The great part about Instagram is that you can pick up your iPhone at any time and see an awesome stream of photos, carefully filtered by one of your friends...

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Until Instagram, (everyone's favorite filter-fun, photo sharing iPhone app) gets a move on and delivers a much desired web-based interface, we have to rely on various 3rd party apps that tap...

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There are a lot of applications taking advantage of Instagram's API right now, and the best part about having a publicly available stream of photos for developers to use, is...

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What if you could teleport to anywhere in the world, right now, to see what was going on there? That's the idea behind a new photo search app for iOS called Teleportd. While it obviously won't actually teleport you, it allows you explore photos being shared around the world on Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and PicPlz [...]

Read More: Teleportd lets you search photos shared on Twitter, Instagram and more in real time

What if you could teleport to anywhere in the world, right now, to see what was going on there? That's the idea behind a new photo search app for iOS...

Read More: Teleportd lets you search photos shared on Twitter, Instagram and more in real time

When I ask people why they love Foursquare so much, they increasingly point to the service 4squareand7yearsago, which sends a daily email with the subject line: "Where you were a year ago on October 07, 2010. " The email tells you what day it was, where you went and even what the weather was like: October 07, [...]

Read More: What Instagram photos did you take a year ago today? And7YearsAgram lets you know.

When I ask people why they love Foursquare so much, they increasingly point to the service 4squareand7yearsago, which sends a daily email with the subject line: "Where you were a year ago...

Read More: What Instagram photos did you take a year ago today? And7YearsAgram lets you know.

The brilliance behind the Polaroid camera was instant gratification. No wonder Instagram has adopted the nostalgic camera tech as it's logo. Instagram has indeed captured the childlike wonder of many iPhone users (yes we know, they NEED an adroid app). How many? Well, even though the 6 person company is less than a year old [...]

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Photo sharing app Instagram is one of the major success stories from the app world, notching up a cool million downloads within three months of launch in October 2010. Today it has over 9m registered users and well over 10m downloads under its belt, despite only being available on the Apple App Store.Sometimes an app is just so sweet, you can't help but keep talking about it, even indirectly. For example, we've covered Web-based alternatives to Instagram, put Instagram up against PicPlz, looked [...]

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Turn on a New York based filter when you use Mobli. We started working with Mobli about a month ago. When I met CEO Moshiko Hogeg for the first time, I was captivated by his passion and vision for Mobli and the concept behind this company, which is not just a mobile application but a [...]

Read More: Mobli goes beyond Instagram as a visual social media platform

Instagram, a photo-sharing app for iPhone users, has become a widespread sensation among individual users, and now big brands are following their lead. I love using the app. It can be addictive and give you added inspiration for taking more interesting photos with your phone. Instagram allows the photo taker to have a little fun [...]

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Mastergram is a new Tumblr blog that looks at how much emotion can be squeezed out of classic photos when they're rendered with Instagram filters. Already some of the most recognizable photos of the 20th century, such as Loyalist Militia Man at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano by Robert Capa, Mastergram is arguably modifying photos that don't need any help. Creator Andrew Emond admits, as much, saying that some photos may get better, and some worse as a result. You can judge for yourself, tho [...]

Read More: Mastergram uses Instagram filters on classic photos for even more iconic effect

This past June, Earth Hour Global organized an "Instagram photo walk" around the Sydney Eveleigh Organic Markets to encourage local iPhone photographers "to re-imagine the modern sustainable city and share these visualisations with the global community".After promoting the walk through Facebook and Twitter (and with the help of an established and popular Instagramer), participants knew to tag their photos #sydearthhourpw and to upload them on Instagram. The walk was scheduled to coincide with th [...]

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Facebook is dumping Facebook Places and conceding defeat to Foursquare, Gowalls and other check-in services. With Places demoted to tagging locations, what is Facebook setting its sights on now? Messaging, as evidenced by the release of Facebook Messenger for iPhone, is one. Another target appears to be Instagram and other photo filter apps and services. The New York Times reports that:Facebook Targets Instagram With Photo FiltersFacebook wants to own your photos instead of merely being the reci [...]

Read More: Can Just Adding Photo Filters to the Facebook App Get Instagram’s Action?

According to Nick Bilton of The New York Times, Facebook plans to add a series of photo filters to the next version of its mobile app, going head to head with Instagram, the darling of iPhone filter-photo-sharing applications.Bilton states that "Facebook will introduce almost a dozen photo filters, including some that are similar to Instagram like old-style camera lenses and grainy film. Facebook will also try to introduce new styles of filters with the hopes of drawing users away from other pho [...]

Read More: Facebook couldn't acquire Instagram, so it's making its own filters

Hot on the heels of Klout‘s recent integration of Foursquare and Instagram, another social influence measurement service, Empire Avenue has announced that it is adding support for both those services.Empire Avenue is similar to Klout and PeerIndex, in that it measures influence of its users on social services like Twitter and Facebook, but throws in the twist of letting others buy and sell stock in users, speculating on their future value. It uses virtual currency, but brands are getting i [...]

Read More: Social stockmarket Empire Avenue follows Klout, tracks Foursquare and Instagram influence

Social network influence-measurement service Klout doubled its pleasure by doubling the total number of networks it factors into its ratings system, announcing the addition of Blogger, Tumblr, Flickr, Instagram, and Last.fm.

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The official Instagram blog posted some amazing numbers yesterday.150,000,000 PhotosHere are their numbers (-) and a few I calculated (*) to add to the list:- 150 million photos shared
* 301 days between Instagram's launch on October 6, 2010 and August 3, 2011 when the 150th million photo was shared
- 7 million people shared photos
* 21 photos, on average, shared by each person
- 15 photos shared every second
* 1,296,000 photos shared in a dayTechCrunch's MG Siegler note [...]

Read More: Instagram by the Numbers: 150 Million Photos Shared in 301 Days Since It Started