An app for your apps: WideAngle puts your photos in one place

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Say you’ve just returned from a weekend trip in Vegas. You and all your raging friends took many, many pictures — some of them are already Facebook, others on Instagram and the rest that no one else should see are saved in separate phone galleries. Seattle startup WideAngle is bringing all those images in one… Read More…

Nokia begs Instagram for a Windows Phone app, creates #2InstaWithLove

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Nokia is getting creative to show how badly it wants an Instagram app for Windows Phones. “We’ve been listening, and we know you all love Instagram,” writes Nokia’s Paul Coombes. ”The only way for us to show how much the Nokia community really care about bringing this world class app to Windows Phone, is by having a little… Read More…

Instagram hits 100M user mark 28 months after launch

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Instagram, welcome to the 100 million club. The Facebook-owned photo sharing social network announced today that two-and-a-half years after launch, Instagram has surpassed the 100 million user mark. Co-founder Kevin Systrom penned a blog post on the milestone, thanking users and writing about Instagram’s early days inside a frigid San Francisco office when he and… Read More…

POLL: Should employers have access to your social media passwords?

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Imagine this for a second: You walk into your next job interview, sit down and the employer asks you for all your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and Tumblr passwords. This is a requirement for the job, the interviewer says. What would you do? The Seattle Times today wrote about Washington Senate Bill 5211 that would prohibit employers… Read More…

The 10 social media tools that every startup must have

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Social media has revolutionized the way we communicate. With the revolution has come insane amounts of data, analytics and information about customers, followers and users. How can companies leverage this social media data in ways to help analyze parts of their business? That’s part of what Andy Boyer included in his talk about social media… Read More…

Calm down, people: Instagram isn’t selling your souls

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One of the bigger tech stories going on right now is the whirlwind Instagram created with its new polices that claim the right to sell your photos without payment or notification. Or at least that’s what thousands of angry people thought. However, it looks like there was a little misinterpretation. The Verge pointed this out… Read More…

Clipsy hopes to break into video-sharing scene

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As Brad Brewer pulled out his iPhone and showed me Clipsy at last week’s GeekWire Gala, the amount of moving videos all in one place startled me. Then I took a closer look. Each of the 20-or-so tiles on the screen were individual videos playing all at once — essentially a thumbnail gallery, with the… Read More…

Social media feast: Instagram, Allrecipes break records on Thanksgiving

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If you enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner yesterday, own a smartphone and are active on social media, chances are you snapped a few photos and shared them across your networks. That happened in record-breaking fashion on Instagram yesterday, as the growing photo-sharing community saw over 10 million photos with Thanksgiving-related words in their captions. From about 10… Read More…

Study: 54 percent of top brands active on Instagram

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A study from Seattle-based social media analytics startup Simply Measured makes it clear that if your company isn’t on Instagram, you’re certainly late to the party. Of the Interband top 100 brands, 54 percent are now using the Facebook-owned photo sharing app, which is a relative increase of 35 percent from last quarter. The study notes that… Read More…

Social commerce platform Chirpify expands to Instagram

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When it started, the name “Chirpify” suited the Twitter world perfectly. But things are going well for the Portland-based startup, and Chirpify announced today that it is expanding to Facebook’s extremely popular photo sharing-app, Instagram. Chirpify, the only platform for in-stream commerce that was previously only on Twitter, is now available for Instagram users who wish… Read More…