People must love the Mouse. Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., is officially the most popular geo-tagged location on Instagram. The Magical Kingdom unseats the Siam Paragon mall in Bangkok (seriously, a… Read More
Update (2:21 p.m.): Instagram is back online after a brief outage that lasted about a half hour this afternoon. The company still has not disclosed the cause of the problems, though… Read More
Time lapse photography has created some truly iconic videos, but making them on a phone is quite the challenge. They require stability in order to look good, which means that… Read More
A few weeks ago, Microsoft researchers unveiled Hyperlapse — an impressive project that turns first-person videos into smooth, stable time-lapse scenes using some advanced computer science. They released a research paper at the respected SIGGRAPH computer graphics… Read More
As a retail brand, Nordstrom holds a coveted position on Instagram. It has more than 530,000 followers who scan new items that they can purchase from the company, alongside their… Read More
Social media tools are changing the movie theater experience before, during and after seeing a flick on the big screen. Nielsen’s annual American Moviegoing report shows specifically how moviegoers are interacting… Read More
Facebook announced today that it will take steps to prevent illegal gun sales on its site and Instagram, following intense pressure from groups in favor of gun control. The company… Read More
Kids may be leaving Facebook, but that isn’t enough to take the network down from atop the social media pedestal. A new Pew Research Center Internet Project study shows 73 percent… Read More
If Instagram users had a photo they only wanted to share with a select few, the Facebook-owned photo sharing service wasn’t the place to do it. But now, the company… Read More
Instagram announced today that its app for Windows Phone will be launching today in the Windows Phone Store, as teased last month. However, the app doesn’t currently have everything that… Read More
Discovery apps like Yelp, Urbanspoon and Foursquare have proven useful to millions of people, but Peter Boctor sees a problem with them. While text reviews on those platforms include positive… Read More
Windows Phone owners will soon be able to share all the 7-second videos and filtered photos they could ever want. Stephen Elop just announced at Nokia World that the official… Read More
When you next open up Instagram on your smartphone, there might be a video already playing for you. In an update released today, Facebook removed the toggle that prevented videos… Read More
Just as Twitter revealed its IPO Thursday afternoon, Facebook-owned Instagram thought it’d be a nice time to drop a little news of its own. In short, advertisements are coming to… Read More
People posting photos, recording videos, making room reservations and reading the news on Sunday afternoon had to take a break for a few hours as an Amazon Web Services outage… Read More
New post: AWS server issues take down Instagram, Airbnb, Flipboard Original post: If you want to Instagram another selfie or post a hilarious Vine video, it looks like you’ll need… Read More
If you walk into work tomorrow and the boss demands access to your Facebook account, you can now use the law to refuse that request. Washington’s Senate Bill 5211 takes… Read More
It’s launch day for the Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows Phone, the one with the 41-megapixel camera. And coinciding with the launch, all Windows Phone users are getting a notable photo… Read More
The just-announced Nokia Lumia 1020 will be able to take some pretty amazing pictures with the 41-MP camera, but users still won’t be able to share any of those photos… Read More
It’s been about two weeks since Instagram unveiled its 15-second video feature and the response has been excellent for the Facebook-owned media-sharing platform. Less than 24 hours after its debut, more… Read More
Facebook-owned Instagram today launched a new video feature that will allow users to record 15-second clips, edit them with 13 new filters and share the motion pictures with all their friends.… Read More
Hashtags are coming to Facebook, as the social media giant announced today that it has added support for phrases with “#” placed in front, a technique made popular by Twitter. Similar… Read More
Facebook is still the social media king, but teens are using Twitter and Instagram at an increasing rate recently because, well, there’s just too much drama and gossip on Facebook.… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More