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Instagram, Twitter and Facebook were, without a doubt, the most talked about apps of 2012, but they’re not what we consider the top apps of the year. Newcomers like Zeebox and Ad Hawk weren’t part of everyday conversation for most smartphone users, but we feel they should be. Although some were launched before 2012, we Continue Reading →

Instagram’s tilt-shift effect is the finishing touch on a work of smartphone art. It can be a masterstroke or a muddy mess, depending on how you use it. Too often, we’ve seen tilt-shift overused, misappropriated or misunderstood. For the uninitiated, the tilt-shift effect is used by photographers to highlight a plane or exaggerate a minimal Continue Reading →

Will Facebook continue its reign atop the social hierarchy? Will businesses get better returns on their social media investment? Will your CEO finally learn to tweet? Here’s a look at the biggest social media trends set to unfold in the year ahead. Mobile social media usage continues to soar: In September, Facebook made a monumental–if Continue Reading →

They say a picture is worth a thousand words — and boy did Instragram’s servers have a colossal amount of words to deal with on Thursday. Via its blog, the Facebook-owned picture sharing service announced that, on Thanksgiving Day, more than 10 million holiday-related images were shared on the social network, which saw peak hour Continue Reading →

Photo sharing app Tracks has announced version 2.0 of its website. New features include the ability to create photo tracks via the web. In other words, Tracks just opened itself up to the world wide web, allowing anyone with access to the internet to participate on the image-based social network (rather than those with smartphones… Continue Reading →

Instagram is expanding to the Web with profile pages, a feature that’s been long-requested by the social network’s users. “You’ve asked for Instagram on the web and we’ve listened,” Instagram announced in a company blog post. “Over the next few days, we’ll be rolling out Instagram profiles on the web!” It should, however, come as no surprise Continue Reading →

Most of us remember where we were the moment the world learned about the billion-dollar sale of Instagram, but amidst the pursuing flurry of tweets (“it’s too high!,”It’s too low!”, “We need to integrate filters right now!”), if you happened to browse the AppStore that day you might have noticed that the now-infamous app was Continue Reading →

Yahoo has bought Stamped, the New York City based startup that lets people record and share their favorite restaurants, books, movies, and music, we’ve confirmed with a source at Stamped. The news has also been confirmed by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who posted an Instagram of herself with the Stamped founders. The deal is part Continue Reading →

Technology has made things a whole lot easier for child predators and pornography sites. It turns out they’re getting much of their material straight from kids’ online accounts. A new study found that 88% of sexual or suggestive images — taken and uploaded to social networks by children and young people themselves — are ending Continue Reading →

Miley Cyrus seems to think so. As does Ashley Tisdale, David Guetta, Paris Hilton, Chris Brown, and thousands of others who have joined the site in a matter of days. So what is Pheed? In short, think of it as Twitter, with a business plan. We always hear of “the-next-greatest-idea” social network that thinks it Continue Reading →