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A quick google reveals serveral Flickr for Facebooks apps.. but I think a major value-driver for photos on FB is tagging of friends, and the "see all photos of..", "see photos of NN and me" features, and I think those are difficult/impossible to tap into without using FB's own photo app (although I don't know).

An idea could be to make an app that will upload deliberately crippled (low resolution, watermark), yet recognizable, pictures to FB, and a high-quality copy on Flickr, so tags work, but when you go the to picture, there's a note "I won't let FB own my stuff, see a high quality version of this pic on (Flickr-link) that I own. Posted by CoolPhotoApp."..



If I was on Facebook and a friend of mine started doing that, I would unfriend him for being a dick. If he tagged me in a low-res picture, so that all my friends looking for my photos would see a blurry me in the mix, I'd be pretty pissed off. Or worse: I'd ban the application, as is my prerogative, and suddenly I don't see any of these photos at all and that app destroys photos entirely.




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