Instagram: Year in Review: 2011 in Numbers
Some amazing numbers from Instagram, well-deserved for a great product!
We’ve seen the Instagram community grow from 1 million to over 15 million users in 2011. To celebrate, we’re recapping the year’s activity in our Year in Review series.
Accounts
- 1 million: The number of accounts on Jan 1, 2011.
- 15 million (and counting): The number of accounts on Jan 1, 2012.
Photos
- 3: The average number of photos uploaded per second, one year ago.
- 60: The average number of photos uploaded per second, today.
- 400 million: The total number of photos shared on Instagram so far.
- 51,600+: The most likes on a single photo.
With the Android App coming soon, as mention in the interview with founder and CEO Kevin Systrom at Leweb, these numbers are sure to become even more impressive a head!
Source: instagram
Great insights from an episode of The Critical Path podcast hosted by Horace Dediu. Horace uses datapoints of past disruptions in UI to make a somewhat qualified guesstimate of when the next disruption in UI will occure. Apple’s launch of Siri falls well into the pattern that is being discussed.
Source: 5by5.tv
Why Facebook's Seamless Sharing is Wrong
A great post by Marshall Kirkpatrick over at ReadWriteWeb about social contracts and user expectations.
Critics say that Seamless Sharing is causing over-sharing, violations of privacy, self-censorship with regard to what people read, dilution of value in the Facebook experience and more.
I think this is a violation of the relationship between the web and its users. Facebook is acting like malware. It’s doubly bad because while the particular implementation of this feature has been executed so poorly, the fundamental ideas behind it have a lot of potential to deliver far more value from Facebook and the web to all of us.
Facebook is experimenting with a trend that countless organizations will engage in soon: leveraging our passively created activity data. Why do they have to be so creepy about it though?
Not only raising questions about how Facebook is implementing new feature, since Facebook seems to lack a sense for intuitive user privacy expectation, but more important putting attention on how things are trending for passive and implicit social signaling.
Source: readwriteweb.com
Web 2.0 Summit 2011: Mary Meeker, “Internet Trends” (by OreillyMedia)
This is the 8th annual “Internet Trends” report by Mary Meeker (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and ex-Morgan Stanley) presented at Web 2.0 Summit 2011, and it is considered one of the best researched report in the industry.
5 (of 12 trends total) that I found especially interesting
1. Globality
2. Mobile
3. User Interface
8. Mega-Trend of 21st Century
9. Authentic Identity
Over time everyone will have easy access to communications technology and mobile sensors, with the rise of identity systems on the network(s) and the massive shifts towards the Chinese Internet things are starting to getting really, really interesting!
A great summary over at RWW and the complete deck is available at KPCB and Scribd.
Source: youtube.com
The recent launch of iCloud and last nights outage of Siri made me think of this early episode of the Hypercritical podcast with Dan Benjamin and John Siracusa (of Ars Technica) where they analytically break down and present the key reasons why Apple efforts in the online service space are abysmal.
Source: 5by5.tv
Web 2.0 Summit 09: Qi Lu and Tim O’Reilly, “A Conversation (by OreillyMedia)
President of the Online Services Division at Microsoft Qi Lu talks about the challenges for serach ahead, he give some exciting insights of where he thinks things are heading in the search space.
Source: youtube.com
Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99? | Both Sides of the Table
Entrepreneur turned VC Mark Suster hosts a great podcast on all things VC called This Week in VC, in this posts he summarizes an interview with Gregg Spiridellis of JibJab where they discuss some interesting data when it comes to pricing strategy.
Another great IT Conversations recording, this is from the 2010 O’Reilly MySQL Conference, Jono Bacon, Community Manager for Ubuntu, gave a talk on the subject of creating and growing a vertical community.
Much of the best practices mentioned in the talk are in his book Art Of Community, which is available as a free e-book in several formats. Highly recommended reading about community mechanics at scale!
Source: itc.conversationsnetwork.org
