Photo sharing has evolved immensely over the decades. It has gone from simply uploading pictures so you can print them off, to now having many different venues to share and edit pictures to share with friends. Flickr, Myspace, Facebook, Photobucket, etc. have turned the once simple photo avenue into a competitive field. A new, and popular, photo sharing service called Instagram has been started with the iPhone.This application allows people to take photos via their phone, add visual effects, and instantly upload them to their Instagram accounts, or other social networking sites. Something I found rather interesting about this company is that it manages to stay within the competition even though it is such a small company. "Four-month-old photo-sharing service Instagram has 1.75 million users, four employees, and zero revenue". I was shocked to hear that 4 employees were responsible for such a revolution. To make an account with Instagram is completely free of charge, which is the result of their zero revenue. I enjoyed reading this article and seeing that even though a company is small, it can still holds its own amongst its large competitors, such as Google.
-Danielle Trasatti
Team 3
link: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_07/b4215043298221.htm
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