this is really...safe (and boring). there are a myriad of more interesting ways mobile photos could be arranged and displayed. perhaps geo-tagged? people? instead a grid. temporally arranged. that looks like my fb profile. yawn.
Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web
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Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
From the horses mouth, 1:38:30 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgn2fhZBAVA&feature=fvsr
Definitely didn't say anything about not having an API going forward.
Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web
#63I write a crawler for stats related to instagram profiles. This will make life much easier because soon enough all the other web profiles for Instagram will become less popular.
Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Considering yours is a paid service, I would hope you're already thinking of something else, because im sure the FB TOS will block you and besides, if someone wants a customizable free version then they just use tumblr with one of the millions of these (or make one by hand) If your product service offered a channel from instagram to tumblr and it didn't violate the TOS for FB then your product might have a future, bu…
We're planning to support a variety of services, not put all our eggs in one basket. Tumblr, webstagram and all these sites do not offer the same service as us. Maybe our marketing needs work. We're paid because we allow you to CHOOSE ANY of your Instagram photos to make a portfolio from through caching a user's feed and using the realtime API to keep it up to date. All the other services simply wrap the API and show…
But how hard is it to post photos to a custom theme'd tumblr for free? Being able to select which photos from the instagram feed end up on a tumblr page isn't a feature worth $5/month. It's trivial to share photos to both instagram and tumblr
Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's an incredibly obvious direction for Instagram to expand in so I'd hope they had some plan for this
Rake in as much cash as possible from their ads whilst Instagram aren't doing it and then wind it down? I can't see what other benefit they'd bring over the official site (except as another post noted, RSS feeds).
Exactly - it's like the Twitter developer relationship, where you just have to assume that they're going to coopt your business at any time if all you're doing is repurposing their API.