The Psychology Of Design: John Roa Shares A Look Inside AKTA
“The cruel truth is that I’m not even a designer today,” said John Roa, founder of AKTA design studio. But if he was never a designer, then what made AKTA one of Chicago’s most sought-after design studios, and Roa one of Chicago’s most influential entrepreneurs? Roa’s journey was riddled with successes, failures and a carefully [...]... Read More
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Post To Instagram And Get Paid With Portland-Based Chirpify
BY: Kathryn HoughPortland-based Chirpify launched a new feature this week that allows people to monetize their Instagram feeds. Chirpify allows in-stream transactions by integrating with PayPal and taking 5% of each transaction.
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Phonograf To Be “The Instagram For Music”
BY: Corey CummingsAtlanta-based startup Phonograf is looking to merge mobile music and social sharing with its forthcoming Android app. The app allows users to follow, comment, and elegantly share the music they love the most with their mobile network of friends.
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Hipster Glory Is Just A Stache Away. Stachify – The Instagram For Mustaches
BY: Corey CummingsShane Vitarana’s newest creation hit Apple’s App store late last week, allowing mobile photographers to snap photos of their friends and automatically affix one of a variety of mustaches to their upper lip.
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Socialmatic Concept Turns Instagram Icon Into Physical Camera
BY: Corey CummingsItalian designer Antonio de Rosa has created an interesting looking camera designed to replicate Instagram’s mobile app logo.
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How To Negotiate Like Instagram’s Kevin Systrom
BY: Kathryn HoughInstagram CEO Kevin Systrom’s smart negotiations between Twitter and Facebook ultimately helped him demand top dollar for the sale of his company.
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Polamatic By Polaroid: Instagram’s Inspiration Releases Its Own Photo App
BY: Corey CummingsPolaroid, the original company behind the square photography of yesteryear, has thrown its hat into the mobile photo sharing ring with its new app: Polamatic.
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Pinstagram: The Pinterest For Instagram
BY: Corey CummingsPinstagram, known as the “Pinterest for Instagram,” launched yesterday as a new way of easily viewing your Instagram photos on the web.
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Ben Horowitz Defends Instagram Payday That Could Have Been
BY: Corey CummingsLate Sunday night Ben Horowitz of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz wrote a blog post defending the comparatively meager payday the company received when Instagram was acquired by Facebook this month. That meager amount was $78 million, a return of more than 300 times its original investment. “Ordinarily, when someone criticizes me for only making [...]
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Instagram Latest To Ban Self-Harm Groups
BY: Corey CummingsAfter migrating from Tumblr to Pinterest and now onto Instagram, the Facebook-acquired photo sharing service is the most recent community to update its user policy against posting material deemed to depict “self-harming” behavior. The move particularly targets the growing “thinspiration” community, which was ousted from Pinterest only a month ago. Thinspiration is a following that glorifies [...]
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Instagram’s Success Explained Through Instagram [GIF]
BY: Techli teamIn only two years, Instagram went from a simple photo-sharing application to a social phenomenon with over 30M users. And now thanks their $1 billion acquisition by Facebook, Instagram has risen to arguably the most profitable mobile application in history and the poster-child for the mobile app boom. In honor of their achievement, it seems fitting Online [...]
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Instagram’s Future With Facebook
BY: Corey CummingsToday on Instagram’s blog, co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom announced that the company has agreed to be acquired by Facebook. The news broke only a week after Instagram finally made its big move to the Android mobile platform, on which the app was downloaded more than 1 million times in only 12 hours. Facebook revealed [...]
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[UPDATE] Facebook Acquires Instagram For $1 Billion
BY: Lindsay ONealInstagram announced they are being acquired by Facebook today in a blog post signed by CEO Kevin Systrom. When Mike and I started Instagram nearly two years ago, we set out to change and improve the way the world communicates and shares. We’ve had an amazing time watching Instagram grow into a vibrant community of people from all around [...]
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Five Types Of People Who Can’t Stand Instagram
BY: Jon ChristianAn Android version of smash hit photo sharing app Instagram was released this week, racking up a staggering one million downloads in its first 24 hours. But not everybody is pleased. Here’s our roundup of the five groups who are (or have) harbored the strongest grudges against the retro photography app. #5 Purists Now Instagram [...]
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Instagram For Android Achieves Over 1 Million Downloads On Its First Day
BY: Jason RowleySince becoming available on Google’s Play marketplace just yesterday, over 1 million users downloaded Instagram for Android, which has so far been available only on iOS. Instagram’s Android release was not an “overnight success,” as the company opened up pre-release registration on March 24th and received some 430,000 signups. For those who’ve come to know [...]
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Download Instagram For Android Today
BY: Corey CummingsMore than a year after its launch on the iPhone, the popular photo sharing community Instagram is finally hitting the Android OS today. Previously the application was only available on Apple’s iOS, as the developers focused first on scaling their service for avid mobile photographers. In a blog post today the company shared its excitement [...]
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Instaprint Turns Your IPhone Into A Photo Booth
BY: Corey CummingsInstaprint is an internet-capable printer that spits out Instagram shots in the most suitable form possible: small square Polaroids. Breakfast, the New York-based company of inventors, as they call themselves, created the product specifically to pair up with Instagram’s nostalgically filtered photos, saying its reasons for developing the product stemmed from a longing for “those [...]
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Instagram Android App Surfaces At SXSW; Systrom Says Better Than iPhone App
BY: Corey CummingsAfter several months of waiting, Instagram’s Android app made its first appearance at SXSW this week in prototype form. The app has been exclusive to the iPhone since it’s release in late 2010 and went on to win Apple’s iPhone app of the year last year. With all the excitement and acclaim since it first [...]
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4 Reasons Instagram Will Continue to Dominate in 2012
BY: Andrew TorbaLooking into 2012, there are five reasons Instagram will continue to see growth and success.
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