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Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

jfornear wrote: post #20
cmelbye wrote: post #16

Why the heck did they do that? I mean, congratulations to them, but they just released an amazing rewrite of their product that kicked Facebook Photo's ass. I wonder why they didn't go through with it. Sad...

"...we’ve received an offer we can’t refuse." Translation: $ Plus, Facebook is an awesome product with millions of users. Now they can help Facebook Photos kick its own ass. Sounds like a win-win for everyone. :)

And I believe that. I would have done it as well. That said, there's something wrong with a startup system that's little more than an elaborate job application process. No problem for that kind of consumer space site but at the end of the day the message is clear: Never trust a startup with something important.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by Sam_Odio »

adamsmith wrote: post #19

Hopefully facebook will let them open source, just as Google did for EtherPad and Remail. It always feels regretful when a service gets bought up and shut down but I hope open sourcing becomes a common mitigating factor.

The Divvyshot team has talked about this and it's definitely something that we want to do. Ultimately it depends on Facebook's legal department.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by lotharbot »

Sam_Odio wrote: post #17

Hi everyone, Thank you for all the congratulations. We're thrilled to be joining the Facebook team. Frankly it's still taking time for everything to sit in. I'll admit that it's bittersweet. When you spend 18 months obsessing over your company it's hard to see it go. It ultimately came down to the decision that we could touch more people's lives at Facebook...and that's what we've been in this for all along. Since th…

First off, congratulations!

Now, suggestions:

1) ability to resize tag boxes to some degree

2) ability to drag tags around, instead of having to remove and re-click to place them

3) ability to change an existing tag. Example: when my mom joined facebook, I had to go back and delete all of the tags to her name (unlinked) and then add in new tags to her name (linked to her profile). It would have been easier to have an "update tag" button that let me link that tag to her profile (preferably for the whole album, but one-by-one would be better than nothing.)

4) I know facebook stores multiple sizes of photos. It would be neat to have more direct control over that -- say, to pick our own thumbnails, or to allow certain photos to be displayed in higher resolutions.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by bkudria »

lanstein wrote: post #18
ruslan wrote: post #15

Omg, yet another YC startup has been killed^H^H^H^H^Hacquired ? Oh well, hope the team has been offered something little bit more material, beside "the resources and freedom to build cool stuff". :-)

If you're going to go to the trouble of doing the witty ^H thing, you should at least delete the correct number of characters.

Also, it's 2010, you have ^W at your disposal, which, gasp, kills a whole word!

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by dualogy »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #21
jfornear wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"...we’ve received an offer we can’t refuse." Translation: $ Plus, Facebook is an awesome product with millions of users. Now they can help Facebook Photos kick its own ass. Sounds like a win-win for everyone. :)

And I believe that. I would have done it as well. That said, there's something wrong with a startup system that's little more than an elaborate job application process. No problem for that kind of consumer space site but at the end of the day the message is clear: Never trust a startup with something important.

"Never trust a startup with something important."

Well, startups aren't the only types of companies that get bought. Acquisitions are part of the markets and across all types of companies, big or small, young or old.

The only difference is that the tech startup scene is so very loud and vocal about all this. In other markets, it's maybe a side notice in a rarely-read corporate newsletter. Nobody cares except for the individuals directly involved.

Ultimately, the bulk of these M&As happen not because a product is to be destroyed but in order to take it to another, subjectively "higher" level. It's the same here. Whether that happens, as always, remains to be seen, but both parties were willing to try.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by hnsummary »

Article Summary:

Divvyshot is a YC funded group photo sharing website that launched March 2009. They were in the process of looking for angel funding but apparently Facebook made an offer that couldn’t be turned down. Techcrunch claims the purchase price was probably very low and the purpose was to acquire the talent. Divvyshot is starting the process of shutting down their services today and will begin disabling accounts in two weeks.

http://hnsummary.com/2010/04/02/facebook-acquires-divvyshot/

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