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The Facebook-owned photo sharing company announced the news on its network yesterday along with the photo pictured left. Curiously the photo doesn’t seem to have a filter on it, despite the popularity of filters on the app.

Here is more from Instagram:

This isn’t just a milestone for us as a company, but one for the entire Instagram community. In honor of this, we want to hear your stories. Share your photos of what Instagram means to you and tag them #InstagramMeansToMe so we can hear your voices. We’ll feature some of our favorite photos right here on our account.

Last month, Instagram expanded its app to the web and now users can view their entire instagram stream online. But you still have to use the app to share photos.

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Your Instagram Feed on the web functions much like it does on your mobile phone. You can browse through the latest photos of people whom you follow with updates as people post new photos. Like photos by double clicking on them or pressing the like button. Or, engage in a conversation around a photo with inline commenting. Browse through pages of the most recent images to keep up on what’s happening with the people you follow in realtime.

The gradual move to desktop services does not mean the company wishes to abandon its mobile driven app. Instagram insists that the service is about “taking photos on the go” while additional desktop expansions allow users to access their photos on any device at any time.

This strategy will inevitably allow Instagram various streams of revenue since its purchase by Facebook. However, its parent company has shown that mobile advertising is more lucrative. Since desktop Instagram offers less than its mobile counterpart and it may inevitably be a stepping stone for an eventual Facebook integration.

This probably means the demise of Webstagram.

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The Instagram blog today points out that, “nothing has changed about your photos’ ownership or who can see them.” Instead, Instagram points out that the new policies are designed to make the app more easily integrated with Facebook and to prevent spam. continued…

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Tommy uses Siri in order to access the touch-enabled buttons on his iPhone and voice dictation in order to add captions to his images. Like other Instagram users, Tommy also applies a filter to his images.

I don’t think I’d ever take pictures if I ask anybody what they looked like, you know, if they were any good or not.

 

Watch Tommy’s Video on how to use Instagram by clicking below. continued…

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In the wake of privacy policy changes at Instagram, the popular photo sharing app has seen its daily active user count decline dramatically on Facebook.

Our sibling network AppData mapped the changes (chart embedded above, click to enlarge).

The New York Post has more: “Instagram users outraged over new rules made good on their threat to dump the popular photo-sharing app … Instagram, which peaked at 16.4 million active daily users the week it rolled out its policy change, had fallen to 12.4 million as of yesterday, according to the data. Last week, Instagram changed its terms of service to pave the way for advertising.”

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We’ve made a list of five photo-sharing apps that are worth checking out. Below we’ve listed the app and included links and the app’s description.

1. Flickr: “Capture and create stunning photos: Take photos with the app’s easy-to-use camera and make them your own with all new filters, editing features, and geo-tagging. Share your photos with anyone, anywhere: Instantly share with your Flickr groups and Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or email contacts. You pick. Discover the world through photos: The most interesting images in the world live on Flickr. Rediscover the world and be inspired by the Flickr community of photo hobbyists.” continued…

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The company had hoped “to experiment with innovative advertising,” and blamed confusion over language in the new terms.

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom explained: “We are working on updated language in the terms to make sure this is clear. To provide context, we envision a future where both users and brands alike may promote their photos & accounts to increase engagement and to build a more meaningful following. Let’s say a business wanted to promote their account to gain more followers and Instagram was able to feature them in some way. In order to help make a more relevant and useful promotion, it would be helpful to see which of the people you follow also follow this business. In this way, some of the data you produce — like the actions you take (eg, following the account) and your profile photo — might show up if you are following this business.”

The letter concluded:

The language we proposed also raised question about whether your photos can be part of an advertisement. We do not have plans for anything like this and because of that we’re going to remove the language that raised the question. Our main goal is to avoid things likes advertising banners you see in other apps that would hurt the Instagram user experience. Instead, we want to create meaningful ways to help you discover new and interesting accounts and content while building a self-sustaining business at the same time.

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Users on mobile could still experience the in-Twitter Instagram experience with apps like Tweetbot. Another workaround is by using this IFTTT recipe that bypasses Instagram’s turning off of Twitter cards.

Twitter’s new Aviary-powered photo filters and the impending photo war with Instagram and Facebook might be growing tepid already.

Via Memeburn

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Do you want to turn your Instagram photos into books? Keepsy will help you design and print an Instagram book–learn more in the video embedded above.

The self-publishing company Blurb will print Instagram photo books quickly, offering five different kinds of paper and three kinds of covers. Prices start at $10.95 for a 20-page paperback book.

At the same time, the Instagram app is a powerful tool for designing book covers. Using a tool like the Overgram app, you can add stylish text to your photos and create covers or illustrations for your digital book.

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Here is more from Instagram’s blog: “Your web profile features a selection of your recently shared photographs just above your profile photo and bio, giving others a snapshot of the photos you share on Instagram. In addition, you can follow users, comment & like photos and edit your profile easily and directly from the web.”

The pages look a lot like a social network profile pages, dominated by images. You can see Mycookingdiary‘s page pictured left. Companies are also taking advantage of the new feature. Check out Nike’s page here.  continued…

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The photos are a great detour from the giant graphics we’ve been seeing that show most of the Eastern Seaboard all in red. They show sobering images from the trenches of the storm like this photo (pictured left) from hoeboma of Atlantic City flooding and shots of flooding in Manhattan.

It’s also got a collection of images of hurricane preparations, from empty store shelves to cabinets well stocked with water, packaged foods and beer. There are, of course, some silly pics. (Via TechCrunch).

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May I present Instagrille.

This app seems to have been out for a while now, but I just heard about it today. It’s an HTML5 based app which is designed to run on the Pokki app framework. It’s free, and it lets heck your feed, see your notifications, and make comments. You even have the option of downloading photos to your computer.

Now, I’m not one to do a lot of photography, but I can say that this is a sweet app. It’s remarkably lightweight, and when minimized it runs in my taskbar without using any appreciable resources.  It’s definitely worth getting.

If you don’t have a PC, you can find a similar app for OSX called Carousel. It costs $2 in iTunes.

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