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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
they paid $1 per photograph too
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
and only $55 million per filter
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
so really this is just fb being really, really, really risk averse w/r/t competition
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
er, Instagram not hipstamatic. (but them too)
collapps
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
a billion chinese, mark
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
he was 100% serious too
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds kinda fun xp
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
challaps
― flopson, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
well everyone pretty clearly looked the wrong way on groupon
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
sorry already sued you plz pay 1 billion dollars
― flopson, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
― 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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
― 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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
hint: the public won't be one of the winners.
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
i have a bunch of app ideas, feel free to PM me if u are a VC
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
― 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 (twelve years ago) link
otm a lot of people just use it as a less annoying Plixi with square cropping
― dmr, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Instagram makes full-resolution (for the iPhone/iPad camera and given the square crop) files. They should be good for 8x8 prints now.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
btw instagram has like 15 employees everyone
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I agree but the underlying assumptions about what was going to happen in the late 90s seemed 'more optimistic' than they do today, which allowed for a bigger bubble. there def will be winners and the giants today are a lot more savvy than the giants back then.
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
"gamification of reality" hopefully also a bubble
― the late great, Monday, 9 April 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
reality is a bubble
When you post a picture on Instagram and then share it with your friends, Instagram know who your friends are, and can build up a map of who knows who. And this is worth $$$, somehow.
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
because Facebook and now Instagram are really just NSA fronts
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
will check it out.
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chef reactions is v good, i dig it!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 September 2024 19:38 (yesterday) link
sodastream has been advertising a lot more lately.
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