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Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by lotharbot »

adriand wrote: post #68

This 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…

I'm curious... what is it, specifically, that you want from your friends-and-family photo sharing that Facebook doesn't offer? I can't figure it out from your description.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by lotharbot »

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…

I thought of something additional:

Group photo album ownership.

Example: I would love to be able to make a "family photos" album that is shared between me, my wife, and my son. I don't see any reason to have to duplicate their albums, and think it's silly that people have to add all three of us (or look in three places) to see all of our family pictures. If one of us could make an album and add the other two as co-owners, it would be a lot easier for us to put up family pics.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by Balsamic »

axod wrote: post #67
borism wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

cash or stock?

Who made the first move?

Contrary to the sentiment of the other replies, I feel this is an interesting question. For those nearing the parapet of potential acquisition it would be interesting to know how affirmative one's actions should be.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by paraschopra »

johnyzee wrote: post #58
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.

Ultimately the founders are maximizing their net gain and this offer may seem best to them, at this point of time.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by Caligula »

BrandonM wrote: post #79
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…

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.

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by jakecarpenter »

BrandonM wrote: post #79
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…

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'm not an AI guy, but isn't having people tag their photos is creating a gold mine of data for when they do automate the process?

Re: Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

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Post by diN0bot »

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…

fun widget for viewing a random photo a day from one friend. i have tons of friends, each with tons of photos....i want to engage with them (these aren't folks i speak to normally), but it's overwhelming.
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