Flickourd out: Next time your site goes down, have a colouring contest. They apologise, however. Sir Stewart Butterfield explains the outage.

Update: Later in the evening, the site is back up. What’s more, there are a gazillion entries in the contest. Lesson to marketers: I’m not exactly sure what the lesson is, but I think it’s something about turning lemons into lemonade and always having crayons handy for when the kids get restless.

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Time posted: 6:34 pm on Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

3 Responses to “Flickourd out”

  1. Tim Morgan Says:

    Is this bit of news the real reason flickr is down?

  2. rex Says:

    Tim, you’re definitely onto something.

  3. lewis pennock Says:

    if that’s a subtle yet timely daily show reference then i like flickr just that much more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl0UE62WnGA