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cash or stock?
Who made the first move?
What phase of the moon was it when you guys agreed on the terms? And was Jupiter visible?
Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)
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Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)
#72Omg, yet another YC startup has been killed^H^H^H^H^Hacquired ? Oh well, hope the team has been offered something little bit more material, beside "the resources and freedom to build cool stuff". :-)
If you're going to go to the trouble of doing the witty ^H thing, you should at least delete the correct number of characters.
Whats witty about typing caret H ?!
Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)
#73Congratulations!
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If you're going to go to the trouble of doing the witty ^H thing, you should at least delete the correct number of characters.
Whats witty about typing caret H ?!
I learned about this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace
by putting caret H in a Google search.
Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)
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#77Why the heck did they do that? I mean, congratulations to them, but they just released an amazing rewrite of their product that kicked Facebook Photo's ass. I wonder why they didn't go through with it. Sad...
I see this as a problem for startups to get traction in the future if there continue to be these early product shut-down exits. What wants to go use a marginally better product when the is always the chance it will disappear into one of the bigger options at any time.
Not being in a position to judge this specific instance, I'd think in general you are better off showing some power, saying no to a deal, maybe entering into a partnership instead that keeps the focus on your product.
Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)
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And I believe that. I would have done it as well. That said, there's something wrong with a startup system that's little more than an elaborate job application process. No problem for that kind of consumer space site but at the end of the day the message is clear: Never trust a startup with something important.
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.
When someone's house is on fire and they can only save one thing, they save their photos. Photo sharing is way up there on the list of things that make people happy.
Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)
#79Hi 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.
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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...
One can integrate a photo sharing site with Dropbox without acquiring Dropbox. I did.