Inspiration From Vintage - Polariod for Instagram

Instagram made headlines when it bought up by Facebook. A great value that automatically make Kevin Systrom (28) and Mike Krieger (26), two Stanford University graduate as a young upstart. Site mercurynews called after purchase Facebook, Kevin and Mike declined to be interviewed.

Kevin graduated from Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 2006. In a business that is still short trail, he has helped decorate the biggest names in social networking - the first intern at Odeo - which became known as Twitter. He spent two years at Google - as part of the team that developed the Gmail and Google Reader.

His colleague, Mike Krieger, born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and came to the U.S. in 2004 to study at Stanford. Master's thesis Questioning how user interfaces can better support on a large scale. After graduation he worked at Meebo instant messaging company for 1.5 years as a user experience designer and front-end engineers.

Both are inspired to make Instagram app - initially launched exclusively for the iPhone in the fall - from old Polaroid photos. Similar to Polaroid that can be printed immediately and views, Instagram also wanted to share this photo to his friends immediately without waiting for hours or days.

Image from the camera is always shaped box, rare colors are not common as it is created through the existing filters in Instagram. Initially they thought of other ideas, but they discarded that idea and simply just want to share your photos. That's it.

"We want to change and improve the way the world communicates and shares," said Kevin Systrom. This application is designed to be able to connect with social networking sites - including Facebook, of course. Within a few hours of the application is downloaded by 10,000 users. The number touched 200,000 in the first week.

When interviewed Crazyengineers site, Kevin explains how the Instagram app works. "All the filter is a map inputs to outputs. Takes a pixel in and push a pixel out. Way that you can think only serves as a filter function."

He added that the photos appear due to the reduced speed of data needed to produce the image. "The magic behind the rapid terunggah simple. We do not upload the full resolution. Rather than upload a 3 MB mending 60 kb, but with a big difference in reliability."

In an interview with The Times, 4 April 2012, Kevin said that he does have a background in photography. "Every Christmas, I have a new camera and it can be an important part of my life," he said.