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Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature

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Re: Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature

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Demo:

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Re: Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature

#5
Link bait-y title.

> But we’re deadpooling all of ‘em, effective immediately.

I really don't like the tone of many parts of this article.

> Facebook is just too big to fail when it comes to normal people and photos.

The same could have been said about places.

Re: Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature

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post #5

Link bait-y title. > But we’re deadpooling all of ‘em, effective immediately. I really don't like the tone of many parts of this article. > Facebook is just too big to fail when it comes to normal people and photos. The same could have been said about places.

> I really don't like the tone of many parts of this article.

"Again and again, we warned y’all that Facebook, owner of all photos of people on the Internet and the most popular mobile photo app, was going to crush you eventually."

It really boggles the mind.

Re: Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature

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Probably most people don't notice or care, but Facebook introduces so many artifacts into jpegs, there's got to be room for a startup that actually doesn't compress the crap out of images.

They would require lots of funding quickly if they were to grow suddenly. Think of the bandwidth and storage. Not cheap.

Re: Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature

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If you build your house on a river-bank, you can hardly be surprised when a flood washes it away.

I guess that's the risk with any entrepreneurial work, that someone will get to market faster or build on an existing user base (in this case, a completely unmatchable user base). Surely though, if a whole business idea can be trumped by a new feature on someone else's site, that'd warrant some stronger scrutiny.

Re: Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature

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post #7
post #3

Probably most people don't notice or care, but Facebook introduces so many artifacts into jpegs, there's got to be room for a startup that actually doesn't compress the crap out of images.

They would require lots of funding quickly if they were to grow suddenly. Think of the bandwidth and storage. Not cheap.

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