fufulabs
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Partner at http://fufulabs.com an iOS + Android outsourcing company
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Comment · 14 years ago
Hi, we made an app called Tinygram (http://tiny.by) that I think is more Instagramm-y (uggh!) than this.
Its not done yet (missing a few big features) but it has a smaller canvas 10x10 and a unique way of choosing color shades and doing animation. It already has a sizeable community and sputtering of new content (pixel art is hard for most people we discovered.)
It is an interesting community building experience so far.
Anyhow in case you are curious on how closer it is to Insatgram, its free at http://bit.ly/tinygramming .
Comment · 14 years ago
We built an app thats scarily similar in spirit to this. its at http://tiny.by Pretty cool coincidence
Comment · 14 years ago
It will coerce/force a % of users to use the 1st party apps. It will also allow them to focus on media platform features without the distraction of pleasing 3rd party devs (at the moment). I am pretty sure they will improve that side AFTER they have finished being a destination platform.
Comment · 14 years ago
This removes their duality of being a media / service play. This is highly beneficial to Twitter itself as well as to a new service/platform aiming to be a pure microblogging piping service. The only loser here are the Twitter app developers and startups which are faced with a now limited channel to promote their apps.
Comment · 14 years ago
At least list out the 50 countries. After reading the blog post and hunting on their site for 10 minutes, i still cannot find the countries Plivo is compatible with.
Comment · 14 years ago
I have joined and paid $100 but my biggest concern is they are VC funded which is a more insidious position for someone to pressure them to do something not in line with the current vision. Also, there is a long line of startups that hate advertising at first then acquiesced when the only budget big enough to cover their burn rate are the ones advertisers have. This includes Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.