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People must love the Mouse. Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., is officially the most popular geo-tagged location on Instagram. The Magical… Read More

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Updated: The selfies are back! Instagram is working again after brief outage

Update (2:21 p.m.): Instagram is back online after a brief outage that lasted about a half hour this afternoon. The company… Read More

App of the Week: Hyperlapse makes time lapse videos smooth as butter

Time lapse photography has created some truly iconic videos, but making them on a phone is quite the challenge. They… Read More

A real ‘Hyperlapse’: How Microsoft’s culture needs to change next

A few weeks ago, Microsoft researchers unveiled Hyperlapse — an impressive project that turns first-person videos into smooth, stable time-lapse scenes using some advanced computer science.… Read More

Nordstrom uses new Instagram-style service to draw sales

As a retail brand, Nordstrom holds a coveted position on Instagram. It has more than 530,000 followers who scan new… Read More

Two thumbs up 2.0: How social media affects our behavior at the movie theater

Social media tools are changing the movie theater experience before, during and after seeing a flick on the big screen.… Read More

Hold your fire: Facebook, Instagram try to curb gun sales without background checks

Facebook announced today that it will take steps to prevent illegal gun sales on its site and Instagram, following intense… Read More

Pew social media study: Facebook still king; Pinterest more popular than Twitter

Kids may be leaving Facebook, but that isn’t enough to take the network down from atop the social media pedestal.… Read More

Instagram announces Instagram Direct, a way to share photos with a select few

If Instagram users had a photo they only wanted to share with a select few, the Facebook-owned photo sharing service… Read More

Instagram finally launching for Windows Phone, without full video support for now

Instagram announced today that its app for Windows Phone will be launching today in the Windows Phone Store, as teased… Read More

Instapiration: Skedadel uses Instagram photos to help recommend things to do, places to see

Discovery apps like Yelp, Urbanspoon and Foursquare have proven useful to millions of people, but Peter Boctor sees a problem… Read More

Finally: Instagram, Vine apps coming to Windows Phone

Windows Phone owners will soon be able to share all the 7-second videos and filtered photos they could ever want.… Read More

You can’t opt out of auto-playing Instagram video on mobile anymore, but here’s how to spare your wallet

When you next open up Instagram on your smartphone, there might be a video already playing for you. In an… Read More

Hey, Instagram users: Get ready for advertisements

Just as Twitter revealed its IPO Thursday afternoon, Facebook-owned Instagram thought it’d be a nice time to drop a little… Read More

AWS server issues take down Instagram, Airbnb, Flipboard

People posting photos, recording videos, making room reservations and reading the news on Sunday afternoon had to take a break… Read More

Instagram, Vine stop working at same time; people use Twitter to freak out

New post: AWS server issues take down Instagram, Airbnb, Flipboard Original post:  If you want to Instagram another selfie or… Read More

It’s now illegal for employers to ask for your social media passwords in Washington

If you walk into work tomorrow and the boss demands access to your Facebook account, you can now use the… Read More

Hello, Lumia 1020! Windows Phone gets Hipstamatic Oggl, partial Instagram integration

It’s launch day for the Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows Phone, the one with the 41-megapixel camera. And coinciding with the… Read More

Vine, Path, Flipboard — but not Instagram — coming to Windows Phone 8

The just-announced Nokia Lumia 1020 will be able to take some pretty amazing pictures with the 41-MP camera, but users… Read More

These five brands are kicking ass with Instagram video

It’s been about two weeks since Instagram unveiled its 15-second video feature and the response has been excellent for the Facebook-owned… Read More

Instagram debuts 15-second video feature, complete with filters and editing

Facebook-owned Instagram today launched a new video feature that will allow users to record 15-second clips, edit them with 13 new… Read More

You can now use #hashtags on Facebook

Hashtags are coming to Facebook, as the social media giant announced today that it has added support for phrases with “#”… Read More

Report: Teens leave Facebook for Twitter, because they want less drama

Facebook is still the social media king, but teens are using Twitter and Instagram at an increasing rate recently because,… Read More

An app for your apps: WideAngle puts your photos in one place

Say you’ve just returned from a weekend trip in Vegas. You and all your raging friends took many, many pictures… Read More

Nokia begs Instagram for a Windows Phone app, creates #2InstaWithLove

Nokia is getting creative to show how badly it wants an Instagram app for Windows Phones. “We’ve been listening, and we… Read More

Instagram hits 100M user mark 28 months after launch

Instagram, welcome to the 100 million club. The Facebook-owned photo sharing social network announced today that two-and-a-half years after launch,… Read More

POLL: Should employers have access to your social media passwords?

Imagine this for a second: You walk into your next job interview, sit down and the employer asks you for… Read More

The 10 social media tools that every startup must have

Social media has revolutionized the way we communicate. With the revolution has come insane amounts of data, analytics and information… Read More

Calm down, people: Instagram isn’t selling your souls

One of the bigger tech stories going on right now is the whirlwind Instagram created with its new polices that… Read More

Clipsy hopes to break into video-sharing scene

As Brad Brewer pulled out his iPhone and showed me Clipsy at last week’s GeekWire Gala, the amount of moving… Read More

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