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Facebook releases Facebook Camera App; No, This is Not Instagram

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A few weeks ago, Facebook made waves when it announced that it has bought the hugely popular photo taking app Instagram for $1 billion. According to the press statement, Instagram will be developed independent of Facebook. With Facebook recently announcing its own photo taking feature that promise may have been kept but it also creates a lot of questions about the future of both Facebook and Instagram.

The new Facebook Camera is a new app that the leading social networking company will be releasing on the iTunes App Store. [Read more…]

Originally posted on May 25, 2012 @ 1:09 pm

Android Finally Gets Instagram

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One app that Android users have always wished they had on their preferred mobile operating system is Instagram. The very popular photo taking app has been a longtime player in the iOS environment. Android users have always requested that the app be ported to Android. But even if a port has been hinted at, it never really materialized.

Until today, that is. [Read more…]

Originally posted on April 4, 2012 @ 10:03 am

Instagram Tops App Store, Gets 1M Downloads in Android

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Instagram got a lot of flak from iOS users when two events happened within the space of days – Instagram’s release of an Android version of the popular photo shooting app and the announcement that Facebook as bought the company behind Instagram for a cool $1 billion. The negative reactions from long-time Instagram users got so intense that many of them said they will abandon the app and delete their Instagram account. [Read more…]

Originally posted on April 12, 2012 @ 11:37 am

Instagram for Android Announced, To Be Released “Very Soon”

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Android users have envied iOS device owners for a number of things, and one of these is Instagram. The hugely popular photo sharing app has been available to iOS devices. Android users have been clamoring for an Android version of Instagram but development but it seemed like the guys behind instagram didn’t have an Android port as a priority so much so that Instagram clones have proliferated at the Android Market, one of them being Streamzoo. [Read more…]

Originally posted on March 13, 2012 @ 8:16 pm

Viddy Positioning Itself as “Instagram For Videos”

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Instagram is a hugely popular app for iOS devices. The free app allows people to take pictures and employ different filters on the photo to create a multitude of effects. Instagram is so popular that it’s no surprise that other developers are coming out with Instagram clones, basically offering the same kind of functionality. But Viddy is taking a completely different path while at the same time taking inspiration from Instagram. [Read more…]

Originally posted on February 8, 2012 @ 7:30 pm