I am so not "getting" this Instagram thing / do you guys want to look at each others pictures?

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.

if i had one the mega millions i would've bought scoopsnoodle for $1 million

won*

so they paid like 35 bucks per user

still smh

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

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

they paid $1 per photograph too

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

and only $55 million per filter

so really this is just fb being really, really, really risk averse w/r/t competition

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.

I've met so many people in the past couple years who just want collab on apps

er, Instagram not hipstamatic. (but them too)

collapps

a billion chinese, mark

hipstamatic's problem is that it's called hipstamatic

I dunno, everything has a stupid name these days

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

he was 100% serious too

so they paid like 35 bucks per user

― 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

that sounds kinda fun xp

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?

challaps

How about an app where you can share your challops with your friends? Call it 'challapp'.

instagram is also a big image service for twitter users so its a way for facebook to get some inroads to twitter

xp oh balls flopson got there first plz don't sue me

well everyone pretty clearly looked the wrong way on groupon

sorry already sued you plz pay 1 billion dollars

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, 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.

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/

xxp Fortunately I foresaw this and invented a currency called 'snoball dollars' - current exchange rate is about a trillion snoball dollars to the US$.

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, 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

hearing people who just want to develop shit for money talk irl scares the fuck out of me

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

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

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 program
b) 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 it
c) there are probably already 40 of these

hint: the public won't be one of the winners.

well the first internet bubble had the same qualities -- legit value underneath some of it, limited number of winners.

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.

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.

er, Instagram not hipstamatic. (but them too)

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

i have a bunch of app ideas, feel free to PM me if u are a VC

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, 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

instagram is also a big image service for twitter users so its a way for facebook to get some inroads to twitter

otm a lot of people just use it as a less annoying Plixi with square cropping

Why are the pictures people take worth so much to Facebook and Instagram?

I assume that this is a big part of it. In 2092, the U.S. Department of Commerce with the Bureau of Census and Online Media will release the first installment of the 2020 Tumblr and Facebook profiles.

Instagram makes full-resolution (for the iPhone/iPad camera and given the square crop) files. They should be good for 8x8 prints now.

the Instagram filters can be bad, but square is a more sensible format for what people use cell phones for than the oddball vertical format of the iPhone.

btw instagram has like 15 employees everyone

whoops never realised that

fascinated by king rupesh https://www.instagram.com/kingrupesh81/

i thought Instagram was famous for its square pictures, but i logged in again yesterday and got a grid that was three portrait pictures across, all cropped badly

square as default was done away with like five years ago

and yet they still can't handle the exotic 4x6 ratio, for some ungodly reason

shows how much i use it.

my home feed seems to be mostly strangers posting video+. i think i have like 2 people i follow posting regularly, the rest having done what I've done - create a basic account with 4 pictures in it in order to lurk

+mostly farage, accidents, sport, things i have no interest in.

From square-only (before my time of using it), Instagram has gradually improved flexibility on aspect ratio of photos. For a time you couldn't mix portrait and landscape in a post containing multiple photos, but now you can. But there are still issues and bugs. After posting something, I have to go to 'Adjust preview' to get all the photos to display in the correct aspect ratio, despite having already selected 'Mixed' at the time of posting. Also, when clicking through to a photo via the link in a notification of a like, the wrong aspect ratio is still shown.

also, a lot of that is only implemented in the mobile app. really hate this thing where desktop interfaces are just completely left to rot.