Lightbox.com

Lightbox.com

Viewing a posted photo in Lightbox Android app
Developer(s)	Lightbox
Initial release	June 5, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-06-05)[1]
Operating system	Android 2.1 or later
Size	2.3 MB
Type	Photobloging
License	Freeware
Website	lightbox.com

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]

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]

Awards

• In October 2011, PC World listed Lightbox.com at number 72 in PC World 100 Best Products of 2011.[9][10]

References

1. Parsons, Chris (15 June 2011). "Lightbox Photos now available in the Android Market". Android Central. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
2. Perez, Sarah (12 December 2011). "Lightbox App Debuts New Photo Journal: It's A Lazy Man's Tumblr". Techcrunch. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
3. Bonner, Julie (12 December 2011). "New Lightbox App Feature – Your Photo Journal". Blogworld. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
4. Hardawar, Devindra (12 December 2011). "Lightbox leaps beyond Instagram with Tumblr-like photo journals". VentureBeat. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
5. Butcher, Mike (13 March 2011). "Lightbox wants to be Android's new camera app, raises $1.1 million from Valley players". Techcrunch Europe. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
6. "Introducing Lightbox 2.0: Your personal photo journal". Lightbox.com. 12 December 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
7. Constine, Josh (15 May 2012). "Facebook Hires Team From Android Photosharing App Dev Lightbox To Quiet Mobile Fears". TechCrunch. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
8. "Network Solutions, LLC WHOIS". Network Solutions. 14 November 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
9. "100 Best Products of 2011". PC World. 31 October 2011. Archived from the original on 31 August 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
10. "Lightbox Photos for Android". PC World. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2012.

External links

• Official website