Om Malik reported yesterday on more layoffs at Flickr. Most notably Flickr Chief Architect Cal Henderson seems to have left the company and is rumored by All Things Digital to be working on a stealth gaming start up with Former Flickr Chief and Flickr Co-Founder Stewart Butterfield (who had probably the best resignation letter of all time when he resigned himself last year). Engineer Rev Dan Catt, probably my favorite character on Flickr, is also leaving and says on his blog that he’ll be moving back to the UK near Manchester. In his blog post he hinted that he’d like to work for Google. Rev Dan did a lot of work on the whole geotagging thing at Flickr. I think that’s one of the more exciting areas on Flickr and am disappointed to see that he won’t be working on that directly anymore. I’ve got thousands of my own photos geotagged on Flickr at present. In looking at an Apr 23, 2009 23:58:04 GMT cached version of Flickr’s about page, which includes who they list on the Flickr team, it looks like others who are gone include Kevin Collins, Ashot Petrosian, Sara Wood, and Neil Kandalgaonkar. An updated version of the team can be found here. - Thomas Hawk

Sucks. I met Cal in 2002 at the 1st b3ta.com birthday party in London. Nice guy. Got a photo of him eating cake somewhere. - Simon Wicks

His presentations are amazing, keeps you focused by making them fun and not boring, full of cats. Least the ones i watched online were like that. - Simon Wicks

Bartz is taking names. - coldbrew

That's kinda scary, given that flickr doesn't exactly have a full staff to start with... - Paula W

Well, she's pretty much gutting Flickr now, isn't she? Damn! - vicster