Although it’s kind of cool to see your photos mapped out, for most of us here at Gadget Lab, the initial knee-jerk reaction was “Yikes! This is creepy.” It was also a huge reminder of how easily we can forget that our location information is tracked and stored by apps.(via Instagram 3.0’s New Maps Feature: A Privacy Wake-Up Call? | Gadget Lab | Wired.com)
"Because as fun as it is to share iPhone photos conveniently on Instagram, that can’t be my only photography: I also need some photos that won’t look like shit when I look back on them in the future."
#photography
#iphone
#instagram
#marco arment
"We feel the need to ‘contribute’ constantly, so we end up taking hundreds of photos and sharing them on Instagram to fill the void and feel, just for a moment, that we’ve made an impression."
Some of this sounds a lot like the early rants against Twitter (see: ‘who cares what you had for breakfast?’) but he makes some reasonable arguments.
"the secret rooms or private spaces online where we can share, chit-chat and hang out with our friends are fading. The few safe havens that do exist are quickly being encroached upon or are next on the shopping list for a company like Google, Apple or Facebook. The few proposed alternatives are still in their infancy. (Diaspora? Hello. Hi. Still there? ) And it is clear that our personal data and online interactions are so valuable that they are powering the Web’s future."
The death-by-paparazzi of (virtual) third places continues.
Digital Diary: Instagram and the Internet’s ‘Secret’ Places - NYTimes.com
"#instagram acquisition by the numbers: $77 million per employee (http://ow.ly/aarvG), $33 per user (http://ow.ly/aarER)"
#instagram
