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…

Redfin unveils Collections, a new photo-sharing service for real estate nerds

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Sometimes, working in real estate can be all about crunching numbers and analyzing data. But there’s an emotional and creative side, too, and Redfin’s new photo-sharing service hopes to tap into that. It’s called Collections, a new social feature that allows users to create and share sets of listing photos. People can create Collections on… 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…