This is just so depress­ing: the Face­book gorilla has bought its sec­ond mobile photo shar­ing app in recent weeks. Lightbox was a great app. It auto-posted to every­thing I cared about (Twit­ter, Face­book, Tum­blr, Foursquare, Flickr) but also had its own beau­ti­ful web­site that kept it above the fray. Light­box (my account is/was at http://​mar​tinkel​ley​.light​box​.com/) was what Flickr should have and could have become and it let me enjoy the fan­tasy while also dual-posting to Flickr (http://​www​.flickr​.com/​p​h​o​t​o​s​/​m​a​r​t​i​n​_​k​e​l​ley), which has stored my pho­tos since Mark Zucker­berg was in train­ing dia­pers. For more on the Flickr that never was, see today’s piece in Giz­modo, “How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Inter­net.”

Light­box is join­ing Face­book!
We started Light­box because we were excited about cre­at­ing new ser­vices built pri­mar­ily for mobile, espe­cially for the Android and HTML5 plat­forms, and we’re hon­ored that mil­lions of you have…

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