Lightbox.com

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Lightbox.com
Developer Lightbox
Initial releaseJune 5, 2011;14 years ago (2011-06-05) [1]
Operating system Android 2.1 or later
Size 2.3  MB
Type Photobloging
License Freeware
Website lightbox.com

Lightbox.com was a website, Android app, [2] and photo blogging platform that allowed users to post images, text, links, and more to their personal photo blog. [3]

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History

Founded by Thai Tran [4] (formerly a product manager at Google and YouTube) and Nilesh Patel, [5] Lightbox received $1.1 million in seed funding from Index, Accel, SV Angel, 500 Startups, and others. [2] [5]

On December 12, 2011, Lightbox launched its Version 2.0. [6] At this time, Tran announced that the Android app was approaching 1 million downloads. [4]

On May 15, 2012, the Lightbox.com team was acquired by Facebook This had caused Lightbox to be fully closed on June 15, 2012. [7]

On November 14, 2015, in spite of the prior entity's closure, owner registration of the "lightbox.com" internet domain name was renewed for 10 additional years, through 2025. [8]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Parsons, Chris (15 June 2011). "Lightbox Photos now available in the Android Market". Android Central. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
  2. 1 2 Perez, Sarah (12 December 2011). "Lightbox App Debuts New Photo Journal: It's A Lazy Man's Tumblr". Techcrunch . Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  3. ↑ Bonner, Julie (12 December 2011). "New Lightbox App Feature – Your Photo Journal". Blogworld. Archived from the original on 6 January 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  4. 1 2 Hardawar, Devindra (12 December 2011). "Lightbox leaps beyond Instagram with Tumblr-like photo journals". VentureBeat . Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  5. 1 2 Butcher, Mike (13 March 2011). "Lightbox wants to be Android's new camera app, raises $1.1 million from Valley players". Techcrunch Europe. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  6. ↑ "Introducing Lightbox 2.0: Your personal photo journal". Lightbox.com. 12 December 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
  7. ↑ Constine, Josh (15 May 2012). "Facebook Hires Team From Android Photosharing App Dev Lightbox To Quiet Mobile Fears". TechCrunch . Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  8. ↑ "Network Solutions, LLC WHOIS". Network Solutions. 14 November 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  9. ↑ "100 Best Products of 2011". PC World. 31 October 2011. Archived from the original on 31 August 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
  10. ↑ "Lightbox Photos for Android". PC World. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
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