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Facebook launches Instagram-like "Camera" app

by Michael Grothaus (May 24th, 2012)

What do you do after spending a billion dollars buying a popular photography app? If you're Facebook, you then release your own branded app that does the exact same thing. Yes, Facebook has just launched the Facebook Camera app. The app allows you to take photos or select current photos from ...

Platter: novel photo-sharing social network for keen cooks

by Richard Gaywood (May 24th, 2012)

How do you launch a social networking site in this day and age, long after the likes of Facebook and Twitter seized the world? One answer is "micro-social networks": designed with a clear and specific purpose in mind, they can fulfill that purpose better than any of the generalists like ...

TwitPic launches app, way too late

by Mike Schramm (May 8th, 2012)

TwitPic, which was the first photo sharing service for Twitter (and probably the most popular for a while, at least until competing services like Instagram stepped up) has finally released an iPhone app. It's ill-timed to say the least, considering that Twitter now has an official service ...

Daily Update for April 9, 2012

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 9th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Facebook acquires Instagram for $1 billion

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 9th, 2012)

Facebook confirmed on its website that it has reached an agreement to purchase Instagram. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says, "I'm excited to share the news that we've agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook." The release says the photo-sharing app ...

Instaprint goes to Kickstarter to fund its Instagram photo booth hardware

by Steven Sande (Mar 5th, 2012)

Almost exactly a year ago, TUAW posted about Instaprint, a location-based printer for Instagram photos. Brooklyn, NY-based ad agency Breakfast even set up a live stream showing images spewing out of their printer from around the world. Now the company is back again, printing any Instagram photos ...

Instamatch turns Instagram into an engaging iOS game

by Steven Sande (Feb 22nd, 2012)

Are you a fan of Instagram? I often find myself taking snaps with the app, adding some special effects, and then posting them for close friends and complete strangers to enjoy. Now the folks at Tiny Hearts, the developers of the fun Pocket Zoo app I reviewed last year, have come up with Instamatch ...

App developers skirt Apple's 100-device testing limit

by Mike Schramm (Dec 30th, 2011)

The Wall Street Journal reports that some big iOS developers are having a real issue with Apple's limit on testing devices. According to the App Store rules, developers are restricted to 100 devices for testing via ad-hoc distribution. That may sound like a lot (and it likely is for small or ...

TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best iPhone photo and video apps

by Steven Sande (Dec 20th, 2011)

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing ...

Daily Update for November 11, 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 11th, 2011)

Instagram CEO hints at video sharing

by Mike Schramm (Nov 7th, 2011)

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt in Beijing last week, and hinted that video sharing would be coming soon to the popular mostly iOS-driven photo sharing service. "We really want to go after something bigger than filtered photos," he said, explaining that the service ...

Keepsy Calendars: Doing something fun with all those Instagram photos

by Steven Sande (Nov 1st, 2011)

Every once in a while a product shows up unexpectedly at the TUAW Labs that makes me really, really happy. A flat white box arrived at my door a few days ago, and when I opened it I saw a calendar and something about Instagram. I didn't bother to actually look at the calendar until a few days ...

Instagram 2.0 now available for iOS

by Kelly Guimont (Sep 20th, 2011)

Instagram announced on their blog today that version 2.0 of their popular iOS photography app is now available. Their post outlines a number of additions and changes in the new version, including "live view" of the filters, so you can see the filter applied before you even take the photo. My ...

Instagram users have uploaded over 150 million photos

by Dave Caolo (Aug 3rd, 2011)

Instagram's 4-person team has announced that the service's users have posted over 150 million photos. Consider that the free, social photo-sharing service now receives about 1.3 million photos per day -- that's 15 shots per second -- and you realize one thing: people really like sharing photos. ...

Sharing Instagram photos on Google+ automatically

by Steven Sande (Jul 14th, 2011)

Instagram (free) is a lot of fun, although it's often criticized as being the "auto-tune for photography." Google+ is the new social networking flavor of the week, so it's natural that the two services should get together. Wired's Gadget Lab has cooked up a recipe for more Instagram enjoyment by ...