Like my new Instagram web profile?
http://instagram.com/mariosundar
Since Instagram doesn’t allow you to do anything with this newly launched web profile, the sole purpose of this move seems to be “increase followers”, which (wait for it) is the holy grail for brands who’d like to use Instagram the same way they use Twitter.
But, for Instagram to be worth their time, they need an audience; hence public web profiles that allows you to share and grow that audience.
Sure, you can increase your followers too. But, it’s probably more about the brands.
p.s. I can’t believe Twitter let Instagram slip through their hands. Un-friggin-believable!
Sandy cover story on TIME Magazine; shot with Instagram on an iPhone.
A few years ago, I realized my best camera is the one I carry with me everywhere. So, I ditched my Leica D-Lux 5 and starting using Hipstamatic on my iPhone.
The proof of the pudding is in the photography.
The latest cover of Time, ‘Lessons from the Storm,’ was shot with an iPhone by Ben Lowy.
Yes, politicians give us many reasons to be cynical. But, a democracy gives us a reason to hope.
So go out there and celebrate your vote.
If the folks in the NPR story below can, so can you. You have no excuse.
Faces of the Voted: The Rockaways, Queens
“People are voting in the dark. There are no lights, there is no heat.”
It was how NPR’s Robert Smith described the situation at the polls early this morning, in the Rockaways, Queens, which is in one of the regions hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy’s wrath. Of the 38 polling stations that had to be relocated in the borough, 23 are here — in tents, outdoors, running on generators, and some without heat at all.