The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars

Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil... by ndcrandall on Monday April 09, 2012 @06:06PM (#3819486)

Facebook definitely had other motives for doing this. One such speculation is here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3819245

Others have been for their user base while some say it's for a talent acquisition (which I highly doubt). The title doesn't seem to imply that's why they bought Instagram.

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Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil... by bigiain on Monday April 09, 2012 @09:33PM (#3820250)

I've got other suspicions too…

I wonder what Instagram's privacy policy says about things like the exif data on all your photos? Almost certainly all geo-tagged. A bunch of data like "how often and how quickly individual users upgrade their iPhones".

Cynical-me wonders how much value FB placed on the non-FB social graph that Instagram built when it hoovered up everybodies contact list?

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