See the Instagram photos you’re tagged in with new “Photos of You” feature
Want to see the photos you’ve been tagged in on Instagram? The company plans to announce a “Photos of You” feature on Thursday that will let you do just that. Read more »
Albumatic and Cluster try a fresh take on an old problem: group photo-sharing
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Group photo-sharing is a problem that people have been trying to solve for a while now. But two fresh new apps that are launching before SXSW look to re-invent the concept and make it easier than ever to share. Read more »
Betaworks’ Swirl app builds shared photo albums using hashtags
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Betaworks’ new Swirl iPhone app gathers hashtagged photos from on Instagram and Twitter to create photo albums. Users can see photos from the same event from their friends. Read more »
EyeEm revamp heralds semantic phase in photo-sharing wars
With the photo app’s new ‘Discover’ feed pulling context from an impressive variety of sources, and with monetization plans including an entry into the stock photo business, we may be seeing evolution past the focus on art filters. Read more »
Instagram adds minor web functionality, ability to like and comment
Minor updates to Instagram’s website today come as the originally mobile-centric site begins to move further toward desktop interactivity. Users will now be able to like and comment on Instagram photos through the Instagram website, and they’ll be able to follow new users as well. Instagram […] Read more »
Another Color co-founder exits – this time for CakeHealth
Another Color co-founder has split from the company. Alyssa Solomon, Color’s former CFO and co-founder, has accepted a new gig leading business development at consumer health tech startup CakeHealth. Read more »
Instagram rival EyeEm expands to WinPhone and web
It may be smaller than its Facebook-owned rival, but EyeEm is rapidly building up support for its discovery-focused photo-sharing service — and hopes to continue with a newly released Windows Phone app and a heavily revamped web service. Read more »
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Potential Facebook-Instagram impact
Don’t be too quick to think that Facebook is abandoning its HTML5 mobile strategy in favor of apps. As a defensive movie, acquiring Instagram would lock down Facebook’s strong position in photo-sharing, leaving little room for would-be competitors, but it gives Facebook few new weapons and ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Did Facebook just throw Instagram’s rivals a lifeline?
It’s hard to imagine Instagram’s rivals feeling good about the company’s $1 billion sale to Facebook. But at least one competitor suggests that users fleeing from the photo app could actually boost other services. Read more »
Note to startups: The network is all that really matters
Everyone may be wondering why Facebook paid $1 billion for what appears to be just a simple photo-sharing app, but the biggest lesson to learn from Instagram’s success is just how important it is to build network effects into the core of your service. Read more »
Facebook and Instagram: Largest mobile-app deal ever?
Facebook’s stunning $1 billion acquisition of Instagram appears to be the largest deal ever for a company built entirely around a single mobile app experience, either proving that the mobile app business has truly arrived or that there’s a new bubble in town. Read more »
How The Media Can Use Pinterest To Drive Traffic And Revenue
Media owners may be spooked by Pinterest’s controversial re-use of copyrighted content – but they could have plenty to gain from embracing,… Read more at paidContent »
Here come Samsung’s Smart Cameras with Wi-Fi
Thanks to better sensors and integrated connectivity, the iPhone 4S has become the top camera on the Flickr photography site, beating out more expensive DSLRs. With its new Smart Cameras, Samsung is offering to solid shooters the ability to share pictures and videos over Wi-Fi. Read more »
With new app, Sharypic aims to be Instagram for events
Location-based photo sharing app Color famously flamed out after raising millions of dollars in funding. Now, with them out of the picture, French service Sharypic wants to step into the gap and provide photo sharing for events. Can it compete in a crowded market? Read more »
Pixable turns photo viewing into a daily addiction
Pixable, a photo viewing aggregation service, said its mobile iOS app recently eclipsed the 1 million download mark on iOS. But more importantly, it’s doing 100 million photo views a month and 60 percent of users are still active, most of them on a daily basis. Read more »
Facebook’s Latest Scoop: Thousands Of Journalists Use Subscribe Feature
For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network reveale… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: Rutberg: Mobile Accounted For Over 40% Of All Tech VC In 2011
Some revealing numbers out from the analysts at Rutberg & Co. that point to how big mobile is in terms of tech investments today, and how co… Read more at paidContent »
Microsoft SkyDrive 'Confuses Naked With Nude', Art Account Frozen
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has an image police – but an arrest they have made may be mistaken. A blogger using its SkyDrive cloud storage servic… Read more at paidContent »
Wow: Instagram’s website gets 300M page views per month
Instagram’s website is currently receiving 10 million page views each day, adding up to some 300 million page views per month, GigaOM has learned. This is especially interesting given that the Instagram experience is tailored to users of the app, not viewers on the web. Read more »
Who’s winning in Twitter photos? Hint: Not Yfrog or Lockerz
When Twitter debuted its native photo-sharing feature earlier this year, some people worried that it would harm the existing ecosystem of third-party photo sharing apps. New data indicates that those concerns were well justified: Twitter now powers 45 percent of the photos shared on its site. Read more »
Crafty Southern Ladies Make Pinterest A Unique Social Networking Site
I’ve been sucked into image collecting and sharing site Pinterest for hours on end, but my NYC location makes me a less than typical user: N… Read more at paidContent »
BuzzFeed Releases Kindle Fire-Optimized App
Social content site BuzzFeed is the latest company to release a version of its app especially for the Kindle Fire. Read more at paidContent »
Evernote's New Hello And Food Apps Take Organizer To New Competitive Ground
Evernote has been one of the darlings of the app revolution, with a popular free service across multiple plaforms and used for all manner of… Read more at paidContent »
Hands on with Touch: Is a solid product enough at this stage?
Messaging apps. The words could just make you sigh at this point. From Facebook to WhatsApp to Apple, everyone has something to offer in this space. So can a new entry at this point possibly stand a chance? Touch, a new app, hopes so. Read more »
Hands on with Path 2.0: What Facebook should be
The original Path, a social network designed around exclusive, photo-centric sharing, proved a tad underwhelming in my opinion. But version 2.0, available Wednesday, is more than just lipstick on a pig. It’s an entirely new course for Path, and a very promising one. Read more »
Hands on with Adobe Carousel for iOS and Mac
Adobe’s cross-platform photo management service, Carousel, is now available on iOS devices and the Mac. New apps for both platforms, released on Thursday, let you manage, sync, share and even edit your photo collection on all of your Apple devices. Read more »
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Strength in numbers: Sincerely launches iPhone API with 12 partners
Sincerely, the startup best known for the Postagram app, has launched a software platform to let iPhone developers add the company’s “print and ship” functionality into any app. Sincerely took a hit earlier this week when consumer electronics giant Apple announced its own Postagram-like app. Read more »
Instagram signs up a new user every second
Less than a year after it launched its photo-sharing app, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom told attendees at GigaOM’s Mobilize conference that new users are signing up at a rate of 78 per minute, and 26 photos are being uploaded to the service every second. Read more »
@ F8: Facebook Unveils New Class Of Social Apps And Redesigned ‘Timeline’
Facebook unveiled a new version of its social-media platform Thursday designed to help media companies and social-application developers enc… Read more at paidContent »
Color changes gears, becomes Facebook photo/video app
Some might call it a pivot, but the decision to change Color from its own contained social network into a photo/video extension of Facebook is more like a last-chance effort at achieving relevance. Can Color succeed as a feature where it failed as an app? Read more »
Invite No Longer Required For Google+ Alongside Tweaks To Mobile Experience
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) decided its Google+ social network was ready to take a big step on Tuesday: it’s now open to the public and no invitatio… Read more at paidContent »
Hands on with Instagram 2.0′s new filters and features
Instagram got a pretty major update Tuesday with version 2.0. Aside from a slightly modified, prettier icon, the update also adds new features, filters and general speed improvements that make the whole experience better. With so many apps chasing Instagram’s coattails, it’s a timely update. Read more »
Piictu app invites users to communicate through photos
Piictu, a New York start-up that is part of TechStars’ New York class, is launching its iPhone app out of beta. The app invites people to interact and converse completely through photos. It has less competition now that Google’s Photovine is now retiring. Read more »
Summer 2011 in photos: Cellphone cameras boom, digital cameras wane
Summer is certainly the high season for vacations, and that also means it’s high season for taking lots of photographs. New research shows that during the summer of 2011, digital camera use waned as more people used their mobile phones to take photos than ever before. Read more »
The pursuit of stickiness: Twitter debuts in-app image galleries
Twitter has launched its own “user galleries” to aggregate all the images users have uploaded into their Tweets in one place. It’s Twitter’s latest effort to up its “stickiness” factor, the quality that keeps users clicking around an app and makes them visit it more often. Read more »
Badger makes iPhone photo sharing more relevant
There’s no shortage of photo-sharing apps on the iPhone, thanks to Instagram’s instant success. But Badger, a new app that hit the iOS App Store Friday, has a genuinely fresh approach that just might succeed in turning heads. Read more »
iOS 101: Importing photos from your iPhone
If you’re like me, you take a lot of photos with your iPhone. You might want to keep some of them, but most ikely lose their novelty on a second viewing. Deciding which to keep is easier after you import the photos to your Mac. Read more »
iPhone SLR mount is kind of expensive, kind of awesome
Is it wrong that I want this new iPhone 4 SLR mount from Photojojo so badly? The new case/adapter combo that allows you to use either Canon or Nikon SLR lenses with your iPhone 4 to add some professional veneer to your mobile photos. Read more »
Infographic: A look at picture-perfect App Store success
The folks at tap tap tap have just crossed the 3 million download milestone with their popular Camera+ app, which has also brought in $2.7 million in revenue. Here’s a graphic look at what went into that success, and how people are using the app. Read more »
