Private Equity Firm Apollo to Buy Shutterfly, Snapfish

Re:Private Equity Firm Apollo to Buy Shutterfly, Snapfish by uptown on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @07:43AM (#20154553)

What a long, and winding path my Ofoto account has taken.

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Re:Private Equity Firm Apollo to Buy Shutterfly, Snapfish by aerophilic on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:25AM (#20155677)

I will go even further... I had the original “Kodak Gallery”...

Amazing how I still have photos from “way back when”

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Re:Private Equity Firm Apollo to Buy Shutterfly, Snapfish by uptown on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @06:53PM (#20160239)

I’d forgotten which was first. Wasn’t Ofoto before Kodak Gallery? I know I had both - just can’t recall the progression.

Edit:

Ofoto launched in 1999 and was acquired by Kodak in 2001:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Gallery

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Re:Private Equity Firm Apollo to Buy Shutterfly, Snapfish by aerophilic on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:21AM (#20163780)

Ha!

Thanks for the clarification, I had both as well! Such a windy route... glad though they never “ended service” or did something like Flickr.

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Re:Private Equity Firm Apollo to Buy Shutterfly, Snapfish by mceachen on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:55AM (#20155956)

Tell me about it! I've used so many photo services (that then very reliably go out of business) that I wrote PhotoStructure to sweep my mess of disorganized and duplicated photos and videos into order and self-host them with a UI that's designed for discovery and fun browsing. <please-forgive-the-plug> https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/ </please-forgive-the-plug>

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