GigaomInstagram and Me: 3 years later, a love affair continues
Three years and 150 million users later, Instagram, the photo sharing service that launched on October 6, 2010 is growing up — it needs to sell ads and make money. And… Read more »
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Three years and 150 million users later, Instagram, the photo sharing service that launched on October 6, 2010 is growing up — it needs to sell ads and make money. And… Read more »
Instagram says it has 150 million users and it signed up about 50 million users in past six months. The company is benefitting from the sharp increase in smartphone penetration, especially… Read more »
Instagram has come up with a nifty hack that uses data from phones sensors to automagically straighten photos — which in turn means, you will get more likes and your followers… Read more »
Lumi is a new app that turns your internet browsing history into relevant suggestions for what to read next. It comes from the Last.fm founders, who are now tackling smart suggestions… Read more »
Instagram has launched a new feature that allows users to share short video clips — but photos and video are very different animals, and the audience for the latter may not… Read more »
We’ve been waiting for someone to transform social video for a while now — someone to create the “Instagram for video.” Well, Instagram itself may just have done that. Read more »
Vine is probably the best we’ve seen in mobile video-sharing so far. But as good as Vine is, the technological limits of mobile networking still haven’t quite caught up yet, and… Read more »
Just as the Mad Men of the 50’s and 60’s tapped into consumer desires and emotions for a new school of advertising, modern companies like Instagram and Pinterest will need a… Read more »
The New York startup ecosystem will get a big boost from the $1.1 billion sale of Tumblr to Yahoo. The exit, one of the biggest New York has seen, shows that… Read more »
What does the future look like for Hipstamatic, the original darling of mobile photo shutterbugs eclipsed by Instagram? It’s embracing the social nature of the photo wars with Oggl, a new… Read more »