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FACEBOOK HAS ADDED smartphone video-sharing to its Instagram photo-based social network, in a move challenging Twitter’s popular Vine service.
“We need to do to video what we did to photos,” Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom said while unveiling Video On Instagram at a press event at Facebook’s headquarters in the Silicon Valley city of Menlo Park.
Instagram video apps tailored for iPhones and smartphones powered by Google-backed Android software feature 13 filters for special effects and post to people’s Facebook pages the same way pictures do.
Video snippets can be 15 seconds or less, since the team saw that length as a “Goldilocks moment” not too long and not too short, according to the Instagram co-founder.
Systrom said that Instagram has topped 130 million users and all of them have “access to recording the world’s moments in real time” with today’s launch.
Streaming
Instagram engineers worked with leading video scientists to develop a “cinema” feature that stabilizes shaking that is typical in smartphone video.
Within hours of the new feature being added to Instagram, video clips began streaming in from locales around the world including a fish market in Japan, a space memorial in Russia and a surfing haunt on the California coast.
Investors, however, seemed put off by the lack of a plan to make money from Instagram and Facebook shares were down slightly to $23.90 at the end of the official trading day on the Nasdaq.
Facebook acquired Instagram last year. The original price was pegged at $1 billion but the final value was less because of a decline in the social network’s share price.
Twitter earlier this year launched Vine, a service that lets people share video snippets up to six seconds long.
“Given the importance of mobile and video for Facebook, the prospect of video features in Instagram should come as no surprise,” said Ovum analyst Eden Zeller.
Facebook still needs to figure out ways to make money from Instagram, according to analysts.
“We didn’t design it with any advertising in mind,” Systrom said of the video-sharing service. “I think, over time, we will figure out advertising.”
He stressed that Instagram users would own their videos and that Facebook did not intend to use them for marketing or advertising.
(Instagram/Vimeo)
The overall digital video advertising market in the United States is expected to surge more than 40 percent to $4.1 billion this year, according to industry tracker eMarketer.
Video advertising on mobile gadgets is expected to more than double to $518 million this year and account for more than a quarter of all US digital video ad spending by the year 2016, eMarketer said.
Systrom confided that he is eager to tinker with Instagram’s potential on Google Glass Internet-linked eyewear but has not been able to get his hands on a pair, which has been made available to developers at a price of $1,500 each.
Google made billions of dollars last year powering advertising at other websites and Facebook could do likewise, using insights gleaned from users to better target ads at other Internet venues, the analyst reasoned.
“The more social behaviors you get people to engage in, the more you learn about them and eventually Facebook will learn how to use this database of affinity to make money on it,” Elliott said.
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Fantastic work by the guards. Some happy families in Ireland today once they are united with their loved ones.
@James Fox: we need them out of Ashton Pound though – horrific place that it is. I hope the guards are keeping an eye to make sure that all the little mites that went in come back out again. Fair play to them though – they’ve really stepped up over this in recent weeks.
@Norah Deay: Agreed. I brought a stray there a few years ago. He had mange, but was a friendly little fella. I told them that I would pay any and all veterinary bills and would home him if he wasn’t claimed. He was put down the following day. They never even bothered to contact me. Dogs trust should have been asked to take them.
@Al Moore: did u report this, they have no right to do this questions need to be asked who is running this place & why was a dog put down that somebody was prepared to take
@Sheila McNulty: report it to who? Genuine question.
@Norah Deay: I read horrific posts on FB about that hole. Pity the gardai had to leave them there.
@Al Moore: dogs trust send stray dogs to the pound too to do their stray time. They don’t take them all back
@Al Moore: can you please report this to the CEO of DCC Chiefexecutive@dublincity.ie and your local council if not DCC – and also any councillors in your area – this is appalling.
They should be charged with 32 counts of kidnap!! Hats of to the Gardaí outstanding work.
@Davey Dwyer: 0 arrests
@Anne Feerick: ah Anne..you’re a gobsh!te
@Anne Feerick: I take you don’t have a dog, and if you do, Lets hope it doesn’t go missing on you!
@Anne Feerick: I think you need to get a grip yourself Anne….we’re supposed to be a civilised society.
@Anne Feerick: Hope karma visits with what you’re due
@Anne Feerick: Pity your parents weren’t neutered
@Anne Feerick: Well that’s not true Anne.
@Anne Feerick: narcissist thinking there
@Anne Feerick: So Anne, how did that work out for you?
@Anne Feerick: it is possible to care about both. Don’t understand why some people always try to make it a competition
@Anne Feerick: GS
@Anne Feerick: ignorant response
@Logan Shepherd: I’d say she like a dog now after all that dogs abuse…boom boom…;-)))
@James Hayes: Haha .. Yeah James, sometimes it’s better to just think it :-)
@Anne Feerick: at the very least it’s 32 counts of break and entry, unlawful entry of a premises and theft, 96 charges
@Anne Feerick: I stolen dog may not be comparable to a kidnapped child but it is significantly more important then stolen possessions. You can replace a TV like for like but never a pet
@Anne Feerick: You’re an absolute POS
@James Hayes: Only out for Anne is a fulsome and profound apology …
@Logan Shepherd: … or maybe an unreserved one? Wonder if the dognappers will use it too as a defence in court?
@Miss T: Wish the journal could delete them like Anne’s comment :-)
Punishment for this needs to be severe…
Pavee point remains silent
@johnbrady: and will coz there gone to UK to pick up there UK benifits and sell some puppy’s
Taken To ‘Ashtown Pound ‘ or Ashton Pound ‘? From The Frying Pan into the Fire for these poor animals so.
@Mindyourown: ya just read that…whats going on??
@Mindyourown: I have to agree with you on that! Anywhere but there.
@Gina Carroll: Google ‘Ashton Dog Pound ‘. Apparently currently under Garda Investigation for alleged Abuse!.
@Mindyourown: Yeah i was wondering if that was a typo.Seriously…anywhere else.
@Mindyourown: I know :-( I think we all need to keep a close eye on this situation
Ashtown compound!!!!.
This place is never out of the news for cruelty, unnecessary euthanasia of animals, misappropriation of funds.
Those poor dogs would have stood a better chance with new families.
Why would the dogs be handed over to them??.
@Michael Clinton: it’s under investigation by Gardaí! Ironically
I can’t be 100% but I know this area and I can guess who this was.
@Patrick:can’t we all!
@Patrick: I’d say it was probably the nursing home across the road from the traveller camp.
@Longlin: :-)))
@Longlin: lol
Excellent Work
If Fianna Fail could put away the golf clubs & get this law changed asap:
http://chng.it/6z6kpGrmvj
Well done to the Gardaí and other agencies involved. Now the courts need to step up to the mark and lock these low lifes up for a decent stretch as well as seizing any assets they own which may well have come from their previous callous behaviour.
Brought to that skum hole of a pound. Might as well hit them over the head with a hammer now. Also what drugs are they on with their €120k estimate?
Taken to Ashton Pound, poor dogs. I hope they get reunited with their owners soon.
Brilliant news now jail and conficate vehicles
@Gerard Heery: confiscating vehicles would be an attack in their culture
@Felim O’Rourke: and who wants a load of new white ranger overs
Certainly won’t be cared for in that hell hole.
Ashton Pound ffs, talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Outstanding work. Commendations to everyone involved. Disgusting crime.
Estimated value of 120 k I doubt it. its like the price they put on drugs when they cease them. That’s 3000 euro per dog you would get a pedagre bull for that.
@Shamel Jelupi Barron: orice if dogs have soared during the lockdown hence the rise in thefts, even a Jack Russell, which were given away for free in the past are worth €1,000.
@Shamel Jelupi Barron: you’re right. 300 euro per pup would sound more realistic. I’d say it’s a typo and should be €12,000
@Shamel Jelupi Barron: Dashhound pups are making £3,000 in England, which was mostly there destination as generally when dogs get stolen they become to hot to sell in Ireland.
@Mick Murphy: my sister paid 300 for a Cavachon at the beginning of lockdown. A few weeks later they were selling for 1,500! The main reason behind the theft of dogs
@Mick Murphy: Have a look at the prices being paid for dogs in England. That figure may not be far off. Of course it’s potential worth, dependant on getting top price for them.
@Shamel Jelupi Barron: I paid 1800 UK pounds for my little one
@Shamel Jelupi Barron: according to the Garda Facebook page the Dog Wardens valued the dogs not the Gardai.
@BriP75: Why?
@Tony Donoghue: coz she is cute and was not stolen by a man in a caravan
Its a sad world we live in when dogs have a street value
Ashtown pound ???? Out of the frying pan into the fire. Hope they get reunited shortly for the dogs sake.
Great work. I wonder who took these dogs?
@Robbie Farquharson:
You wouldn’t want to be Einstein to figure that out…..
@Joe Toner: We must be thinking the same thing so!
@Joe Toner:
*have
@Joe Toner:
Oh we are Robbie.. We are!
Some positive news and good policing for a change. Hopefully the culprits involved will be brought to justice
Google the address, Street fights, stolen Power tools, stolen dogs
Money money money again boils my blood why dont these crooks get real job stealing dogs wat next like nothing surprises me absolutely nothing anymore cruel world
A film comes to mind
You Like Dags?
Snatch, Yeah…. I Like Dogs
Ashton Pound!! Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire.
@Jason Cody: spot on Jason horrific place.
BRILLIANT NEWS
Please get them out of Ashtown pound today. OMG 24 daschunds!!! The poor pets please god their owners will collect them today.
Brilliant news!! Delighted to hear their owners will be reunited with their babies very soon. The punishment for stealing pets should be no different to kidnapping a child. They are apart of a family, living breathing. Shame on anyone for stealing a family member for money, get a real, respectable job!
I wonder did a traveller tip off the garda, I believe there is a traveller group housing scheme in the area so someone might have spotted some dodgy visitors
@Tony Donoghue: why would they rat on them self’s
Need to be put out of there
Ffs they will be slaughtered in that devils pound.
Owners hurry!
Well done to the Gardai. Now please don’t stop there. Many more stolen dogs out there waiting to be rescued. Just don’t bring them to Ashton Pound, they deserve better than that, after all they have been through. The Law needs to be changed so that the pigs who stole them are locked up and their property confiscated – caravans are fetc a good price at the moment.
out of the frying pan and into the fire comes to mind. keep an eye on them poor little fur babies
Well done. But the sheer irony, that Gardaí have that very dog pound under investigation (as do the Dept of Agriculture) – it is beyond belief that that they are using this place to keep dogs safe, pending the investigation re Dolethal. Wow.
Thanks u hub
Good job Guards, well done to all.
A film comes to mind
You Like Dags?
Snatch, Yeah…. I Like Dogs
@John Keane: I like dags
Ya wana buy a caravan
Thanks u hub you use n
0 arrests?
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