Instagram

=Instagram =

An Instant Success
[|Instagram] is a free photo-sharing app for Apple mobile devices, which was introduced in October of 2010 by California, based toc Burbn, Inc. Developed in 8 weeks, by co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Instagram attracted 100,000 users in its first week and 12 million users in its first year. The Instagram App service combines the ability to apply filters to mobile device photos with social networking capabilities. In addition to integrating Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr accounts, Instagram users can have followers, tag their photos, and “like” photos by other users. As a visual microblogging platform, Instagram has attracted users from a variety of industries, including fashion designers, news organizations, sports teams, and musicians. Libraries, museums, and other information organizations have not been early adapters of this new platform, but there are several tags devoted to libraries, books, novels, reading, and art. While the Instagram developers have chosen not to expand display options beyond the mobile device interface, other app and website developers are generating services that take advantage of the constant stream of Instagram photos. Instagram developers currently have no plans to expand to other mobile operating systems, but are rumored to be pursuing video sharing capabilities.

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Instagram Community Guidelines
From http://help.instagram.com/customer/portal/topics/46633-community-guidelines/articles 
 * **Be respectful** - If you wouldn't do it in real life, you probably shouldn't do it on Instagram.
 * **Don't post photos you didn't take -** It's simple: If you didn't take it, don't post it.
 * **No nudity or mature content** - Do not upload photos that show nudity, mature content or illegal activity of any kind.

Calling All Instagrammers
In addition to online networking, Instagrammers are encouraged to "meetup" in the real world at InstaMeets. There are currently over 700 real world community groups of Instagrammers in 182 cities worldwide, which are organized through Instagram at []. Large cities, like New York and San Francisco, have community groups with over 250 members, while some groups have as few as ten members. These groups meet to share and discuss photos, or take and post photos together. The Instagram blog posts some suggestions for planning and promoting meet up activities. Photo Walks and Photo Scavenger Hunts are popular meet up activities. All InstaMeet activity photos are tagged with #instameet and #instameetyourcity, such as #instameetcolumbia so they are easily located in an Instagram search.

Image by Flickr user kpvl and used under the Creative Commons License.

Instagrammers You May Know


<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Instagram Integration
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Several App and website developers have already integrated Instagram into their applications.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Display Options
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">@http://extragr.am/popular <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">@http://inkstagram.com/ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">@http://web.stagram.com/ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">@http://cartagr.am

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Keepsakes
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Photo Albums:[| http://www.keepsy.com/] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Magnets: Sticky Gram [] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Postalpix – An iPhone/ipod/ipad App print square (and other) photos

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Library Science Connection

 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Publicity – publish photos from the events and displays in the library.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Networking with other librarians, libraries, and information organizations
 * Establish unique tags for conferences or regional library systems
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Promote a sense of community with your usersSponsor an InstaMeet event
 * Establish a unique tag for the library and share it with the community
 * Display Instagram photos tagged by users online and offline

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**References**
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Burbn, Inc. (2011). About us. Retrieved from http://instagr.am/about/.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Burbn, Inc. (2011). InstaMeets. Retrieved from http://blog.instagram.com/instameets.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Guynn, J. (2011, July 17). How I made it: Kevin Systrom. Los Angeles Times, pp. 2B. Retrieved from LexisNexis Academic.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">O’Brien, C. (2011, May 30). Why Instagram is the hot iPhone app of the moment. San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved from LexisNexis Academic.