Extragram, a shiny new third-party web app, brings Systrom's vision to fruition.
Developed by a five-man team, Extragram is a slick web client that lets Instagram users log in to access photos on the web, instead of just via the iPhone app.
"We just loved how beautiful Instragram made the images look," says co-creator Karthikeyan Mani. "We wanted to come up with a really good user interface that would complement the beautiful photos Instagram churns out and we wanted to make it easy for our users to discover more of these lovely images and users through our web interface."
Extragram gives Instagram members three different views for feed and popular photos: Grid, Filmstrip or Map. Each view offers an artistic or place-based interpretation of the original feed format in the Instagram app. In any of the views, users can interact with photos. By rolling the mouse curser over a photo, users can see heart and comments icons they can click on to view and add "likes" or comments.
The web app also allows users to search for photos, places, people and hashtags.
Extragram is not the first Instagram web client; Gramfeed was released a few weeks ago with similar features including photo feeds, comments and "likes."