October 31, 2011 : Comments (4)
Google+ Updates Android App, Adds New Design And Other Features
Photo Sharing
Photo Discovery Service Pixable Snaps Up $3.6M In Funding
Pixable -- a company which aims to provide users with new ways to discover their friends' photos -- has announced that it has raised $3.6 million in a Series B funding round that was led by Menlo Ventures with Highland Capital Partners also participating. The funding will be used to scale Pixable's engineering team and infrastructure in order to handle increasing... Read more »
Foursquare Shows Photos From Friends You Checked-In With At Venues
Foursquare has introduced a new social photo feature, meaning that every time you check-in with your friends, you will be able to see all the photos they have taken on your check-in detail page. You will be able to see all of your friend's photos from a venue on the same screen. When your Foursquare friends look at the screen, they will see mutual friends who... Read more » iPhone 4 Fast Becoming Most Popular Camera For Flickr Users
The iPhone 4 is set to become the most popular camera among users of photo-sharing service Flickr. The smartphone, which was released last June, has overtaken several camera models manufactured by Canon and is on the verge of dethroning the Nikon D90 as the first-choice among Flickr photobugs. What's even more remarkable is that the D90 has been around for almost... Read more »
Astronaut Tweets Amazing First TwitPic #FromSpace
Ron Garan, a NASA astronaut, took to Twitter Friday to send out his very first TwitPic -- one that is literally out of this world. @Astro_Ron, as Garan is otherwise known, shared his view of Earth from the International Space Station and asked his 17,550 followers, "Anyone know where in the world this is?" Among the guesses include New Zealand's North Island (a... Read more »
Frenchman’s Facebook Account Suspended Due To Nude Painting
A French family man had his Facebook account suspended over a nude oil painting by 19th century artist Gustave Coubet. The man posted the explicit painting titled "The Origin of the World" (NSFW, so put two and two together or Google it yourself) to his Facebook account only to have the account suspended the evening of February 27, otherwise known as the night before... Read more »
Postagram Lets You Send Postcard-Style Instagram Photos To Your Friends
Instagram is brilliant. The photo-sharing service makes it ridiculously easy to take great photos and share them with your friends. However, a new service called Postagram takes the concept of photo-sharing a step further, by allowing you to send a print of an Instagram photo to yourself or a friend in the style of a postcard. Postagram (a combination of... Read more »
Ohio Police Department Posts Mug Shots Of People With Outstanding Warrants on Facebook
The multiple and creative uses for Facebook never cease to fascinate me. The police department in Avon Lake, Ohio are using one of Facebook's most popular features to call out people with outstanding warrants by posting their mug shots in a Facebook album entitled (what else?) "Warrants." Facebook VICTORY! The album currently has 96 mug shots of folks with... Read more » Pixable Releases Photofeed App For iPhone
The online photo-aggregating service is finally releasing its Photofeed App for iPhone. The app will allow iPhone users to see and interact with millions of photos from the most popular photo hosting social networks. Photofeed aggregates photos from Facebook, Flickr and Instagram and loads them all onto one feed iPhone users will be able to access within the app.... Read more »
Flickr Adds Facebook, Twitter Sharing Options
Photo-sharing service Flickr has made it much simpler for users to share their images with friends on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr through a new “Share This” feature. Previously, Flickr users were able to share groups, sets and photostreams through email, by grabbing the link manually or posting a code to Blogger. However, you will now be able to share to... Read more » Couple Sues Facebook Over Photos Of Dead Daughter
A couple from Staten Island is suing Facebook for hosting pictures posted by an EMT worker of their murdered daughter at the scene of the crime. Martha and Ronald Wimmer filed the suit on Friday, March 25. Caroline Wimmer was murdered March 28, 2009. Her body was found strangled by the chord of her hair dryer in her apartment. EMT worker Mark Musarella trespassed... Read more »
