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and tagged it with Links Social Networks In just nine months, the photo-sharing startup hit 150 million pix and more than 7 million users who upload about 1.3 million photos daily (15 per second).
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It took Flickr, one of the world’s largest photo-sharing sites, close to 2.5 years to reach 150 million photos, which could be uploaded from any computer and shot on any camera. But it took San Francisco-based startup Instagram roughly just nine months to hit that same milestone–with just one mobile app, available on just one device maker’s OS (Apple’s).
The interview and article is from FastCompany.com. The interview is good but I think the comparison between Instagram and Flickr that’s made by the author is unnecessary and incorrect.
Instagram has grown faster than flickr, that’s true, but I don’t think the comparison is very good. To me flickr is clearly a service aimed at photographers, amateurs and professionals alike. The users main focus is to show photos as art. Instagram is much more of a ”traditional” social network, but with images instead of text.
Just to clarify, I love Instagram and use it as a way of telling people I know about what I’m up to. I also love Flickr.
(Extra bonus irony-points to the article for using a picture from Flickr for illustration. Tough, I don’t think irony was what they were aiming for.)
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This is the first picture I’ve taken with my new camera that I’m reasonable happy with. More will likely come.
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and tagged it with Links A personal favourite:
Lion’s new Resume feature automatically opens any application’s documents that were active when the app was quit. That can be jarring to people who traditionally quit an app when finished with a document. To ensure that a completed document does not automatically open the next time you launch the application, hold Option and choose [the Application Name] > Quit and Discard Windows, or press Command-Option-Q. Alternatively turn this feature off completely in the General system preference pane; you can then ensure that an open document does automatically open the next time you launch the application, again by holding Option as you quit the application.
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Like so many other geeky people I’m a member of many social networks. The ones I actually use is twitter (@synvila), Instagram (mrhenko), Flickr (synvila) and Gowalla (mrhenko), and then there’s this blog. However, lately I think I’m starting to differentiate them in various ways and I’m seeing what I use each and every one of them for.
This blog is for longer or semi-long mostly tech related topics. It can also be links to techy things I find interesting and the occasional photo that I’ve taken. For this I use English as language. (Mostly American English.)
My tweets is almost always in Swedish. They also tend to be more or less geeky.
Instagram has really taken over twitter’s place as a network to tell people what I’m doing. It is quickly becoming my photo journal and if you’re interested in me as a whole person, not just as a geek, (although the geeky part is a pretty big part of me) this is where you should be following me.
Flickr is for my more or less ”ambitious” pictures. Here I post things that not necessary say anything about what I’m up to. It’s me pretending to be a photographer.
Gowalla is more or less dead to me. It feels a lot like last summers great romance. I still check in to places from time to time, but the check-ins are getting more and more far apart.
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and tagged it with Browsers WordPress I just picked up my secondary computer and logged in on this blog. The first thing I saw was WordPress telling me that I use an old browser. Since Safari 5.1 is out, apparently 5.0.5 is considered old. This is a fairly aggressive mode (I prefer to see things like IE6/7/8 and Firefox 3 as old) but I love it.
Good work WordPress! Anything that make people update their browsers more often is great.
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and tagged it with Photos Earlier this week I bought a new camera; a Canon EOS 550D.
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and tagged it with Status The blog is not dead. It’s just on holiday.
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and tagged it with Links Software patents Trolls This is so sad in every possible way. Patent trolls are really the lowest of humans. (Longer post about software patents likely to come soon.)
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and tagged it with Status Just added some features to my WordPress theme that enables me to make better use of post formats. Nothing much but it keeps my interest in the blog running.
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