Downloader: Facebook acquires Divvyshot and prepares to roll it into Facebook Photos

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Facebook acquires Divvyshot and prepares to roll it into Facebook Photos

Filed under: Business, Photo, Social Software

What happens when a photo-sharing startup with a smart new approach meets the biggest online photo behemoth in the galaxy? We're about to find out. Facebook has just bought Divvyshot, a photo service that's centered around groups and events, rather than individual albums. This group sharing approach is awesome for photos of parties, conferences, shows, and other big events with multiple photographers, and Facebook Photos already has thousands upon thousands of albums of events like these, just waiting to be tied together.

Divvyshot will shut down as an independent service, but its team joins Facebook to help improve the Facebook Photos product. If you're one of Divvyshot's 40,000 current users, you won't lose your photos, but no new accounts will be allowed. One of the coolest features of Divvyshot is the ability to download whole albums as a single archive file. I think a lot of Facebook users would welcome that feature, rather than the current tedious process of saving photos individually.

The Divvyshot iPhone app, which allowed you to shake your phone to share photos, will also be taken off the market. Is it too much to hope that some of its features will show up in Facebook for iPhone?