Category: instagram

Instagram to have messaging functionality

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There’s been a rumor circulating around the web recently regarding Instagram and the company’s alleged plan of adding messaging feature to the popular photo/video sharing platform.

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According to a “well-placed source” that fessed up to GIGAOM, Instagram will gain a slew of additional functionalities on the upcoming update including group and private messaging.

The exact date of the said upgrade is still uncertain, but the informant claims that it will be rolled out before the end of this year.

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Instagram will have ads, soon!

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According to a Wall Street Journal report, the popular photo-sharing app Instagram will soon be monetize. How? By selling ads of course.


Ever since Instagram started as an iOS-only application back in 2010, it never had ads popping out suddenly while browsing or tried to persuade you to purchase anything to use it. That didn’t changed when it was ported to Android even it had more users than before. Instagram currently has more than 150 million of active users each month. That is 128 million more since Facebook acquired the popular photo-sharing app in April 2012. With that, they are now planning how to implement ads and it will roll out within the next year.

How will the ads be implemented? Emily White, Director of Business Operations of Instagram, and her team are focusing on the app’s Explore tab that promotes popular content and also the search function that allows users to discover images and tags. Ms White also stated that some retailers also are keen in ad products that will allow users to click on images of products that link to a retailer’s own site but this will have to undergo such study because mobile sites still needs polishing.

On a local setting, some prominent product placements are already in Instragram through the ever popular hashtags. Even celebrities uses certain hashtags for their fans to use in order to be featured. Hashtags in Instagram works the same way as Twitter and even Facebook, except that Twitter ranks the popular hashtags into trends.

Let’s hope that monetizing Instagram won’t ruin the simple and clean experience that made it popular. What are your thoughts on this? Maybe you have better ideas on how to implement the ads? Comment your thoughts below.

On a side note, maybe they should work on Instagram for Windows Phone before this.

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Instagram will share your info with Facebook

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Facebook’s recent acquisition of Instagram has led to the revision of the photo-sharing service’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service which now allows Instagram to share some of your information and contents with Facebook and its other subsidiaries.

The need to revise their previous TOU and Privacy policy was explained on a recent entrywhich was posted on their official blog site.

Our updated privacy policy helps Instagram function more easily as part of Facebook by being able to share info between the two groups. This means we can do things like fight spam more effectively, detect system and reliability problems more quickly, and build better features for everyone by understanding how Instagram is used.

Some of the things that Instagram will be sharing to Facebook are explained in a clause under the Sharing of your Information of their updated Privacy Policy. To save you the trouble of looking that up, here’s what it says there:

We may share User Content and your information (including but not limited to, information from cookies, log files, device identifiers, location data, and usage data) with businesses that are legally part of the same group of companies that Instagram is part of, or that become part of that group (“Affiliates”). Affiliates may use this information to help provide, understand, and improve the Service (including by providing analytics) and Affiliates’ own services (including by providing you with better and more relevant experiences). But these Affiliates will honor the choices you make about who can see your photos.

Other than these minor revisions to Instagram’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, everything else is pretty much the same including your right to your images and the people you chose to see them. These changes will take effect starting on January 16 2013.

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Having fun with Instagram

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Am quite the late bloomer to Instagram. Whereas others have hundreds of photos already, I only have something like 59.I have to admit: Pinterest came first but right now, am just so loving IG already! First reason: the celebrities are here _ from Rachel Zoe to Ruffa Gutierrez to Kris Aquino. I get to know what rocks their world and at times, they take pictures of most mundane objects and I don’t care. Am still star-struck :)

Second reason: the different shooting modes make me feel like am a better photographer. No kidding, this app is brilliant because it works like a digicam, and more! Even if I take a crappy photo, when I use Hudson, Lo-Fi , Valencia or any of the effects that apply digital filter, the photo is transformed. Just take a look at this one taken inside my (unoccupied) apartment. I just wanted to take a photo of the DREAM word in wood which I got for only 98 pesos in one of my shopping trips.I loved how Instagram made it all so dramatic..pang Pinterest ang dating ;)

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So yes, when I now see objects that I like, am always compelled to take a photo for Instagram. Another favorite subject is my youngest daughter Lucia. She’s now in that stage where am seeing a lot of milestones.

Here’s some trivial things I uploaded on IG recently.

Unique Adidas shoe models which I saw in Greenbelt. If I was younger, I’d take the one with the wings

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Monster cake at Tous Les Jours, post-Halloween

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A chic bag made from soda can covers seen at SM’s Kultura Filipino

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Sofa with keyboard design, anyone?

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Find Instagram on your Android phone via the Google Play Store or Apple gadgets (iPhone, iPad, Ipod)

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