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By: BubbleShare Finally Gets Its Payday:”芭比共享”终于等到了收费的那一天 by I TechCrunch:麦斯贝日志

Fri, 18 May 2007 07:52:57 +0000

[...] Our previous coverage of BubbleShare is here. 我们先前的报道在这里。 Article from(文章来自于):TechCrunch 2007-1-4 [...]

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:42:33 +0000

http://www.vamos.com I meant.

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:41:24 +0000

Tried http://www.vamos.com. Wow, that’s hot! All bubble strips should be done that way.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:19:09 +0000

A small nitpick - Albert wasn’t a founder of My Desktop, but was involved when it was sold.

By: MattStan

MattStan — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:13:53 +0000

Perhaps you should flag that link as NSFW? There’s currently a thumbnail of a proudly erect penis in their ironically titled “Fresh From the Community” section of the home page. GG to Bubbleshare (BS?) on moderating their content.

By: Remarkk! » BubbleShare Finally Gets Its Payday

Remarkk! » BubbleShare Finally Gets Its Payday — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:45:51 +0000

[...] After a previous flirtation with Fox Interactive that ended abrubtly, Toronto-based BubbleShare finally found a buyer who’ll love them forever Congratulations to Albert Lai and team. BubbleShare hosted the very first DemoCamp, which started a phenomenon in the Toronto tech and startup scene. It’s great to see a successful exit for them.read more | digg story [...]

By: Otis Gospodnetic

Otis Gospodnetic — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:40:00 +0000

Congratulations to Bubbleshare! It’s interesting, almost a year ago I presented Simpy at the Under the Radar conference, in the same session as Browster, and maybe even the same session as Bubbleshare. Bubbleshare got sold, and Browster is no more.

By: » Congrats to Albert and the team at Bubbleshare

» Congrats to Albert and the team at Bubbleshare — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:42:17 +0000

[...] As widely reported in the community (and techcrunch), Bubbleshare has been acquired. It was only a matter of time. I have the utmost respect for Albert and it’s great to see yet another success story coming out of the Toronto tech community. [...]

By: Gannon

Gannon — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:12:59 +0000

What I want to know is why they see value in it. It’s just a Web site where users post photo albums? No fees, no advertisements, no income whatsoever unless I am missing something. Anyone could make a site like this, wait until there’s a bunch of content from users, and then receive $2.25 million? It wouldn’t cost nearly that simply to pay a few people to make such a site. The reason why I am wondering is because I would love to do the same thing (be set for life off of making some user content site), but don’t really understand what they are paying for here — why it’s worth anything at all (that would help, haha).

By: Ouriel Ohayon

Ouriel Ohayon — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:03:52 +0000

Gannon i guess it is worth the price someone is ready to pay if he sees value in it.

By: Gannon

Gannon — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:47:08 +0000

I don’t understand how this is possible. As far as I can tell, the site doesn’t make money, but simply pays money to allow anyone to put photos online… And a company buys it for 2.25 million. If someone can explain to me how this site is worth all of this money (or direct me to an article), it would be greatly appreciated.

By: Ralf

Ralf — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:07:38 +0000

There is a similiar web site offering bubbles http://www.vamos.com

By: Fashion Industry Ceo

Fashion Industry Ceo — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:21:11 +0000

millionaire before he was twenty he’s been living the good life.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:49:07 +0000

Good stuff, again…for a beta. Have they been in Beta since 2004? If so, wtf?

By: Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:17:27 +0000

#10, when you’re Miss America, you don’t need to get a nose job.

By: MistOne

MistOne — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:17:10 +0000

*5 - a quick response -

I really like flickr and don’t use any of the other services nearly as much as I use flickr, just surprised how little innovation and enhancement they have been doing in relation to the competition.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:40:41 +0000

Congratulations Albert! That’s inspiring!

By: John Philip Green

John Philip Green — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:23:39 +0000

Congrats Albert et al.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:15:04 +0000

Not bad for a beta…

By: Bernie Aho

Bernie Aho — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:01:26 +0000

Congrats to Albert,

Seems like a good fit, they are getting bright people to take their fast growing family media company to the future. They can also use some simplicity and modern feel to their portals.

Cool that you are staying in Canada too.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » BubbleShare買収成立～待ちに待った給料日

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » BubbleShare買収成立～待ちに待った給料日 — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:54:11 +0000

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By: soxiam

soxiam — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:38:47 +0000

Strange how our reactions differ. Unlike MistOne, I’ve always thought highly of flickr for NOT releasing what their competitors tout as whizbang features which I think adds very little, if any, to the core experience of sharing photos.

By: Justin Kozuch

Justin Kozuch — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:37:46 +0000

Good show Bubbleshare! Take some time off, you deserve it!

By: BobbyD

BobbyD — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:58:45 +0000

Nice to see a canuck get a win! Congrats and continued success to all at bubbleshare!

By: MistOne

MistOne — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:29:33 +0000

This seems like a good buy, especially with FOX hot on their trail a few weeks ago. I was on flickr last night and was struck by the fact that so little has changed with the service over the past year. With companies like BubbleShare and others rolling out a ton of new features and adapting their service for use on the top social sites, it is remarkable that flikr has done so little. With out much effort, I think flickr could have rolled out similar features as slide/bubbleshare/photobucket and been the run away winner in this broad space.

In your last post, you wrote about Yahoo’s declining lead vs.Google in the calendar wars. With so many upstarts in the photosharing space and so few new features on Flickr we may see a similar scenario play out in photo sharing.

It is kind of baffling, but getting acquired by Yahoo may significantly hamper a young company on the innovation front. It seems like many acquisitions just languish while the high profile buy inspires many startups to keep innovating and improving.