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Facebook kills 100 startups with new collaborative photo album feature
So, you started an app for collaborative photo albums. You tried to tell us it was different because it was private, or centered around events or locations, or automatically identified friends’ faces.
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The article sounded cocky. But the point he's trying to get across is that you should try to build a business around a feature that can be placed in at any given time, especially if it starts becoming popular among the users. Everyone knows that FB shamelessly copies features likes there's no tomorrow.
Exactly... Remember their blatant dupe of an app called Poke.
Poke was basically dead after like 2 weeks. But it wasn't a part of FB, it was more of a standalone feature. This is different.