but yeah I generally find it annoying when people put those cheap instagram-type filters on their photos. The iPhone camera takes such nice photos so easily, and people ruin them with this hazy nostalgia bullshit.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Exactly my thoughts.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
iphone camera (at least anything before the 4S) kinda sucks
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't want to yell 'internet bubble' cause clearly fb and twitter and some things have a value that couldn't really have existed 10 years ago but this is just...a camera filter
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
wasn't there another identical thing called hipstamatic?
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
fb and google do this kinda thing all the time tho? buying up technology to integrate it into their own platforms... not that i'm saying instagram is worth ONE BILLION DOLLARS *dr evil pinky* but it's kinda their m.o.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah but why do you even need to 'buy up that technology', do they really have a patent on hipster-camera-filters? as hurting said they're not even the first to do this
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
my guess would be that instagram was working on some kind of expansion and fb caught wind of it and just decided to snatch whatever up whatever it was
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
instagram's "value" such as it is is in the social network aspect, not the filter aspect
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is just...a camera filter
― iatee, Monday, April 9, 2012 2:27 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
naw its a rapidly growing social network w/50m users whos main utility photo sharing is also facebooks main utility - idk abt the price but its obvs why facebook felt they needed to eat them
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah I guess it makes more sense in that context
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
I have never used it so I just see the pics *on* fb
ha guessing you all are not instagram users lol xp
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
really its "buying" 30 million users + ownership of the most popular photo-sharing social network. facebook loves photos b/c theyre significantly more interesting than links or status updates, as measured by the # of ppl who click on them and the amount of time they spned
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp joe otm
i mean that being said 1 billion dollars is hilarious
i want a billion dollars
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
have you considered making an 'app'
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
brb making an app
hipstamatic started out as just a camera filter app. they added on social stuff later after instagram took off.
or what max and joe said.
― dmr, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
if i had one the mega millions i would've bought scoopsnoodle for $1 million
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
won*
so they paid like 35 bucks per user
still smh
― the late great, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
no wonder my kids don't want to study math, obviously careers are for fools, i should be sitting around brainstorming the next killer social media platform
― the late great, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
number of instagram users should be getting a big bump up now that they have it for android too, the fact that they have as many users as they do and it was iphone only until last week is kinda crazy
― dmr, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
they paid $1 per photograph too
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
its hilarious b/c its so overvalued, but also because like "one billion" is such a funny number
~1million new instagram users is the first 24 hours of andriod
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
and only $55 million per filter
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
so really this is just fb being really, really, really risk averse w/r/t competition
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
hipstamatic could integrate a lot of products (books, prints, postcards) relatively easily. God knows if they'd actually make any money off of them, though.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've met so many people in the past couple years who just want collab on apps
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
er, Instagram not hipstamatic. (but them too)
collapps
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
a billion chinese, mark
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
hipstamatic's problem is that it's called hipstamatic
I dunno, everything has a stupid name these days
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
did I post about how I met one dude who wanted to create some kind of app where you could trade stocks within some graphic framework that had lasers and explosions, like you are in some sort of virtual high octane vid game action movie etrade world or something
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
he was 100% serious too
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
― the late great, Monday, April 9, 2012 2:37 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i wonder if part of facebooks thinking is theyre abt to go public and theyll be getting more than $35 per user so they could actually make money off the deal as soon as they ipo
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
that sounds kinda fun xp
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've not read anything about this being Internet Bubble 2.0 only for billions more - am I just not seeing it, or is everyone just kinda looking the other way?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
challaps
― flopson, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
How about an app where you can share your challops with your friends? Call it 'challapp'.
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
instagram is also a big image service for twitter users so its a way for facebook to get some inroads to twitter
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp oh balls flopson got there first plz don't sue me
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
well everyone pretty clearly looked the wrong way on groupon
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
sorry already sued you plz pay 1 billion dollars
― flopson, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, April 9, 2012 2:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no this is definitely talked about in the financial press, with the same kind of hedgy language that you probably see before any bubble burts, although tbf this actually isn't really as big a bubble in terms of sheer numbers of ridiculously valued companies.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
the other guy who was trying to get me to collapps was using the "fart app" from a while ago (that got bought for like a milli) as his example over and over of what is possible, like it was the pinnacle of apps, or for some reason it was the perfect app to explain every part of his ideas w/
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
right but you can opt out of that I think
― dmr, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 21:26 (6 months ago) Permalink
i "quit" instagram weeks ago-- instagram was going to be played out in 2013 before this news even hit
Well okay Jeane Dixon, so tell me where I should put my priceless photos of the sidewalk then.
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 22:12 (6 months ago) Permalink
let's bring back Cellpwn Pics in 2013
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 22:30 (6 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I'm never going to top that helicopter landing in the hood.
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:00 (6 months ago) Permalink
oh hey they're working on rewording it
― mh, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:01 (6 months ago) Permalink
Re: people not really caring about this, I think it's endemic of at least some subset of millennials who just don't seem at all bothered by really overt online invasions of privacy. Which I feel has something in common with "being famous" as a goal that some of these same people pursue. Some sort of complete dissolution of private walls in the value-free (in the "all publicity is good publicity" sense) pursuit of being seen/noticed (see also: the seemingly carefree proliferation of online nudie snaps). It's all part of some strange gestalt that I totally don't get and that marks the most overt sense I've ever had of a distinct generation gap between me and people younger than myself.
― Oral Kiosk (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:10 (6 months ago) Permalink
I don't think the issue is necessarily privacy, or even ownership, although these are both concerns. These are images that are already public in some ways, and I don't think the intent is to make them visible to individuals who couldn't already browse and find them.
It's entertaining that flickr is seen as a good alternative, which it mostly is, if you're worried about ownership. But flickr is more highly-searchable and -indexed than most sites, too. If you have public images, it's interesting to see who tags them as favorites or views them. I would get people coming from Google searches or flickr searches for concert pictures I took. Then there were cases where an image would get favorited, you check out their profile, and every image they've added is of a shirtless man. Or they only add images of people smoking cigars.
― mh, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:33 (6 months ago) Permalink
i once had 200+ views on a picture of my foot
― passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 01:06 (6 months ago) Permalink
only that many?
― mh, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 01:09 (6 months ago) Permalink
must have been on some "look at this grotesque picture of a foot" blog or sthg
― passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 01:11 (6 months ago) Permalink
whenever i think abt flickr i think about jaxon (r.i.p.) uploading a photo he took of his wife during a hike that some creep added to the "sweaty Asian women" group
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 01:15 (6 months ago) Permalink
eek
yeah, I was weirded out the other day when I realized that if you search for a famous actress or celebrity, the top few google search suggestions always include "x's feet"
― mh, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 02:55 (6 months ago) Permalink
1. Become global social megasite2. Buy rival3. Shut rival down by making all the users leave.4. MORE PROFIT!
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 15:26 (6 months ago) Permalink
im on there as datpurp666 fyi
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 06:04 (4 months ago) Permalink
is instagram dead? feel like ppl forgot abt it via vine/snapchat....
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 04:53 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I've got a truck driving buddy who takes some awesome road and sunrise instagrams from his cab.
If he moves on to vine and snapchat, I will throw up.
― pplains, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 04:58 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
i still instagram, all cats/bread/pizza all the time.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 06:46 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I see it used a lot. Pretty much the default client that people use on twitter other than the native one.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 11:29 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
http://www.pacifichelm.com/cameranoir/
― markers, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 00:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Looks nice, but I don't live near the Pacific.
― pplains, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 00:30 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
"Slide to download". Dear god, why?
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 10:35 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
datpurp666 is my name on there btw lets follow each other
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Thursday, 6 June 2013 03:27 (1 week ago) Permalink
wait slide to download, really?
― markers, Thursday, 6 June 2013 03:40 (1 week ago) Permalink
idg instagram spam accounts
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 6 June 2013 03:48 (1 week ago) Permalink
false hot girl with one photo of herself, 3 of how to get more followers, has 24k followers
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 6 June 2013 03:49 (1 week ago) Permalink