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
wasn't there another identical thing called hipstamatic?
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
xxp Fortunately I foresaw this and invented a currency called 'snoball dollars' - current exchange rate is about a trillion snoball dollars to the US$.
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, April 9, 2012 2:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
people talk abt this all the time at least in the tech media, maybe its not as much of a mainstream story because most of these companies are still privately held where the 1st tech bubble was all in the stock market
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
hearing people who just want to develop shit for money talk irl scares the fuck out of me
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't know if you can call this a bubble, there is srs, srs money in having detailed personal information on every single human in america, but there will be a limited number of winners
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I always feel like I should ask them if they've ever asked themselves why they're alive but then again I post on the internet so who g'saf
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wanted to design a bar bingo app that could be tailored to fit whatever kind of bar you're at
a) I don't know how to programb) I figured it would have to be social with leaderboards and Foursquare type coupons from bars and shit, but I don't know to do itc) there are probably already 40 of these
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
hint: the public won't be one of the winners.
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
well the first internet bubble had the same qualities -- legit value underneath some of it, limited number of winners.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
also I only hang out in dive bars, so the bingo app would be limited for pretty much everything else
yeah but the original internet bubble was built on assuming things about the way people were gonna use the internet that were wayyy out of line w/ how the internet was being used at the time.
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
from what I understand (e.g. reading one article on some camera blog) the Instagram photos aren't good enough to make prints off of. they're just web quality. (might be a bandwidth thing, even at the quality they are now it takes forever to load your feed and you have to have a good connection on your phone)
Hipstamatic photos are saved at higher quality and they do offer prints
― dmr, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
i have a bunch of app ideas, feel free to PM me if u are a VC
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
― iatee, Monday, April 9, 2012 2:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah i mean big companies came out of the last bubble too, maybe its just all ~creative destruction~ & the gamification of reality
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:50 (1 year 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 (5 months ago) Permalink
let's bring back Cellpwn Pics in 2013
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 22:30 (5 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I'm never going to top that helicopter landing in the hood.
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:00 (5 months ago) Permalink
oh hey they're working on rewording it
― mh, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:01 (5 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 (5 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 (5 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 (5 months ago) Permalink
only that many?
― mh, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 01:09 (5 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 (5 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 (5 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 (5 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 (5 months ago) Permalink
im on there as datpurp666 fyi
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 06:04 (3 months ago) Permalink