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“Nearly five years ago—back when Flickr was still in its infancy, and Facebook was on just a few college campuses—we founded Tiny Pictures with a view to helping people share experiences as they happen.
Radar was born a short time later, and focused on delivering a real-time, mobile stream of pictures and conversation shared by you and your friends on any phone…long before the iPhone made this a far easier experience to develop.
From the beginning, the pictures shared on Radar weren’t necessarily “photographs” as such, especially when cameraphone quality was laughably poor. More often than not they were a way of sharing a status update with your friends, or ‘checking in’ somewhere, or somehow conveying more than just the content of the picture.”Back before the world began TwitPic-ing (indeed, before the prevalence of internet-connected cameraphones was widely accepted as a Really Big Deal), Radar set out to be the best mobile photosharing/commenting platform for small groups of friends. I’m very proud of what we built with Radar, and I think we created something that was really unique and special at a time when it was difficult and scary to resist what Everyone Else was doing. In fact, I still think that’s true.
So it’s with a heavy heart that we announced today that we’ll be winding Radar down over the course of the next couple months. You can read the full announcement here.
To the many, many, people who had a part in making Radar into a living, breathing, frivolous, profound reality: thank you. Please don’t be a stranger.
I’m excited for what’s next.
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