In an update to their mobile apps today, Instagram has added Facebook-like tagging to uploaded images. In an official blog post, Instagram explains that the new feature is called Photos Of You. Here’s how it works. When you upload an image to Instagram, you can now associate that image with people as easy as adding …
Did your Klout score go up recently? Thank Instagram and Bing.
I keep an eye on my Klout score and watch for major shifts in score, one way or the other. They can sometimes indicate that I’m neglecting a network, or perhaps some of my recent activity is being better received. I recently noticed a 4 point uptick in my score and that is definitely out …
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How to dump Instagram and save your images to Flickr
In the weeks leading up to Christmas, Instagram made a series of PR mistakes that alienated a vast number of users. In an attempt to update and clarify their Terms of Use, many users and mainstream media outlets interpreted the new Instagram TOS as stating that Instagram owned all user images and would be able …
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Some positive news from Instagram
It’s been a rough Holiday Season for Instagram. The Facebook-owned photo-sharing startup continued their PhotoWar with Twitter and stopped supporting Twitter Cards, resulting in all images ever shared to Twitter from Instagram changing from an embedded image to just a link. Then, Instagram attempted to update their Terms of Use and ended up alienating potentially …
Instagram may change their Terms of Service, again.
On December 17th, Instagram announced that in 30 days they would enact a new Terms of Service, and offered a few choice nuggets for what was different from the old ToS. Within hours, news had spread across the Internet that Instagram was suddenly going to start using all our images for ads and stories, and …
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How much money will Instagram get for my pictures?
By now you’ve probably heard this week’s news about Instagram: they’ve enacted a new Terms of Service which explicitely states that they can feel free to sell or use your images without your consent or payment. People have been blogging about it, posting to Facebook, and it’s even been in the mainstream news. Some users …
Instagram update removes import ability
Last week Instagram released a major update to the photo-sharing app that certainly added a number of features. However, we are left to wonder if the folks at Instagram (owned by Facebook) weren’t a little preoccupied with Twitter, as a major piece of functionality from previous versions was removed. Instagram users can no longer import …
Instagram improves app, fights Twitter
Instagram has had a busy few days! Over the weekend, the social picture sharing app decided that they no longer wanted to play nice with Twitter. Then, today, a new version of their app was released that contained quite a few great changes and features. Instagram App Update The update to the Instagram app included …
Twitter Takes More Steps to Control the Twitter Experience, Cuts Off Instagram
Starting with LinkedIn, Twitter has been publicly making moves to gain more control over Twitter user’s experience. Several weeks ago, Twitter severed ties with LinkedIn and stopped allowing Twitter user’s Tweets to be automatically displayed within the LinkedIn site on user’s profile pages. Now, Instagram is next.
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