Why SnapFish’s acquisition of MeraSnap doesn’t mean much

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1. MeraSnap has been acquired by Snapfish and while this could be termed as the first successful web2.0 exit, I really don’t think that’s the case.
   MeraSnap’s business model wasn’t really different from several other online photo printing service and if you look at their Alexa’s traffic (I know Alexa is not even close to correct, but let’s look at relative traffic), MeraSnap stands on the lowest section of the traffic graph.
   I believe it was more of "this is not going anywhere, lets move on" sale and that’s why the merasnap founders aren’t joining the
   
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