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Could this be a sign that we are nearing the end of our beloved Instagram? Today Facebook launched their own Instagram-esque mobile photo sharing app, with photo filters and social tied directly into Facebook. The conundrum is that Facebook just acquired Instagram last month for $1 billion. What gives?
Instagram is so popular these days; so why not have an actual camera in real life, that can take the Intstagram photos, which you can immediately print out? Polaroid did it, why not Instagram. Unfortunately, this amazing and beautiful looking camera is just a concept design.
Talk about a Cinderella story. In just under two years, the mobile photo sharing service Instagram went from nothing to a billion dollar acquisition with the social networking giant Facebook. Recently, Instagram created an Android app, which has helped fuel the explosion in growth.
If you ever do an image search on the web, chances are great that whatever you are looking for, there is a Stock Photo available for it, and just the one you want is that Stock Photo too. Stock Photo is a company that sells photo/videos for use on the web, which can be a lot cheaper than getting your own photographer to do a photo shoot with a model. Suffice it to say, Stock Photos are popular.
After the news broke yesterday about Facebook acquiring Instagram for a billion dollars, users took to their favorite social photo sharing app to express themselves. Here are the 15 best Instagrams where users were clearly emotional about the news.
In a huge announcement today from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, he said that Facebook has acquired social image sharing site Instagram. This is tremendous news believe it or not for Facebook. Of course it’s big for Instagram, but for a while now Facebook has been trying to acquire Instagram but has failed to do so.
This time lapse video is taken from the NASA Space Station using imagery compiled by NASA’s Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. It’s an amazing video, and well worth the watch for a view that is so rarely seen.
If you can’t see an object around a corner with your own eyes, how do you expect a camera to be able to see and photograph an image of a hidden object? Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have figured out just how to do this.
Long before companies like Google, Apple and Twitter, there was one company that started a technology revolution in Silicon Valley, California. The company created by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, which you might know as Hewlett-Packard (HP) started in a place that you may never have thought of.
One of the most popular photo sharing apps out there broke a major milestone recently, according to one blogger with a keen eyesight for numbers. According to Dirk Singer, using Statigram and Ink361 as two separate data references, which both use Instagram API to populate their sites, Singer was able to identify through user account numbers that Instagram has reached well over 25 million users.
Taking a queue from the shit people say trend, for example, Shit Silicon Valley says, comes yet another comedic video that is well done and really captures the genre. Modeled after the popular photo sharing app Instagram, comes Stuff Instagramers Say. The video was created by Ryan Carl and Jody Johnston.
The latest update of Google Plus brings a new feature for iOS users that has been around for a bit already for Android users. Coming to iPhone and iPad when using Google Plus is Instant Upload.
Cinemagraphs are a hybrid of a photo and video combined into one animated image, with the animations typically being a very subtle animation in only one part of the image. For example, you might have wind blowing a flag around in an otherwise completely still photo or someone’s hair moving around.
Facebook is pushing out a new photo viewer that many may have seen recently, maybe not, as it’s still pretty new. If you use Google Plus, the wider view photo viewer may look familiar to you.
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