Hotel Tonight Wants You to Snap Photos of Your Hotel Room (Selfies Not...
Hotel Tonight, the iOS and Android app for booking last-minute hotel rooms, is adding an Instagram-like photo-sharing service — minus the filters — for hotel guests to snap pictures of their stays....
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Social App Pheed Brings Streaming Pay-Per-View to Mobile
There’s a reason that social app Pheed has catered to the creative community in the six months since it launched. It’s an amalgam of sites like Instagram and video- and audio-sharing apps, where...
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As Google+ Pushes Hard Into Photos, the Race Is On to Own Your Memories
Our memories are important. We take millions of photos every single day. We post to our Facebook Timeline, pin to Pinterest boards. Clearly, we care about the past. And our friends in Silicon Valley...
View ArticleLed by Greylock, Social App MessageMe Raises $10 Million
MessageMe, the mobile application that offers free text, photo and video messaging between smartphones, announced Tuesday that it had raised a $10 million round led by John Lilly of Greylock Partners —...
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With New Mobile App, Nextdoor Unveils Its Take on the Neighborhood Watch
Think of what you’re used to in a local neighborhood-watch group: Signs posted around a community with contact information, perhaps monthly meetings to discuss safety issues and concerns. Until now, it...
View ArticleApple's Newest iPhone Ad Still Says Nothing, Is a Little Less Great
The deceptively simple iPhone ad Apple rolled out last month has garnered all sorts of praise. Totally justified! So you can see why they’d try a new one, using the exact same format, music and...
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E3 in Photos: The Wacky, the Weird and the Gaming Warriors
This week, the E3 videogame conference descended upon downtown Los Angeles, and brought with it thousands of rabid game fans, a smattering of celebrities and some out-there promotional tactics (so,...
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Next: Yahoo Also Eyeing Automated Video App Maker Qwiki in $50 Million Deal
According to sources close to the company, Yahoo is considering paying up to $50 million for Qwiki, the New York startup that makes an Apple iPhone app that allow users to turn photos, music and...
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Photo-Sharing Startup Cooliris Partners With China's Tencent, Russia's Yandex
Cooliris, the Kleiner Perkins-backed startup focused on bringing a photo-browsing gallery-like product to mobile and the Web, announced on Tuesday a new joint partnership with Tencent and Yandex, two...
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Following Flickr's Redesign, SmugMug Revamps Its Service
Snapped a photo lately? Of course you have. We’re now a society obsessed with digital images — Instagrams, Twitpics and “selfies.” Facebook’s recently revamped News Feed is focused on photos. And if...
View ArticleYahoo Ingests IQ Engines
Add another Yahoo acquisition to the pile. The Internet company has purchased “image intelligence” outfit IQ Engines for an undisclosed price. IQ Engines, which develops image recognition software...
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Coder's Site Tracks Trending Twitter GIFs in Real Time
Welcome to Monday’s single-serving site of the day. Like some amalgam of Twitter’s stream and BuzzFeed’s penchant for animated photos, Web developer Adam Wentz’s Gifhell.com is exactly what it sounds...
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Media Device Stores and Shares Well With Others
[ See post to watch video ] Plenty of people are digital pack rats and proud of it. And why not? With seemingly unlimited remote storage options available free of charge or for a small monthly fee,...
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In Facebook's Proposed Privacy Policy Updates, Your Face Pics Really Do Matter
Facebook is considering making another set of changes to its data-use and user-rights policies, a move that the company positions as a clearer way to explain how Facebook uses member data. In the...
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Twitter's Third Act: A New Design to Court the Mainstream
Twitter has lots of users. It wants a lot more. That is, in part, why it is planning a massive overhaul of its mobile apps, designed to make the service more appealing to mainstream users. You should...
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How to Launch a New Photo App: Wait for iOS 7 Launch, Try to Get Featured....
Another new photo-sharing app? In 2013? Really? Yup, really. But say this for the team behind Memoir, which is launching today: While sharing photos is a component of what their app does, it’s not...
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New iOS App Memoir Jogs Your Memory With Old Photos
Call it a first-world problem: The more photos we capture with our fancy smartphones, the more photos we have to sort through. In the future, we may look back at the many thousands of digital photos we...
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Loom Gets $1.4 Million in Seed Funding From Google, Tencent to Build a Better...
Seeking to stand out in a crowded photo-storage space, Loom said on Friday that it has raised a $1.4 million seed round to fund its vision for syncing photos across multiple devices. Investors include...
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With a Slew of Updates, Google+ Makes Its Photography Pitch
If Google were still trying to figure out how to fit yet another social network into people’s lives, it isn’t anymore. The search giant has aimed Google+, its company-wide social platform initiative,...
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Twitter's Mobile Apps Begin to Look a Bit More Like Instagram
Continuing its trudge toward becoming a more media-centric service, Twitter on Tuesday announced a new version of its iOS and Android mobile applications, giving more prominence to photos and video in...
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Some People Take the PlayStation 4 a Lot More Seriously Than Others (Slideshow)
In AllThingsD’s Q&A with Jack Tretton this week, the Sony Computer Entertainment of America CEO explained at length why he thinks the new PlayStation 4 can weather the storm of changing media...
View ArticleSnapchat Users Upload More Photos Than Facebook? Not So Fast.
Snapchat, the startup darling of the moment, is claiming that its users upload more photos and videos each day than Facebook users. Upon inspection though, the numbers vanish, like a Snapchat message....
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Here's What a Twitter Photo-Sharing Service Might Look Like (But It's...
If you are a certain kind of sad person, then yesterday, in between your second serving of stuffing and first bout of regret, you learned about Magic Pics. It’s a Twitter account that promises to...
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Heyday App Is a Journal of Your Life That Writes Itself
An iPhone app called Heyday launches today — it compiles a record of its owner’s life, based on places visited and photos taken. This is a topic I’ve been particularly interested in, as it becomes more...
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With Private Messaging, Instagram and Twitter Continue Their Arms Race
So Instagram introduced a version of private messaging on Thursday morning, allowing users to send photos to only one or a few of their followers at a time. And it’s a fine decision. Communication...
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