Inspired by the epic Angry Birds for BlackBerry, Myspace VP Sean Percival has come up with a mock hypothetical of what the popular photosharing app Instagram would look like on the text-heavy and camera-weak BlackBerry platform. The above image is particularly humorous when coupled with the fact that Instagram, which just hit one million downloads, has not yet launched on Android.
Percival’s ultimate message here is intended to go beyond humor however as he’s actually posted the image to Instagram as an experiment, “With so many brands getting into Instagram I was curious how a piece of humor (or viral) content might do within the Instagram ecosystem itself. No doubt those brands will need to bring something more than that perfectly filtered photo of a kitty cat to make an impact.”
Going “Popular” or viral with “Likes” on Instagram has become a bit of a status symbol amongst the tech set as of late, and it will take some pretty creative maneuvering to get people to “Like” a branded photo of a Peets or Starbucks logo, no matter how artful.
Instagram is a free photo sharing application that allows users to take photos, apply a filter, and share it on the service or a variety of other social networking services, including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Flickr, and Posterous. The application is compatible with any iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch running iOS 3.1.2 or above or any Android device running Android 2.2 or above. In an homage to both the Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid cameras, Instagram confines photos into a square...
Sean Percival is an American blogger and author from Los Angeles, California. For work, Percival is the Vice President, Online Marketing at MySpace; for play, he is the founder of the Los Angeles-based technology blog lalawag. Formerly with Tsavo, Mahalo and Docstoc, Percival taps the real-time web to identify and develop content around today’s biggest Internet trends. Along with his wife Laurie, the Percivals were featured in the 2009 LAWeekly ‘People of the Year’ issue. They were affectionately titled...
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