October 31, 2011 : Comments (4)
Google+ Updates Android App, Adds New Design And Other Features
Photo Sharing
Bergdorf Goodman Launches Instagram-powered Manhattan Shoe Map
Have you ever wanted to know where people go after they buy fancy shoes from the store? Well, department store Bergdorf Goodman is giving you the chance to do just that with the launch of its Shoes About Town map, which shows where people have been taking photos of their shoes in and around Manhattan, New York, using Instagram. Bergdorf Goodman is encouraging you... Read more » Flickr Introduces Cool Location-based Privacy Feature, ‘Geofences’
Flickr has launched an interesting new privacy feature that allows you to create geo privacy settings for photos that have been tagged with a location. The new feature, which is called “geofences,” allows you to create circles on a map to control who can view the location of photos that you've geotagged within that circle's real-world boundaries. This will... Read more » Facebook Makes Photos Bigger And Faster, Changes Lightbox
With 250 million photos being added each day, the photo-sharing feature is one of the most popular on Facebook. With that in mind, the company has just announced it will display higher-resolution photos as part of an update it is rolling out to its photo-sharing feature. You can now share photos that are up to 960 pixels wide (up from 720 pixels) and photos will... Read more »
REPORT: Facebook Tried To Acquire Instagram, Will Add Photo Filters To Mobile Apps
Facebook is reportedly set to take on Instagram, Picplz and other photo-sharing services that use filters by adding photo filters to its mobile apps. The photo filters have apparently been ready for some time, but Mark Zuckerberg is said to want more filters to be developed before adding the feature to the apps. According to The New York Times, which cited 2... Read more » Twitter Rolls Out Photo Galleries, Displays Photos Tweeted Using yFrog, Instagram And More
Twitter has started to roll out user photo galleries. You will now be able to browse a user's profile and see the photos that person has tweeted using yFrog, TwitPic, Instagram, Twitter's own photo-sharing feature and other photo-sharing services. Your gallery will display the 100 most recent images that you have included in your tweets. Tweets with video links... Read more » Flickr Updates Contact View, Adds Light Box Feature And Keyboard Shortcuts
The photo-sharing service Flickr has added some new display options and a guide to keyboard shortcuts to help users swiftly navigate around the service. Flickr has given users the option of selecting photo size right inside of the stream for their contacts' recent uploads. Previously, to get all sizes of a photo, a user would have to click on the picture to visit... Read more » Foodspotting Hits 1 Million App Downloads, Adds Follow Feature To iPhone And Android Apps
Foodspotting, the photo-sharing service for foodies, has revealed that its app has now been downloaded more than 1 million times. To celebrate the occasion, the service has updated its iPhone and Android apps with a new Follow feature. The Foodspotting website has allowed you to follow your favorite people, places and dishes for some time and this functionality... Read more » Photo-sharing App GLMPS Lets You Add Short Videos To Your Photos
A new photo-sharing app called GLMPS offers a different way of taking and sharing pictures using your phone. The app combines photo and video to provide a unique spin on the process of taking photos. When you take a photo using the app, a video of the 5 seconds leading up to the moment that the photo was taken is attached to the photo. That's pretty cool. Once you... Read more »
Flickr Hits 6 Billion Photos
Just one day after it was revealed that Instagram had hit a significant milestone (150 million photos), Flickr has announced one of its own: the photo-sharing service hit 6 billion photo uploads this week. On Monday, the 6 billionth photo to appear on Flickr (which you can see below) was uploaded by a user called eon60. Photo uploads to Flickr have been increasing... Read more » 
