Ludicorp

Ludicorp was a company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that created Flickr and Game Neverending.

[4][5] Their team consisted of: Stewart Butterfield, one founder of Ludicorp earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1996 from the University of Victoria.

[4] Shortly following Ludicorp's founding, Butterfield, Classon and Fake began working on Game Neverending.

[4] Fake expressed how raising funds for Flickr however was difficult as it was a new concept, including many new features in the new social media market.

[10] Fake said that many in Ludicorp were disappointed to forgo Game Neverending, but they also realised that Flickr was a rising source of success for them.

[4] It was essentially a social networking site, allowing users to post and share pictures they had taken, without any help from professional companies.

[4] Ludicorp created Flickr in a way that it filled a hole in the market; other competitors did not allow bloggers to post pictures.

[8] Ludicorp also added many first ever features in Flickr, such as “authing in,” being able to change the amount of information you share with your friends and activity streams.

[8] Ludicorp also designed Flickr to be more focused on content, rather than as a social interaction site, unlike a platform such as Facebook.

owned Ludicorp, its main product Flickr peaked and then began to decline, with other social media networks taking over,[13] such as Instagram and Snapchat.