Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom recently sat down for an interview with The Guardian, sharing some thoughts on the future of the platform and where he sees the company in five years. Among finding ways to grow and tackling the issue of advertising, Systrom said he wants to see his photo-sharing service, which was purchased by Facebook last year, "on every platform, on every kind of phone...
This morning the Internet was abuzz with reports that Instagram was tracking and deleting photos uploaded to its servers from third-party Windows Phone app Instance (curiously, similar third-party apps including Instagraph and Hipstamatic Oggl never stopped working). The reason, it turns out, is that Instagram wasn't blocking Instance uploads on purpose at all. A company representative...
We just started testing BlackBerry’s new Q10 smartphone, the one we’ve been holding out for since it’s the full physical QWERTY keyboard we’ve been missing so much. We used the Z10 for a while, but now that we’re revisiting a new BlackBerry we decided to figure out how to get some of the more popular Android applications on the phone. BlackBerry’s App World doesn’t offer a lot of key...
Instagram got a small dose of Facebook on Thursday, with an update that allows users to tag their friends in photos. No more @ mentions. It’s exactly the same experience you’d find when sifting through albums in Zuckerberg’s online friend palace. Once you update, a new section on your profile will be added, called “Photos of You,” which displays every photo you’ve been tagged in in...
Socialmatic‘s dream of producing a physical Instagram camera just got real, thanks to a new agreement that gives the company the right to build the device under the Polaroid brand. So what do you get when you combine the filter-happy, photo-sharing service with one of the most beloved old-school instant cameras? You get this crazy cute device that recasts the Instagram icon as a...
As promised, Instagram has announced that its user agreement will revert to its previous version starting January 19. The move comes after a public outcry last December over revised terms that insinuated user images could be pulled into advertising without consent or compensation. Truth is, the old terms that are back on deck doesn't really protect users any better than the revised...
This year was loaded with amazing tech stories, both good and bad. But there were some pretty huge blunders that left us with our jaws wide open, staring in disbelief at our screens as we wrote up the news stories. Here are 10 of the biggest tech blunders of this year that we can think of. Apple Maps Does this one really need any real explanation? Did you see it when it launched ?...
There has been quite some der-rama in mobile photo-land lately, with Instagram’s latest PR/privacy/ToU fail. When the service issued a revamped Terms of Use, users absolutely freaked out and blamed new parent company Facebook for the “changes” that would allow companies to grab user images and put them into ads. Truth is, Instagram always had the ability to use your pics, and plenty of...
People are understandably freaking out about Instagram’s new ToS. Facebook wants to monetize the service, and to do that it has to run ads. But, according to its own terms, it might cull from Instagram’s mighty userbase to do so. Maybe. CEO Kevin Systrom on Tuesday said the company has no intentions to sell user photos, and that it does not have plans to use profile photos in...
Instagram has been a hot topic since the social network, now owned by Facebook, updated its terms of service (ToS) last night. We covered it in depth a bit earlier today , so be sure to read up on the new changes and how they will affect you as a user. In general, Instagram isn't going to sell your photos to anyone, but it did say that it will allow advertisers to use your photos in...