Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Instagram announced on its blog its plan to go ahead with web profiles, which will allow you to share your profiles over the web. To see your profile, or to explore a friend’s profile, simply navigate to instagram.com/[username].
The header images keep transitioning like live Windows Phone tiles and on first glance they look very similar to the Facebook or Google Plus photo streams. When you hover your mouse over the individual images below the header, you can see date when the image was taken alongwith the likes and comments (below). On clicking on the image, it pops out with the web-based viewer.
The web profiles page does not have the option to search images either
by name or tags, which we found a bit strange. Option to upload images
from your computer or the web was, as expected, not present. Also
missing is the Photo Maps option which is present in the app. All of
these handicaps clearly ensure that Instagram is heavily focussed on
mobile. The web profiles roll out is expected to
be completed over a week's time, so it is alright if your web profile
is not visible at the moment. You will need to check back after a week. You can read more here.
