Im still very confused by instagram. What do they do that others dont? They announced a partnership with foursquare to provide photos to checkins a month ago. So you now need two apps to do what facebook does natively? And then you realize that less than 2 million people use these apps as opposed to the 600 million that use facebook?
I know that silicon valley has gone crazy for instagram, I guess I just dont see the need for a company that simply adds "filters" to your photos (of course only those taken on an iphone).
What happens when Apple says, "hey this filter thing is really cool, lets add it to our camera app" (just like they did with HDR)
It's not just a Silicon Valley thing. According to a report in TechCrunch "roughly half of Instagram’s users are not just outside of the Silicon Valley bubble, but outside of the entire United States."
Instagram is a really great app for filtering your photos before you upload them to Facebook. "Vintage" filters work well for covering up many of the flaws in photos taken with cell phones.
Personally, I find actually sharing photos on instagram to be much less compelling. My whole social graph is already on Facebook.
Full disclosure: I have a ridiculous personal bias on this topic, since I work on Facebook photos.
Is that Gizzable that's overlaying the annoying box of like/vote tools making it difficult to actually read the page? There's no drag capability so it doesn't mask the content??
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 56.2 ms ] threadWe pronounce it Giz-ah-bull, but this is the internet, I suppose you could pronounce it however you wanted.
Is it G as in Guy or G like Giovanni or Giselle (similar to a J sound)?
Gizable as in:
?EDIT: coincidentally, not 5 minutes later I came across this: http://gizmodo.com/5749451/how-the-hell-do-you-pronounce-gif...
The name Gizmodo is pretty clear to me as the hybrid of gizmo and modo, planting it firmly in the "guh" G sound.
But Gizable.... not so clear!
But you can say it however you please. =P
I know that silicon valley has gone crazy for instagram, I guess I just dont see the need for a company that simply adds "filters" to your photos (of course only those taken on an iphone).
What happens when Apple says, "hey this filter thing is really cool, lets add it to our camera app" (just like they did with HDR)
To me, it feels like a more personal photo club. I end up sharing photos that I wouldn't normally post to Facebook.
Plus, the filters make me feel like a skilled photographer. ;)
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/instagram-funding/
Personally, I find actually sharing photos on instagram to be much less compelling. My whole social graph is already on Facebook.
Full disclosure: I have a ridiculous personal bias on this topic, since I work on Facebook photos.
I tried to get into instagram, but I felt that without a web interface, the app is useless to me.