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Hacking Instagram: release your photos under Creative Commons

46 pointsby philipnover 12 years ago

10 comments

hnriotover 12 years ago
How exactly is this hacking instagram? Isn't this just republishing instagram photos?<p>I presume the facebook licensing allows third parties to republish content uploaded to their servers.<p>I hate to sound cynical, but does the world really need more ways to share the plethora of crappy photos that is instagram?
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jbuzbeeover 12 years ago
The "Hacking Instagram" headline caught my eye. Not exactly related, but I also "Hacked Instagram" to add a whole bunch of new photo sharing options to the official Android Instagram App. There's no official way to add plugins, so I did it the hard way by having my app spawn Instagram and then monitor user-interactions within the app. When I detect a photo is ready, I bring up my sharing option menu so the user can send the photo via email, SMS, dropbox, Google+ etc, etc. It's a hack for sure, but was interesting to write:<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.houseblend.instaecho" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.houseblend...</a>
memnipsover 12 years ago
I'm a little slow today. Does this actually utilize an Instagram API to change the license on their side? If so I'm curious as to what the API call is as I believe it's undocumented.
francov88over 12 years ago
Great work, incredible idea and very functional MVP. Perhaps you can consider integrating IFTTT to make it even easier to share?<p>You need a marketing campaign around the concept.<p>Good luck!
yockover 12 years ago
Cool, I signed up. One thing to consider though would be to allow at some point different licenses for different images. I just inadvertently licensed some pictures of my daughter as attrib-share-alike. Admittedly my mistake, but it would be nice to have a way to have quickly corrected this since there seems to be no way to exclude any images.
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tommoorover 12 years ago
Seems like a great idea with a noble cause. I wonder if you will struggle to get people to signup though - perhaps you could appeal to people's vanity more and tell them they'll get more followers by signing up to CC. ;-)
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playhardover 12 years ago
Signed up and released my old photos too!<p><a href="http://i-am-cc.org/instagram/ramakanth_d" rel="nofollow">http://i-am-cc.org/instagram/ramakanth_d</a>
JackHerrickover 12 years ago
Fantastic work!<p>Wish Instagram had offered this option from their launch. Imagine how many great photos we would now have in the commons .
irunbackwardsover 12 years ago
Which CC license is being adopted?<p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/" rel="nofollow">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/</a>
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awwstn2over 12 years ago
Great work, Philip.