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Hmmm, never heard of it. I think to defeat Picasa and Flickr, first, it has to actually be known about... The reasons given in the article are well, nice enou

Hmmm, never heard of it. I think to defeat Picasa and Flickr, first, it has to actually be known about... The reasons given in the article are well, nice enough features, but they're absolutely not enough to guarantee success or domination... not even close. Major success is of course extremely fickle; it's not just major features that are important but all sorts of incidental stuff. In many cases, much of this comes down to luck as much as anything else (e.g. FB's big advantage was being in the right place, at the right time, and not screwing up that advantage completely), and is notoriously hard to predict. So... good luck, I guess, but, well ... meh.

jmathai 14y ago
Nothing guarantees success. Having a radically different approach to an existing problem and getting people on board who understand it is a first step. We are at step 2....of a lot of steps.
lnanek2 14y ago
Same here, never heard of them. Don't really see anything in the article that could somehow get their name to the huge masses of people who know Facebook, and maybe Flickr, and don't really hunt around for advanced options. Instagram at least had the public feeds and following and some sort of way for it to spread. You can't win this by building a better photo tool alone.