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Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by phreanix » Fri, Apr 02, 2010, 10:19 PM UTC

necubi wrote: post #37

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…

The biggest issue with facebook photos is the resolution. Most people have 7MP+ cameras now, but facebook resizes them to ~600x450. While I can understand facebook being reluctant to store large pictures, it has become the primary way for many people to share their photos, and it's a shame that so much gets thrown away.

I have a feeling that will be something tackled down the line with a 'premium' paid account. Divvyshot seems to have this as a future offering as well.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by justinchen » Fri, Apr 02, 2010, 10:26 PM UTC

bradgessler wrote: post #49

necubi wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The biggest issue with facebook photos is the resolution. Most people have 7MP+ cameras now, but facebook resizes them to ~600x450. While I can understand facebook being reluctant to store large pictures, it has become the primary way for many people to share their photos, and it's a shame that so much gets thrown away.

Yes, meaningful access to the original high-resolution images. By "meaningful" I mean stuff like downloading everything in a zip archive ($10 says fb doesn't do this) to working with iPhoto, Picassa, Flickr, etc. I would even be willing to. pay a couple bucks to download high-res images in a zip file I promise you if fb doesn't provide decent access to the high-resolution images, DivvyShot will be reinvented by a dif…

We have a service called The Wedding Lens that lets you do this: http://www.theweddinglens.com

Group uploading, full-size resolution uploads and (bulk) downloads.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by zackattack » Fri, Apr 02, 2010, 10:27 PM UTC

hyperbovine wrote: post #45

jfornear wrote: post #31

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I know what you mean, but I'm not sure how "important" photo sharing really is. I think we're kidding ourselves when we think we're going to "make the world a better place" in this industry. Other industries do much more to "make the world a better place" than ours does but they don't talk about it near as much as we do.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. Not to crap on anyone's parade, but Sam Odio's comment above, "It ultimately came down to the decision that we could touch more people's lives at Facebook," rings extremely hollow to me. I can think of about 1000 better ways to touch peoples' lives, if that is really your aim, and none of them involve web apps or startups. Again, I am absolutely not trying to detract…

I don't think you truly understand just how much of an effect Facebook has on people's lives.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by stanleydrew » Fri, Apr 02, 2010, 10:33 PM UTC

phreanix wrote: post #51

necubi wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The biggest issue with facebook photos is the resolution. Most people have 7MP+ cameras now, but facebook resizes them to ~600x450. While I can understand facebook being reluctant to store large pictures, it has become the primary way for many people to share their photos, and it's a shame that so much gets thrown away.

I have a feeling that will be something tackled down the line with a 'premium' paid account. Divvyshot seems to have this as a future offering as well.

Divvyshot has always stored full-res photos.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by naner » Fri, Apr 02, 2010, 10:35 PM UTC

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…

My grandmother has boxes and boxes of old photos that are unorganized and as it stands will probably be lost forever soon enough.

I think it would be cool if some company would partner with kodak or wallgreens or whoever is running all those 1hr photo developing places that are somehow still in business. They should be outfitted with specialized photo scanners and staffed with professionals who can help scan a lot of photos quickly. Then these photos could be archived online and partially sorted with that facial-recognition software. Maybe dates and annotations could be pulled off of handwriting on the back of photos if it is clear enough. Some kind of family-tree arrangement would be nice, too.

Anyways, I honestly don't expect Facebook or anyone else to implement this. It is too costly and difficult and laborious. I sure as hell wouldn't want to do it. But there's my suggestion.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by RK » Fri, Apr 02, 2010, 10:38 PM UTC

mixmax wrote: post #50

gaborcselle wrote: post #43

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I'd like to sync certain directories on my harddrive with FB photos so I don't have to go through the current Java applet-based upload photos process.

Maybe facebook should acquire dropbox...

Please no...

I want to keep using Dropbox.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by Batsu » Fri, Apr 02, 2010, 10:43 PM UTC

Wow, congratulations.

If you ever doubted your business, you can feel affirmed now. Being bought out by the largest social networking site with a sizable portion of their site dedicated to photos... well, you obviously did it right.

Get out there and do something else right, now :D

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by johnyzee » Fri, Apr 02, 2010, 10:48 PM UTC

dantheman wrote: post #23

Congratulations! This is a great app.

... Which is now going to be closed down.

I have to echo the sentiments of another poster in this thread - what is the point if your startup is just an elaborate job application process? Now a really cool app will be shut down, and a couple of guys will land a job at Facebook. Seems like a net loss to me.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by timdorr » Fri, Apr 02, 2010, 11:02 PM UTC

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…

View counters would be nice.

Larger views would also be nice.

And most important, color correction has to be fixed. It's been improved, but whatever they're doing on the backend for compression is muting and killing all color in my photos when I upload them :/

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by hugothefrog » Fri, Apr 02, 2010, 11:03 PM UTC

justinchen wrote: post #52

bradgessler wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, meaningful access to the original high-resolution images. By "meaningful" I mean stuff like downloading everything in a zip archive ($10 says fb doesn't do this) to working with iPhoto, Picassa, Flickr, etc. I would even be willing to. pay a couple bucks to download high-res images in a zip file I promise you if fb doesn't provide decent access to the high-resolution images, DivvyShot will be reinvented by a dif…

We have a service called The Wedding Lens that lets you do this: http://www.theweddinglens.com Group uploading, full-size resolution uploads and (bulk) downloads.

My partner and I just had a ten year anniversary in Thailand, and we're in the process of sharing our entire groups' photos via Divvyshot. If you had a less wedding-oriented skin/store-front on that website, we'd love to use your service..