Instagram learns how to Move Fast and Break Things
Instagram backtracks on privacy changes following “Move Fast and Break Things” ethos of parent company, Facebook - Tech Tonic on Reuters TV
Polaroid died in 2008, leaving fans of its iconic instant camera unhappy. Enter The Impossible Project, a firm that’s turning iPhones into versions of the famed Instamatic.
Can anyone explain to me what they’re doing here?
Forget Instagram’s billion-dollar payday. Forget IPOs, past and future, from Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn and the like. And ignore, please, the online ramblings of attention-hungry venture capitalists and narcissistic Silicon Valley journalists with the off-putting habit of making their inside-baseball sound like the World Series. Their stories, to paraphrase Shakespeare, are tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, but signifying very little about the impact of technology on most of our lives.
But Zynga and Facebook? They seem more able to be toppled. It seems possible to knock them off of their throne. Two companies, OMGPOP and Instagram, came out of nowhere and became viable competitors. That’s kind of amazing. It’s amazing to me that Instagram got 30 million users in no time at all. It’s crazy that Draw Something can get 50 million downloads in 50 days. It’s mind blowing that Pinterest went from nothing to 10 million users in the blink of an eye. It’s amazing how fragile it all is. Facebook may be the first viable threat to Google, but its own market dominance is by no means assured.
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Social Media EXPLAINED
Instagram’s Kevin Systrom spoke about his app’s growth at TechCrunch Disrupt this morning. The photo sharing app has taken off in the last months.
Check out these stats:
10 photos posted per second, 4 million users, 4 employees.
That’s a million users per employee! No pressure, right? Not so…
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