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Facebook, via email.
How many days did it take from initial email to final acquisition?
Maybe this could be a hint:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1121349
Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
How many days did it take from initial email to final acquisition?
Maybe this could be a hint: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1121349
Don't know but to me it seems unlikely. The links is when they just launched. I am assuming Facebook could have known them only after they launched.
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#104Hi 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…
How's about not claiming to take ownership of my IP for the mere service of hosting and labelling my pics?
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#105Hi 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…
Face recognition technology has been around for years. A partner and I even implemented a rudimentary tool for it in a few weeks in an AI course. I always wondered why Facebook couldn't take advantage of this and save the world thousands, if not millions of cumulative hours tagging photos.
I read facebook looked at doing this, but their users were already manually tagging all their photos (and cool with that) so the additional hardware/implementation resources were errrr spent elsewhere.
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#106For how much? Doesn't mean much without that info.
Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)
#107Hi 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…
Face recognition technology has been around for years. A partner and I even implemented a rudimentary tool for it in a few weeks in an AI course. I always wondered why Facebook couldn't take advantage of this and save the world thousands, if not millions of cumulative hours tagging photos.
Tagging friends in a photo is a meaningful social action, just like commenting or liking a status update. Automating this would give users one less way to interact with their friends on the site.
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#108This is a real shame, because I just started using Divvyshot (first event: birth of my daughter on March 8) and I really, really liked it. It filled a great niche. A year ago, a bunch of friends and family and I went on vacation, and we all talked about trying to set up some kind of photo sharing spot where we could see each other's photos, but it never happened. Divvyshot, though, fit that bill. Facebook doesn't do…
dropbox seems to be perfect for that kind of sharing
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Face recognition technology has been around for years. A partner and I even implemented a rudimentary tool for it in a few weeks in an AI course. I always wondered why Facebook couldn't take advantage of this and save the world thousands, if not millions of cumulative hours tagging photos.
Two reasons come to mind, Even a 5% error rate is unacceptable. People may take offense to machine tag errors. Second, facebook probably likes the time commitment people make to tagging photos and adding friends in order to tag them to the picture. It increases communication and also adds cases where people get facebook invites so they can get tagged.
The solution to the 5% error is to do the tagging automatically, but make the uploading friend confirm each photo to ensure that it was tagged properly.
I don't consider tagging itself to be inherently social. Being in a social setting with someone is what was social. Putting a picture of someone on Facebook is social. You can still comment on an auto-tagged picture just the same as a manually-tagged one. The only difference is that you save some time for those people who contribute the most (the friends who take dozens of pictures at every event and then spend a couple hours uploading/tagging them the next day). By decreasing the necessary effort of photo-sharing, I would expect to see more uploading and tagging.
A side benefit is that it could eventually make discovery easier. How many pictures do you have at a bar or somewhere else with a bunch of people you don't know in the background? How many times have you hung out someone somewhere, have a picture of them, but didn't get or can't remember their name? Automatic recognition gives you a better chance of meeting some of these people again.
For those saying this is a privacy issue, the uploader doesn't have to see the auto-tag of a non-friend. Instead, the person who has been auto-tagged could be notified and have the option of allowing/disallowing the tag to occur.
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#110Hi 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…
Face recognition technology has been around for years. A partner and I even implemented a rudimentary tool for it in a few weeks in an AI course. I always wondered why Facebook couldn't take advantage of this and save the world thousands, if not millions of cumulative hours tagging photos.
there are a lot of situations where you don't want to tag a photo of a friend, the way tags are implemented on facebook.
i generally wouldn't tag a friend in a picture where they look bad, and there are all kinds of social situations where a friend wouldn't want to be tagged in a particular photo -- because one girl would see them with another girl, for example.