to gamble on that though.
