A billion dollars. I’d like to point out here that Instagram has nine employees, plus its investors, who today are probably very happy people.

I have a bunch to say about this, which really does portend the future of amateur photography, and I’ll post links as the stories appear.

[Update, 4/15/12: Story in […]

Just ran across this tour, on the Atlantic’s tech blog, of Instagram’s small office in San Francisco. (Instagram, for the holdouts among you, is a smartphone app that lets you share photos, and also treat them with digital filters so they look somewhat like analog snapshots.) This company’s sharing-and-socializing approach to photography is often […]