Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

The aesthetic similarity to Facebook is pretty striking. Now you really can <i>see</i> why Instagram was bought, and where it's headed.

Alternate title: "Announcing the serious Facebook competitor that could have been."

There are already several 3rd parties on the web offering this service (e.g., web.stagram.com, statigr.am), wonder how they'll take this.

You might take this as an opportunity to disable Instagram access to some of the apps made redundant by this new feature: <a href="https://instagram.com/accounts/manage_access" rel="nofollow">https://instagram.com/accounts/manage_access</a>.

Very interesting. Begs the question to whether facebook plans to disrupt itself with the Instagram acquisition somewhere down the line.

I'm surprised they didn't bake a deeper integration with Facebook profile and photos instead of making Instagram more Facebook-like with potentially competing features. As a user I do think this is the right approach to keep both services running as separate networks, but in the long term I'm not sure if operating as independent kingdoms will be sustainable if they continue to merge closer in features. Facebook Camera now offers filters, Instagram now has profiles in browser... Maybe its own news feed next? Not to mention profile and news feed fatigue that could hurt engagement for both...<p>But that's all cynical speculation, congrats to FB and Instagram for not killing off Instagram. My gut says that's the right decision.

It's interesting how the Instagram profile pages look kinda like facebook's. The cover photo, the layout and the way everything is arranged.

<p><pre><code> Web profiles will launch to all Instagram users in the next week or so. If you can’t see your profile yet, rest assured that you’ll see it in the next few days. </code></pre> Can anyone explain why this might be (the delayed roll out)?

Next thing they'll add a bit sharing/voting and there goes Pinterest.

I write a crawler for stats related to instagram profiles. This will make life much easier because soon enough all the other web profiles for Instagram will become less popular.

Wishfully, as I scrolled, I was hoping for: "To opt out of profiles..."<p>This may be great. I'd just rather take a wait-and-see approach.

These look nice. I assume it's only a matter of time before these are encapsulated in Facebook?

this is really...safe (and boring). there are a myriad of more interesting ways mobile photos could be arranged and displayed. perhaps geo-tagged? people? instead a grid. temporally arranged. that looks like my fb profile. yawn.

It's hard to say if you're not into it, but I wouldn't have sold.

They should probably find a way to make Emojis work

Did Facebook bring about this change? Interesting.

Why don't numbers have commas?

Why didn't they just buy <a href="http://instagre.at" rel="nofollow">http://instagre.at</a>?

I think this was really needed… you only need to look at the various sites web.stagram.com, pictajam.com, instaprof.appspot.com, ink361.com and more to know that people <i>really</i> wanted this.<p>Great, however — there is no way to take your photos with you without using the API (and thusly, oauth).<p>I was really hoping for an RSS/Atom feed, or a JSON endpoint that didn't require auth.<p>Do you think this is an oversight on instagrams' part, or was I just misguided in my hopes?

All I have to say is, About Fucking Time. How did they not have this feature before?

Hmm. Very pinteresting.