With the camera being the core of the experience, Instagram announced today its biggest upgrade to the Instagram iOS camera since last year improving its function and speed. (more…)
AllThingsD is reporting Instagram has officially ceased support for Twitter cards technology today, as confirmed to the publication via a Facebook spokesperson (the latter acquired Instagram for $1 billion back in September): Instagram has completely turned off support for Twitter cards technology on Sunday, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to AllThingsD. Users will still be able...
Twitter wants to have its share of its users’ smiles, so it is planning to release a series of photo filters, which are aimed at being used within the official Twitter app, AllThingsD reports. (more…)
Instagram has today disabled a feature that allows photos to be properly displayed on Twitter's website and applications, reports the New York Times. The move will further escalate tensions between the two companies, which were once friends in the battle against Facebook. A status update on Twitter's website says Instagram has disabled its integration with Twitter cards,...
We've seen various concept designs for the rumoured Apple television and also iOS user interface updates for notifications. But what about a concept design for the popular photosharing network, Instagram? TechCrunch shares a video created by designer Stephen Levinson, who redesigned a concept version of Instagram to be more intuitive and take advantage of gestures....
Time magazine used Instagram to cover the effects of Hurricane Sandy and found out that the results were pretty impressive. An article by Forbes details why one of the world's leading news magazine turned to an iPhone app to cover this historic natural disaster. The report details how Kira Pollack, Time’s director of photography, rounded up five photographers from the region...
According to a report from the New York Times, Twitter is going to add filters to pictures to compete with Instagram: In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce filters for photos that will allow people to share altered images on Twitter and bypass Instagram, the popular mobilecentric photo-sharing network,...
It seems that Instagram is taking a break from being the primary source of photographs showing off our children or whatever masterpiece we've assembled for lunch today. Instead, the famous image manipulation and sharing app is busy acting as a front-line news reporter for Hurricane Sandy by way of over 10 new images posted every...
Instagram has announced on its blog today it has now made sharing photos with people easier especially when people you know are mentioned on Instagram but their usernames are different from their Twitter usernames. Today's change improves that as @mentions will now be translated via the following scenarios: If the @mentioned user has connected Instagram to Twitter:...
A couple updates have been pushed out to two popular apps, Instagram and UrbanSpoon. The updates bring support for iOS 6 and the larger 4-inch screen of the iPhone 5. Urbanspoon brings some usability enhancements to the new restaurant map along with some bug fixes. The app looks great on the larger iPhone 5 display....
Facebook has announced today that they've finally completed the acquisition of the photo-sharing network Instagram. The deal was formed on April 12th, 2012 for $300 million cash and 23 million shares of stock. Facebook is committed in supporting the network's growth and notes "Instagram isn't going anywhere." Here is more from the Facebook Newsroom: As we said...
