Lightbox.com

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Lightbox.com
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Viewing a posted photo in Lightbox Android app
Developer(s) Lightbox
Initial release June 5, 2011; 12 years ago (2011-06-05)[1]
Development status Discontinued
Operating system Android 2.1 or later
Size 2.3 MB
Type Android Photo & Video
License Freeware
Website Official website

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]

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]

Awards

  • In October 2011, PC World listed Lightbox.com at number 72 in PC World 100 Best Products of 2011.[8][9]

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