Snapjoy’s Flickraft Promised To “Rescue” Flickr Photos — Until It Was Blocked

7 February 2012, 4:41 pm

Photo startup Snapjoy launched a clever promotional scheme this afternoon to lure users over from Flickr. And it succeeded — perhaps too well. The Y Combinator-backed company aims to be an online repository where users can store all their photos, while also sharing them on a limited basis. That already made Snapjoy a competitor, of sorts, to older photo sites like (Yahoo-owned) Flickr and ...... Read More »

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