Instagram, a photo-sharing application, rolled out another version of its software. Their pending billion-dollar sale to Facebook is definitely not a sign to relax but
instead they created a new fresh look to this trending application. The update
includes new fresh look of users’ profiles, capability of users to mark
comments as spam and rectifying on performance bugs. But the highlight of the
said update is the addition of a photo map on members’ Instagram accounts. Well,
how does this photo map works?
Kevin Systrom,
Instagram’s chief executive and one of the founders said that, “If the last
version was all about production and taking the perfect picture, then this
version is really about new ways of browsing. You can explore photographs, not
just in a chronological order, but in geography.”
Instagram’s
photo map will scan for photographs that are already tagged with geographical
data and will ask users if they want to plot them. Users can also view the
photo maps of their friends. So every time you upload a photo, it will ask
whether or not you want to add the said photo to the photo map. Pretty easy,
right?
“We want to make
it clear what geotagging is and show how it lets you curate your own archive on
a map,” said Mr. Systrom. “Wouldn’t you want to look at the London Olympics as
it happens on Instagram?,” he added.
This famous
photo-sharing application is the latest trend even during the London Olympics
where athletes took pictures of them off the court and shared it to millions of
Instagram users. To date, only 15 to 25 % of Instagram users add their location
to uploaded photos.
Source: New York Times
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