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Daily Fast Feed Roundup
Hello Tumblr! Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know today:
- A million Samsung phone users are about to get Jay-Z’s new album three days early and for free! Those lucky ducks.
- Google is combatting child porn with a number of measures including a new image identification system.
- Police in 26 states are using facial recognition technology to fight crime.
- Netflix is happy right now. The video streaming service is hooking up with DreamWorks for its biggest partnership to date.
- This week, a group of homing pigeons will tweet their way across Europe using tiny digital backpacks.
- Word on the street is that Facebook is going to reveal a video functionality for Instagram. But that may not be a great idea…
- Today the Supreme Court made some big decisions pertaining to an Arizona voter registration law and a drug patent case.
- More from our NSA secret surveillance tracker: Edward Snowden says, “I did not reveal any U.S. operations against legitimate military targets.”
- Now you can use Skype’s video messaging app on your computer, iPhone, or Android device.
Have a great week! —M. Cecelia Bittner and Jessica Hullinger
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From rooftop bashes and acquisition talks to staff clashes and layoffs, Hipstamatic’s founders and ex-employees describe the startup’s losing struggle to keep pace with Instagram, Facebook, and others in the white-hot photo-sharing space. Read the three-part series from start to finish.
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Instagram’s co-founder Mike Krieger lifted the curtain on three of their backend (and UI) tricks that give the Instagram user a feeling of responsiveness, even when someone’s phone is trapped on a lousy connection. The ideas aren’t just clever; they’re so logical that you don’t need to be a coder to appreciate them. Read on->
Are there any other app icons that have been made into real objects? Angry Birds plushy toys and…
I’m not quite sure how I fell about this. I mean, I’m an avid user of instagram and all, but I don’t think it’s necessary to make a camera specifically for the purpose of making “instagram” style photos. What’s wrong with the way it’s being down already on a phone.,And let’s not forget you could just use a REAL vintage camera. And yes I know this is only a concept.
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Hipstamatic is set to unveil a partnership with Instagram that allows photos taken on the camera app, which enables users to snap professional-looking pictures with stylized films and vintage-era lenses, to be ported directly into Instagram’s network with just one click. It represents the first time Instagram has opened up this platform API to third parties, and marks a move toward letting photos freely flow into Instagram’s network from outside sources.
“When we launched, it was all about Facebook and Flickr and Twitter, and now we’re seeing a huge shift in our user base toward Instagram,” says Hipstamatic cofounder and CEO Lucas Buick. “We’ve never been a social networking company, but we clearly benefit from social networks. So this will be the first app outside of Instagram that lets you into their network. That’s pretty cool for us.”
