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Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature
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#22"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.
Hunter Walk's blogpost on why this might not be the case: http://hunterwalk.com/2013/08/26/how-facebooks-shared-photo-...
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#24If 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.
Well, unless you built a beautiful house on a river-bank to sell to a sucker for a huge profit before the flood hit.
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#25How many years ago was it that Facebook bought out Divvyshot?
It was April 2010.
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#26Probably 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.
with increasingly decent phone cameras, and everybody seemingly buying a DSLR to start a "Johns Photography" page, facebook will have to respond to this - currently their compression is horrible
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#27"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.
As someone who isn't doing web programming, this "app culture" is grinding my gears.
I respect a fellow coder's work. I'm sure a lot of hard work went into all those applications listed there (of which, frankly, I haven't heard, because if I want to share something with my friends I upload it on my server and be done with it), but people ought to be more aware of their own smallness. You don't base your enterprise on making (and hosting, and maintaining!) the nth fucking website that essentially offers something that should simply be a feature of a social network. Especially if it's something like a shared album. Who the hell invests money into a business whose end product is basically one week's work away for the company which already provides services to 99.99% percent of the people need that product?
Wishing for a niche to be there doesn't magically make it poof into existence.
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#28correct me if I am wrong but... hasn't Google+ have this for a while? (ofc G+ isn't used nearly as much as FB for photo sharing, but just sayin')
They call it Party Mode, and they demoed it at the 2012 I/O.
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#29As someone who doesn't have a Facebook account I hope that "Facebook does it" isn't going to be a reason to stop or start. That being said lucky Facebook rarely does something interesting or original :-)
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#30Probably 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.
The average Facebooker doesn't know what that is and doesn't care. Just like so many people listen to music on iPhone or laptop speakers, quality seems to no longer matter.