Posts tagged Instagram
Flipboard is coming to Android
Hot on the heels of Instagram becoming available on Android, Flipboard (another hit iOS app) is now going to be heading to Android. It’ll start out as an exclusive for the Samsung Galaxy S III.
Why The Next Shoe To Drop Post-Instagram Is Apple Buying Twitter for $10 Billion
Eric Jackson, Forbes:
Sure Twitter could IPO but, realistically, it’s going to sell itself to either Apple, Google, or Microsoft.
Apple clearly has a good relationship with Twitter and on some levels I’m surprised Apple hasn’t bought Twitter already. It’ll be interesting to see whether Facebook’s purchase of Instagram makes that deal more likely.
Why Facebook bought Instagram
Om Malik at GigaOm:
Facebook and Instagram are two distinct companies with two distinct personalities. Instagram has what Facebook craves – passionate community. People like Facebook. People use Facebook. People love Instagram. It is my single most-used app. I spend an hour a day on Instagram. I have made friends based on photos they share. I know how they feel, and how they see the world. Facebook lacks soul. Instagram is all soul and emotion.
I agree with much of this. But, that said, I don’t think that Instagram were anywhere close to being a true rival to Facebook. I can see why it makes sense for Facebook to snap them up, but I don’t think Zuckerberg went for the buy because he was ‘scared shitless’.
Facebook has bought Instagram
Mark Zuckerberg:
We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience. We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks, the ability to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have followers and follow people separately from your friends on Facebook.
Wow. Pleased to see it’ll still be to some extent separate from Facebook.
How to install Instagram on your Android phone in 23 easy steps
This made me chuckle. As Fraser Spears tweeted, ‘for the love of sanity please tell me this is a spoof’.
I have a sneaking suspicion it’s not (even if not all Android users are finding it quite so convoluted.)
Path and Instagram are making Facebook look incredibly uninventive at mobile
Dan Frommer asks a very valid question in a post questioning the inventiveness of Facebook when it comes to their mobile apps:
When’s the last time Facebook really wowed you with something in mobile?
I’d go further: The Facebook app for the iPhone and iPad is thoroughly disappointing as well as being very buggy.
Introducing Instagram v2.0
A very nice update to Instagram, the photo app available exclusively on the iPhone. Follow the link for the full breakdown, but here’s the bullet points of the changes:
- Live filters – so fast, we let you see them live
- Four new filters
- Instant tilt-shift
- High-resolution photos - 10x larger than before
- Borders now optional
- One-click rotation
- New icon
