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

well this goes back to what I said above - if fb really feels threatened enough to drop a billion on these dudes, is its hold on social networking really as strong as people think?

idea for iphone app:
Redophane -- makes it so that when you look at stuff through your iphone camera, it looks like you're looking through a red piece of cellophane.

ive pivoted and now quirky is an augmented reality app where you look through yr iphone and everything in the world is worthy of backlash

high dynamic range will be the new trend in social media photos and everything is gonna look super awesome and gross, get ready

http://static.blinqphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/hdr-truck.jpg

http://oldpeoplefacebook.tumblr.com

xp why does that picture look like something that would have been airbrushed on the side of a panel van sometime in the late 70's?

A: "Whatcha sprayin' on yer van, buddy?"
B: "The van I'm gonna be drivin' in thirty years time!"

if fb really feels threatened enough to drop a billion on these dudes, is its hold on social networking really as strong as people think?

it may be less a matter of "feeling threatened" and more one of seeing opportunities, preferring co-option to combat, etc.

LDR versions of HDR photos always look super weird

or low-rez, i guess i should say

seeing opportunities...in filters...on pictures

one billion dollars worth of opportunities

Seeing opportunities in grabbing all the personal details of all the people who apply filters to their pictures.

But as Lincoln said, you can't have all of the personal details of all of the people all of the time, because, erm... they stop using your website and then shoot you in a theatre. Or something...

and they way they share them, and follow them, and the idea that this might be worked into FB. makes good sense to me, especially if it's as popular as they say.

xxxp I saw LDR and thought "Lana Del Ray? Huh?"

really though I'm not really prepared to think anything until I get the take of a markers on this

if instagram steals facebooks photos and twitter steals their status updates and foursquare takes location and blah blah etc soon theres nothing people use facebook for anymore and the mall sits defunct and forlorn

its ironic that fb has spent all this energy trying to be everything to everyone when people seem more n more happy to use diff services for each thing, sometimes they route that stuff through fb but increasingly not so much

― lag∞n, Monday, April 9, 2012 3:53 PM (26 minutes ago)

*certain* ppl are happy to use diff services for each thing - but fb still trounces everybody else in terms of users and visitors, and if they're able to successfully absorb serious competitors they can guard their flanks. the trouble will come by A) distinguishing serious competitors from the thousands of flash in the pan timewasters like formspring, B) competitors that have something which can't be easily absorbed into facebook's hive of villainy, or C) competitors that flat our refuse to be acquired because they think they can take the crown. frankly C is prolly the most dangerous type of threat to fb, tho A could collapse them under their own rome-like weight.

c/r the last time I checked in on twitter fwiw

facebook both seems like the best guess for 'tech company that won't exist in 20 years' and 'only tech company that will exist in 20 years'

(w/r/t the amazon/google/fb/microsoft/apple 'giants')

groupon will not exist in 2 years

brb starting poopon, social network for scat enthusiasts

I think I posted about my plan to start grouporn.com in the "terrible ideas" thread

it would basically be social coupons for porn, which is why it's a terrible idea

Already been done.
http://www.poopon.it/

lol @ ".it"

I had to double-take for a moment, at first thinking it was an Italian site.

Like I was asking myself if poop jokes were big in Italy.

brb making hostile takeover bid for http://www.poopon.it/

poopon.de

poopon.me
poopon.us
poopon.yu

Facebook seems like the hardest to replace of all the big social things. I haven't looked at Twitter since I downloaded Zite (I was mostly using Twitter for interesting links - I don't really give a shit what celebs think about 140 characters at a time), I never see G+, I never look at the social aspect of Instagram (use the app to take a picture, post to FB sometimes), etc..

fb the web site is super easy to replace, fb the network of 'everyone on the world who does not live in china' is not

the weird thing about instagram as social network is that it's pretty hard to discover new stuff on it, I don't ever really "stumble across" anything on it without a good amount of effort (looking at photos that the other people you're following have liked is the best way I guess)

people who have a lot of fans on instagram seem to do it through using 8 million hashtags on every photo which is just super tedious and dumb

I don't really understand the backlash here, it's mostly coming from people that check their FB like all day on who commented on their Instagram posts and it doesn't make any sense other than yeah it's cool to hate FB.

how come instagram ate flickr's lunch?

(NB have never used the former, but use flickr on the reg)

flickr can't decide if it wants to be social or professional

also (I'm guessing) really bad iphone integration

yeah the flickr app is pretty terrible

lol flickr

wait a minute everybody, markers has an opinion about flickr

I never started a flickr account cause I realized putting my photos on the site just made me feel like a shitty photographer

whereas stuff like instagram makes everyone feel like a great photographer

My flickr profile has no coherence since it's half shitty cell phone pics from 2006 and half semi-artsy pictures I took on vacation.

yeah i get the feeling that a lot of people see flickr as like a permanent showcase instead of a streaming conversation, there a hesitation to use it unless you're really "proud" of a particular picture.. i guess instagram is more disposable and immediate, like a tweet rather than a blog post? if so, i can see why they're considered competitors for FB, or something that FB wants to own

flickr was around at the right point to where they could have diverged and done well in multiple spaces, but instead Yahoo bought them and then did jack shit for yeeeears

flickr really did seem like the future for a little while.. it was the first real "web page that acts like a full-featured app" that i ever saw.

I think flickr actually costs yahoo money because of the unlimited storage for pro accounts, idk

instagram prob largely own its success to the fact that its not a full featured app

like you open it and the camera is on, you press a button to take a picture, then you press another button to share

Nah, not for that reason, at least. Storage for photos is relatively cheap, even now with really high-res ones.