How many years ago was it that Facebook bought out Divvyshot?
Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature
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Re: Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature
#12Link 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.
> Facebook is just too big to fail when it comes to normal people and photos.
Which is why they didn't have to worry about some silly mobile app with ridiculous 'filters' that only teenagers use when they want to feel artsy.
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#13Probably 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.
flickr is actually quite popular amongst my photographer friends; artists and doodlers seem to use deviantart.
Facebook is a place for photos of people's faces, really. If the artifacts prevent you from seeing someone's face, the picture is probably too small to begin with. Putting other kinds of photos on Facebook (like, say, Cinnabon(TM)) always baffled me, but people do it anyway.
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Re: Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature
#15Sorry I've been out of the Facebook app game for a while, but isn't there a Facebook API for photos? Couldn't anyone do what Facebook is doing here, leveraging the Facebook userbase and their unrivalled quantities of photos? Of course users would still have to discover the app as opposed to it being part of the stock FB experience, but this doesn't necessarily sound like the death knell for every startup who wants to build a social/collaborative photo album service.
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#16Link 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.
> Facebook is just too big to fail when it comes to normal people and photos. Which is why they didn't have to worry about some silly mobile app with ridiculous 'filters' that only teenagers use when they want to feel artsy.
I believe Instagram's rapid growth was greatly helped by leveraging access to Facebook's social graph. By the time Facebook catched on and tried to limit access, Instagram was too big.
Facebook likely won't make the same mistake of allowing something similar to happen again.
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#17I'm one of those entrepreneurs whose startup is destined for the Internet trash bin (or whatever that was).
Yes, Facebook is a behemoth in the photo space. But there are many facets to people's photo libraries than mere sharing and collaboration. I've actually been happy to see fellow photo start ups tackling some of hose more interesting problems.
No doubt this solves a pain point for many. But I don't know if I see it as crushing many startups. The thing with Facebook is that people will come up with ways to work around the limitations of the platform. It's got that much momentum.
Photos are a big space and I'm happy to see other companies tackling more than just the social sharing problems that in my opinion have largely been solved already.
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#18Link 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.
> Facebook is just too big to fail when it comes to normal people and photos. Which is why they didn't have to worry about some silly mobile app with ridiculous 'filters' that only teenagers use when they want to feel artsy.
I had much the same feeling about silly mobile apps with ridiculous filters prior to actually using Instagram, but the truth is that (when used appropriately) those filters do actually improve the aesthetic quality of phone photography.
It's easy for some people to go overboard or act like they're a deeply intellectual thinker just because they've taken a brooding selfie in black and white, but misuse shouldn't be conflated with uselessness.
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#19"Apps and services like Cluster, Albumatic, Keepsy, Swirl, Flock, Kicksend, Kaptur, and dozens of others are destined for the dustbin of Internet history."
I suspect most of these were headed there anyway, no offense to anyone working on them.
Re: Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature
#20Probably 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.
There's probably room for a startup, but not a very big one. Otherwise it will have to compress the images...