Lightbox.com
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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]
| Lightbox.com | |
|---|---|
Viewing a posted photo in Lightbox Android app | |
| Developer | Lightbox |
| Initial release | June 5, 2011[1] |
| Operating system | Android 2.1 or later |
| Size | 2.3 MB |
| Type | Photobloging |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | lightbox |
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]
On November 14, 2015, in spite of the prior entity's closure, owner registration of the "lightbox.com" internet domain name was renewed for 10 additional years, through 2025.[8]
