Good news for Android users who love faux-vintage photos: Instagram’s Android app is nearing completion.
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom briefly flashed the app on stage at South by Southwest. The Android app is in private …
Flickr Shifting Towards More Stylish, App-Like Design Next Week
Flickr is getting a much needed makeover. Markus Spiering, the company’s senior product manager, told Betabeat that users should expect the new look by February 28.
In the age of Instagram and Google+, Flickr, which is owned …
Instagram Says It’s Working On Android App
As an Android user, I’m generally pleased with the selection of apps available on Android Market, which just hit its 10 billionth download recently. Yet I can’t help but look on with envy as iPhone users flaunt the one app I …
The Best Gets Better: Instagram 2.0 Adds Live Filters, Higher Resolution Photos
It’s hard to believe that Instagram launched only about a year ago. In a mere three months it accumulated its first million users, and now supports over eight million pocket photographers.
Its success is in no small part due to its easy-to-understand value proposition: instantaneous photo sharing with a creative mix of filters. As …
Instagram CEO: ‘Android Is a Major Priority for Us’
Android owners, strap yourselves in! (Especially if you’re a fan of artificially-applied Lomo filters!)
Instagram, that wildly popular iPhone photosharing app that’s now been downloaded over eight million times, will in fact be coming to Android-powered devices, as confirmed by the company’s CEO in an interview with The …
Facebook Adding Vintage Photo Filters Similar to Instagram’s
When Google Plus was first unveiled, lots of photo geeks applauded the social network for its big 2,048 pixel resolution and ease of use. One of the more damning complaints leveled at Facebook was the way it compressed photos, at least until late last year. It was a long overdue upgrade, but along the way, Facebook earned a poor …
Party Hats, Everyone! Instagram Hits 150 Million Photo Uploads
Instagram, the popular photo sharing service for the iPhone, just announced that it’s hit 150 million photo uploads thanks in no small part to its user base of 7 million picture snappers. For perspective, that’s about 15 photos being uploaded every single second.
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Justin Bieber Joins Instagram, World Explodes
With an unfathomable 11 million+ followers on Twitter, it’s no secret that Justin Bieber is already the Pied Piper for tweenish girls across the world. For perspective, that’s about as many followers as the entire population of Cuba. Suffice it to say: Wherever he goes, they follow in droves.
So it’s completely understandable that …
Google Strangely Releases ‘Photovine’ App for iPhone, Not Android
If I had a nickel for every time I got pitched an “exciting new photo sharing app!” I’d have something like 40 cents. Maybe 35. Still, photo sharing is a really crowded space, one that’s currently being dominated by the likes of Instagram, which recently charted just over 5 million users accounting for over 95 million pictures …
Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Announce ‘Something Awesome’ Next Week
Facebook’s been mum in light of Google+ grabbing all the headlines this week. Apparently, it’s just biding its time.
On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a group of reporters visiting his company’s Seattle office that the social network will “launch something awesome” at some point next week.
The 27-year old billionaire …
Facebook to Take On Instagram with New Photo Sharing App?
Here’s some news: TechCrunch has apparently gotten their hands on Facebook’s next big project, which takes aim at iPhone photosharing apps like Instagram, Color, Path and more. From what’s being reported, the unannounced app – said to be called “Hovertown” or “WithPeople” internally – would function kind of like a …
Study Reveals Most Mobile Users Aren’t ‘Checking In’
While we all know someone who inundates our social feeds with all of their “check ins,” it turns out that the idea of alerting the cyberspace world to our whereabouts is not too popular among most people.
A survey of more than 1,000 consumers conducted by digital agency Beyond shows that only 17% of the mobile users are taken with …