A while ago we broke the news that Instagram would soon be placing ads in your news feed. Many people were miffed, but many applauded Instagram for allowing users to close the ad once they’ve seen it, and for allowing feedback about how to make ads more aesthetically appealing and personally valuable. The first of what will be a long line of instagram ads appeared on users’ screens last friday, and it was an ad for American designer Michael Kors.
Well, ex step dad, now that Bruce Jenner has divorced Kim Kardashian’s mom, Kris. But that would be way to complicated to explain in a headline. Anyway, the drummer for the Black Keys is a guy by the name of Patrick Carney, and his Instagram account is one of the funniest shrines to plastic surgery […]
Platforms like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook that were developed alongside the smartphone have birthed a new creative class – the phone-tographers. Some phone photography enthusiasts are good, composing neat shots of their family, their pets and their holidays. Some of them, however, should never have been handed anything capable of taking photos. If you fall into the latter group of individuals, you’ll be happy to know that we have a little how-to guide in the form of an infographic called ‘Phone-Tography 101’
Slowly, surely and inevitably, our social media spaces are becoming commercialised. We all knew it was coming – it’s just a matter of coming to terms with it, getting used to the new layout and trying to make the best of it. This time, it’s Instagram’s turn to start earning some cold hard cash.
Woah! Instagram just got serious. No more selfies. No more sunsets – we’re talking guns baby. Instagram has made no official rule outlawing the sale of guns on their platform, so guy buyers or sellers can just scroll away on their smartphones, and they might as well be in Steve Hofmeyr’s basement.
#NoFilter – usually a hashtag that inspires hatred towards the poster (“What, are we supposed to clap because you took a photo and then did nothing with it and then showed it to us?”). In this case though, that simple hashtag was enough to get Kanye West home, immediately.
Cats have been ousted as the most popular animal on social media for the minute, and have been replaced by a 6-month old pig named ‘Jamon’ from São Paulo, Brazil. The pigs owner is a bit of a funny one, often dressing his pig up as a turtle. (What?)
At just over five minutes in length, ‘Take Us To Jozi’ is a short documentary about a handful of Johannesburg Instagramers, and their take on the culture of Instagram in South Africa. The documentary features the likes of @roywrench, @unclescrooch, and @garethpon, who made the documentary.
Former US President George W. Bush is on Instagram. Of course he is. He joined a couple weeks ago and here’s something else you probably didn’t know, he has a cat named Bob.
If you haven’t had lunch yet, don’t read this. It will make you hungry and envious of the people who get to eat the food featured on all of these deliciously delectable looking Instagram accounts. Check out these divine looking pictures of food, and find out how you can follow these photographers on Instagram!
The new Chief Operating Officer of Instagram is Emily White and surprise, surprise, she worked for Google – before moving on to Facebook, before moving on to Facebook’s new acquisition, Instagram. Here’s her plan to sell advertising within the next year.
Here’s how not to deal with a crazy girlfriend: Film the two of you fighting and post it to Vine.
This hotel is decorated with guest-shot Instagram photos and there’s even a space for you to take a selfie when you check in. At the entrance they have a revolving digital mural of Instagram photos and, if you have over 100,000 followers, you get a free night’s stay!
An American Instagrammer has been booted off of the photo sharing service for “violating Instagram’s community guidelines”. Amy Woodruff (the owner of the Daughter of the Sun Instagram account) practises yoga, and lives in a teepee with her family in the wilds of Hawaii Click through for the pic.
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is on Instagram, and he wants everyone to know what he’s been up to. The shots he’s posted so far show the President and his wife doing charitable work, feeding the hungry, embracing children, and being swarmed by loving crowds.
Spam botnets, such as the infamous ‘Zeus’ that came to light in 2007, have infiltrated Instagram, and are being put to task generating false ‘likes’ and ‘followers’ in order to create media buzz over particular companies or individuals on the platform for eventual financial gain.
The man responsible for Facebook chat, News Feeds and the layout of Facebook as you know it is taking his creative “genius” to Instagram. Star product manager, Peter Deng, has joined Instagram as its first director of product, and sees a lot of the same issues with Instagram that Facebook experienced in 2007.
This Japanese photographer has found a cure for male singletons out there. Who needs a girlfriend when you have your right hand, enjoy Keisuke Jinushi’s selfies.
You may recall that Beyonce’s tresses were caught in a fan while she was performing not so long ago. There’s no word on whether that incident prompted her latest style adjustment.
“They have more money than you and this is what they do.” So obviously there’s a lion on the roof of a Ferrari over there. The Rich Kids Of Instagram tumblog rose to prominence around 18 months ago, and every day since, they have dutifully published real-life Instagrams of young people spending/enjoying money that they did not earn.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been getting up to some interesting things on Instagram. So what is Schmidt getting up to on the photo sharing platform?
Basketball star LeBron “The King” James entertained some of his fans on Instagram on Tuesday with some light rapping. The audio clips have received over 54,000 and 62,000 likes respectively.
While vacationing in the Bahamas, Heidi Klum and family enjoyed some fun in the sun. But it was the Instagram picture that she uploaded of her behind that has grabbed everybody’s attention.
This infographic has been compiled by Saxum and contains statistics for 10 of the popular social networking sites. This infographic opens your eyes to all the things that happening on social media sites.
Every move the United States president Barack Obama has made has been documented by all. On Twitter and Instagram, Obama is the favourite to get a few pioctures of.
Justin Bieber has quite the following on photo-sharing network Instagram, but what about the hidden gems out there that have used it as a platform to showcase their talent and exactly what the app can do? If you’re on Instagram or in the photo industry and you haven’t heard of Craig Howes, now is the […]
On Wednesday the White House was said to be “embracing new filters”, those from Instagram. The new Instagram account will provide insight into the life of the US president while on his trip to Africa.
And the moment you’ve all been waiting for is here. This is the “how to” guide to creating a hipster-esque Instagram video. Mashable has brought us step-by-step instructions to using the new Instagram 4.0 feature that is set to wipe out Vine and other annoying social media in the near future. Once you’ve installed and upgraded […]
The creative duo of Paul B. Cummings and Eriq Wities (those are actual names) has created this whimsical stop motion animation of one man’s dismally failed mission to the beach. The pair shot just under 1,600 ‘grams, which they posted to their feed (possible follower exhaustion alert). They animated the shots over the course of three […]
TechCrunch, (the reliable source of anything you want to know on the Tech/Sci front) has announced that, according to a trusted source, Instagram will have a video feature come Thursday. Facebook is rumoured to reveal this new product that will enable Instagrammers to record and share videos across social networks whilst giving Vine a run […]