Twitter updated its mobile apps today to include Instagram-like photo filters, as has been rumored for several weeks. The update comes a day after Instagram blocked Twitter from displaying users’ Instagram photos in the Twitter feed. If you share an Instagram photo on Twitter now, your followers will only see a link to Instagram’s...
Daily Archives: December 10, 2012
Instagram Investor: The Company Sold ‘Completely Prematurely’ (FB)
Sequoia Partners See Also Instagram Will No Longer Let You See Photos In Twitter There’s A War Brewing Between Twitter And Instagram Sequoia Capital’s Doug Leone Just Dissed Kleiner Perkins Sequoia Capital’s Doug Leone was an Instagram investor for only a couple of days before Facebook swooped in and bought the photo-sharing company for...
How Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman Became A Ridiculously Successful Tech Entrepreneur Worth Millions
Jeremy Stoppelman is the CEO of Yelp — a hot tech company worth billions of dollars. Previously, he was the VP of engineering at PayPal around the time it was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion. So, how did Jeremy Stoppelman get to where he is today? At Business Insider’s IGNITION conference last week,...
Instagram 3.2 is an impressive update that refines the camera experience and adds a new filter
Instagram has been pretty busy over the past few weeks. First it launched profile pages that finally gave users the chance to view someone’s entire photo set. Then it got even bolder when it announced that Twitter would no longer be displaying Instagram photos in the tweets. And to top things off, it has now...
City Lens, Nokia’s beta AR app for the Lumia, gets pause mode, Sightline, quick info and more
Nokia launched its City Lens augmented reality for Lumia devices in May and the Finnish company has just added a number of new features for owners of the Windows Phone 7 devices that give greater control and information, including a new Sightline feature, the option to pin of favorites and a pause mode. Still...
Microsoft balks at Apple’s 30% fee, leaving SkyDrive and apps that integrate with it in the lurch on iOS
Microsoft and Apple are currently locked in something of a Cold War over the future of SkyDrive in the iOS App Store. Sources close to Microsoft have detailed to TNW a difficult, and perhaps unresolvable situation between the two companies that underscores the difficulty with certain Apple rules concerning its app marketplace, and how far the company...
Want To Self-Publish A Book? Guy Kawasaki Wants To Help
If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a published author, you could hardly have picked a better time to be alive. A full-blown revolution is afoot in the way books are written, published and distributed, and the playing field has practically been nuked. It makes for some feel-good, tech-democratizes-all type stuff, but just because the...
Why Instagram Wins Its Rap Battle With Twitter
In the most shocking coincidence in all tech history, Twitter updated its apps with its rumored photo filters on the same day that Instagram 3.2 came out with an improved camera and new filters. This is really boring news. There is only one thing that’s interesting about the Blurry Photo War, and this is...
Women In Tech: How 3 Googlers Work To Correct The Imbalance
Monday is Ada Lovelace’s 197th birthday. You can thank her for the idea of reprogrammable computers and for publishing the first algorithm. Two centuries later, there are massive, world-changing companies whose beating hearts are algorithms like the ones Lovelace described. The computer algorithm as we know it was invented by a woman. But due...
Power and dumb machines are the biggest challenges for big data
The promise of “big data” is clear — or at least it’s becoming clearer, as companies share their case studies and stories about how they used data from social media to structure a better ad campaign or when a public health official shares disease tracking information gleaned from smartphones. But there are still plenty...