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Photovine Grows Again As A New Photo App, Under A New Owner, Less Than A Year After Google Killed It

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Remember Photovine? This was the slick, social photo sharing app rolled out by Google via its acqui-hired Slide developer team in 2011, then relegated to the discontinuation column not one week later, and then finally shut down in March 2012. Now, much like a persistent vine itself, “Photovine” is getting a new lease of life, once again as a photo sharing app — this time launched by a different… → Read More

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