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What does Pixamid do that the iphone/facebook android app with integrated camera doesn't do? From what I've deduced Pixamid is a feature of current Facebook clients, not an independent venture in its own right.

This puts them in a similar position as Foursquare or Gowalla - once Facebook introduced places, you saw the stickers on the outside of businesses become "Check-In with Facebook".

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Pixamid is similar to Color, in that we instantly share photos with those around you. But Pixamid gives the user more control, allowing them to limit sharing to just friends at the same place.

We also focus on aggregating photos from whatever source we can. Today, when people are together socially and taking photos, those photos end up spread out all over. If a Pixamid user is at a particular place, Pixamid will collect any photos taken at the same place from Pixamid, Foursquare, Facebook and Instagram.

The more nuanced sharing model and the aggregation are not currently features of Facebook clients. From what we have learned, a lot of people are not happy with any existing photo sharing solution, and we hope to provide some of them with a better service.

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