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Has Facebook Got an Instagram For Video Up Its Sleeve?

Facebook's got a mysterious event this week, and rumour has it that we'll see an Instagram for video. Apparently Zuckerberg and co fancy a stab at Vine or something, at least, that's what an unnamed source seems to think. If true, looks like Twitter and Facebook have yet another thing to fight over. What will it be called? Instavid? FaceTime? Oh, wait. [TechCrunch] Read More >>

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Is This Miniature Instagram Projector Adorable Or Completely Stupid?

I hate everything but for some reason find this little projector to be the cutest and most adorable thing in the world. Projecteo is a miniature projector—about the size of a jar of Carmex—that transfers nine of your Instagram photos onto a single frame of 35mm Kodak film for you to then show your friends or whatever. Read More >>

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Legendary Guy Photoshops Celebrities into His Instagram Pictures

What do you Instagram? Food. Cupcakes. The beach. The beach with your sandy feet. Clouds. Rain. Dogs. Beer. Selfies. High heels. Forgotten Nights. And maybe on an off chance, a blurry photo of a celebrity you saw on the street. Or in a magazine. Or in a movie. You're certainly not as hilarious as Peeje T. He perfectly photoshops celebrities into his Instagrams. It's simply outstanding. Read More >>

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Flashback: How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

In the wake of Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of beloved social platform Tumblr, it's perhaps worth looking back what the company did after it caught—and gutted—another big fish. Read More >>

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Identity Thieves Caught By Instagramming Dinner

You might think it's all fun and games when you're Instagramming your dinner before you dig in, but former identity thief Nathaniel Troy Maye will tell you otherwise; doing just that got him arrested. Read More >>

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Inspired By Coca-Cola, Instagram Reveals a Subtle Logotype Revamp

Today, when Instagram announced its new people-tagging feature, it focused on the new UI changes within the app. But if you look closely, you'll also see another change: a new script, designed by Denver typographer Mackey Saturday. Read More >>

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Instagram Finally Adds a Real People-Tagging Feature

The Facebookification of Instagram continues today as the photo sharing service just added an official feature for tagging people photos. And of course, these photos will all be grouped together on your profile page in a "Photos of You" section. Read More >>

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Instagraph: Your Instagram Workaround for WP8

Instagraph is an app that posts your photos to Instagram from Windows Phone. Sure, it's not the official app. But it's about as close as you're going to get for the foreseeable future. Read More >>

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Yep Android Users Love Snapping Pictures of Their Damn Food Too

Looks like it's not just iPhone users who love forcing everyone to stare at pictures of their bloody food, or ruining improving overwise-decent photos with wonderful lo-fi filters. After a year of hipstering-it-up on Android, almost half of Instagram's users are Google-powered. Read More >>

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What Your Instagram Filter Says About You

What do you think the most popular filter on Instagram is? Valencia for a little fade? Kelvin for photographical equivalent of spray on tans? Maybe Earlybird? Can #NoFilter be considered a filter? But even more than filter popularity, what do using specific filters say about you? This infographic explains. Read More >>

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An Instagram Foot Shot From the Tallest Building in the World Is the Best Instagram Foot Shot

Your feet in a front of a sunset. Your feet sprawled on a grassy knoll. Your feet surrounded by cats. Whatever the situation, Instagram's about giving your friends and admirers a chance to peer through sepia-coloured glasses at the fun and exciting life of your feet. But photographer Joe McNally may have just taken the Instagram-foot-shot to end all foot shots. Read More >>

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Rethinking Instagram (On the Web)

Surely by now we've all seen the latest addition to Instagram, the long awaited website. What did you think of the turn out? Was it what you expected? To be perfectly honest, I had no idea what to expect. My hope was that they would create some sort of a nice grid layout. To my surprise, they did not. As a long time interface designer, I wanted to test my skills and design the Instagram I wanted for myself. Read More >>

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Nokia Begs Instagram For a Windows Phone App With Its Own Instagram Love-Letter App

Windows Phone is struggling to get the big markee apps on-board, and Nokia's painfully aware of the fact that apps make a platform. So, what does it do to try and convince Instagram to get its arse in gear and make a WP8 app? It releases a cheeky little app that essentially lets Windows Phone users send Instagram love letters through the medium of artsy photography. Read More >>

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Here’s the First Instagram of North Korea (Probably)

Kim Jong Un's hip, young reign over North Korea continues today as the mobile operator Koryolink officially turns on its data services, opening the gate to Instagram, Foursquare, and Twitter, among other social apps. Read More >>

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Native Instagram App for BB10 Not on the Horizon, Says Source

Owners of the new BB10 phones are going to have to look elsewhere for a means of capturing, editing and distributing photographs of their duck wraps and Thai chilli fish cakes, as sources claim Instagram is currently steering clear of the new OS and not working on a custom native app. Read More >>