The Zuck™: I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook. We’re committed to building and growing Instagram independently. Millions of people around the world love the Instagram app and the brand associated with it, and our goal is to help spread this …
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Hipstamatic + Instagram
Hipstamatic is set to unveil a partnership with Instagram that allows photos taken on the camera app, which enables users to snap professional-looking pictures with stylized films and vintage-era lenses, to be ported directly into Instagram’s network with just one click. Hipstamatic, Instagram To Unveil Photo-Sharing Partnership →
Stuff Instagramers says
Scalability
Instagram | Flickr
Dan Catt, who fell in love with Instagram just a little bit, and out of love with Flickr, just a little bit over the holidays: Christmas morning was almost magical. The previous year on Flickr was almost as magical, once people had a chance to sort through the 100s of photos they’d taken with their …
Better Instagram-Facebook Integration
A thing I’ve been missing in Instagram — ever since I noticed that Path did it right — is that Instagram photos shared on Facebook were only an entry/story on your wall/timeline; The actual photo remained on Instagram and wasn’t actually uploaded to Facebook (*). Behold, today: Starting today, when you choose to share Instagram …
Gowalla ⇒ Facebook
Scott Raymond, co-founder and CTO of Gowalla confirms the rumors: It wasn’t an easy decision, but Facebook has always been a friend of the company, so joining their team is a natural move. I’m incredibly excited to work alongside folks that have already changed the world pretty profoundly, and who have an even bigger vision …
On Gowalla, Facebook, Instagram, Path, and Storytelling
I was meaning to write a blogpost on Gowalla 4. About how I used it less than before. But also about that when I use it (which I still do from time to time), I use it in a more engaged way. In the blogpost on Path 2, I was going to state that “Path …
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The Instagram Server Stack
This is how our system has evolved in the just-over-1-year that we’ve been live, and while there are parts we’re always re-working, this is a glimpse of how a startup with a small engineering team can scale to our 14 million+ users in a little over a year. What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens …
Instagram Unshredder Challenge: Javascript Solutions
Recently the engineers at Instagram challenged the interwebs to write some code that unshreds a chopped up image. Some of us took the liberty of solving the problem in Javascript, although it wasn’t one of the languages suggested. Solution by Joe Lambert Solution by Ron Ilan Solution by Diego Ferreiro Be sure to check and …
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