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 >>
Featured comment by Silverbull999:
"Yeah great piece... Enjoyed reading very much.
Imo facehook can do one... Getting a dslr recently made me get Flickr and 500px accounts.... Nothin..." More »
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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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"I understand your point but...
It's not a single phone. Currently Apple sells the 4,4S & 5 and there are lots of people out there using hand me..." More »
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 >>
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 >>
Featured comment by Prozac:
"Maybe he was in a safety harness wearing a parachute and an oxygen tank, accompanied by trained personnel and was hugging a pillar while his wife and ..." More »
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 >>
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 >>
Featured comment by scaramoosh:
"Why do people use this shit like it's something amazing and innovative? Filters over photos have existed for years to the end user." More »
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 >>
Featured comment by otaviokz:
"I'm not taking sides. I just won't be fulled by the "war propaganda machine" and act as someone else's war horse. People keep talking all imaginable s..." More »
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 >>
The Israeli Defense Forces has a history of overzealous campaigns on its official social media accounts. So maybe we shouldn't be surprised that an IDF sniper doesn't take his job very seriously. Or that's the impression we get, since he Instagrammed a photo of what appears to be a Palestinian child in the crosshairs of his rifle scope. Real, real messed up. Read More >>
Everybody has an Instagram addict in their life. Hey, maybe you even are one! This humorous video, by photographer Grant McGuire, explores the rise of, and drama surrounding, Instagram through the eyes of an addict. Read More >>
Yum, that food you ordered is so beautifully-presented that you're going to take a lovely photo of it, aren't you? I bet you're going to use the flash because it's dark in this fancy restaurant, too, huh? Read More >>
Featured comment by eadingas:
"I admit to always doing that whenever I'm in Japan - but that's because watching (and then eating) food in Japan is as much part of the holidays as vi..." More »
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