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Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by elorant »

ry0ohki wrote: post #30
elorant wrote: post #26

Next thing they'll add a bit sharing/voting and there goes Pinterest.

I think it's more of a final nail in the Flickr coffin. Pinterest is a completely different vertical (it's not even pictures necessarily, it's lots of random stuff on the web)

Or it could be a wake up call for Flickr.

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by wilfra »

terhechte wrote: post #21
iamben wrote: post #15

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Just posted the same thing on the other thread. Poor guys. I suspect this will butcher their traffic.

That's the danger that you get when your main product lives of someone else's main product. I'm the author of InstaDesk, an Instagram client for the Mac, and I've also always assumed that this day would come. This will probably affect me too, but not as hard as web.stagram and the like, since I'm offering several "pro" features that will probably never make it to the Instagram website. My next release will allow the…

I saw Kevin Systrom speak at Pando Monthly and he was asked this question in the QA, how they were doing to deal with developers and whether they'd be like Twitter (to which everybody laughed, but the question asker didn't expand).

Systrom said that they very much wanted people to do things that they themselves don't plan to do. He gave the example of a company printing photos to t-shirts. He left it mostly unstated but it was strongly implied that where their product goals are the same as what people are developing with their API, they'll have no reservations competing with people - or even forcing them to stop doing things.

So ya - if you want to be an Instagram developer it would seem the correct strategic path would be to do things they aren't doing and will probably never be interested in doing.

Kudos to Facebook for not falling victim to the innovators dilemma, and allowing Instagram to develop into a service that could very well end up killing what we know as Facebook today.

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

#36

Post by karpathy »

elorant wrote: post #32
ry0ohki wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's more of a final nail in the Flickr coffin. Pinterest is a completely different vertical (it's not even pictures necessarily, it's lots of random stuff on the web)

Or it could be a wake up call for Flickr.

Flickr already had at least 10 wake up calls over the last 5 years. They're not answering.

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

#37

Post by ceejayoz »

ry0ohki wrote: post #30
elorant wrote: post #26

Next thing they'll add a bit sharing/voting and there goes Pinterest.

I think it's more of a final nail in the Flickr coffin. Pinterest is a completely different vertical (it's not even pictures necessarily, it's lots of random stuff on the web)

I really doubt a service that crops your images to squares at a low maximum resolution is going to compete with Flickr.

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

#38

Post by terhechte »

wilfra wrote: post #35
terhechte wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the danger that you get when your main product lives of someone else's main product. I'm the author of InstaDesk, an Instagram client for the Mac, and I've also always assumed that this day would come. This will probably affect me too, but not as hard as web.stagram and the like, since I'm offering several "pro" features that will probably never make it to the Instagram website. My next release will allow the…

I saw Kevin Systrom speak at Pando Monthly and he was asked this question in the QA, how they were doing to deal with developers and whether they'd be like Twitter (to which everybody laughed, but the question asker didn't expand). Systrom said that they very much wanted people to do things that they themselves don't plan to do. He gave the example of a company printing photos to t-shirts. He left it mostly unstated…

Thanks for the info. It is good to know that they're not considering turning off the API or limiting it. There's very little information on the official channels about this.

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by terhechte »

iamben wrote: post #29
terhechte wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the danger that you get when your main product lives of someone else's main product. I'm the author of InstaDesk, an Instagram client for the Mac, and I've also always assumed that this day would come. This will probably affect me too, but not as hard as web.stagram and the like, since I'm offering several "pro" features that will probably never make it to the Instagram website. My next release will allow the…

Benedikt - I bought and loved Instadesk many months back (before I got the Nexus 7, which is now my primary Instagram browser). I really hope this doesn't hit you too hard and wish you the best for your other products :-) That said, I really, really hope they don't allow people to post or register from the web. Spam is bad enough already.

Thanks! InstaDesk still has many features that their current web implementation doesn't have, so in the short term I expect the hit to be marginal, but in the long term it's good that I have other products lined up :)

You're right about the spam, but it always saddens me if somebody buys my app and can't use it due to the lack of an IG account (I'm stating this restriction right in the first sentence of the app description, but some people don't even read that).

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