Social Networking

Instagram, now barely a bit over a year old, has over 10 million users who had posted more than 150 million photos as of August 2011. That number is probably well over 200 million now. Instagram’s photo filters help make ordinary photos interesting and really good photos spectacular. But, is your Instagram-ed filtered photo good [...]

We started off the holiday season in the U.S. with one of more social of holidays yesterday – Thanksgiving. If you’re looking for one more social outlet, there’s a new free game that seems to have impressed the people providing customer ratings in the iTunes App Store. The free iPhone game Lil’ Birds by Villain [...]

Oink for iPhone rates indidvidual things in places rather than the the entire place itself. It probably got equal amounts of attention from its somewhat unique take on social ratings as it did from its famous company founder, Kevin Rose of Digg fame. It was interesting but not very useful when I took a look [...]

Flipboard, the popular and useful social news curation app for the iPad, inspired a number of competitors in that app space. Back in April of this year, I took a look at one of these news aggregation apps and wrote… Hitpad for iPad: Lickable Graphical News Interface – Needs Social News Feed Curation. I went [...]

There’s no shortage of phones with a dedicated Facebook button. The Vodafone 555 Blue is a low-cost feature phone with a Facebook button. The HTC Status is an Android OS 2.3 phone with a Facebook button. However, All Things D’s Liz Gannes and Ina Fried are running a series of articles this week about what [...]

comScore’s data indicates that as of September 2011, 23.5% of mobile users in the European Union accessed social network sites. And, 46.8% of this group used a social network service daily. These daily users grew signifcantly over the two measurement periods a year apart. The audience using social networking sites daily from a mobile phone [...]

You know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. How about Small Business Saturday? That’s what Foursquare and American Express are promoting this coming Saturday, November 26. What’s in it for you? Perhaps $25 credited back to your card.

Kodak Gallery added several new features in an update to its free Gallery app for the iPhone. The most important of the new features is the ability for multiple poeple to upload and contribute to a single shared online album. This new feature is called Group Albums

The Flipboard (for iPad) 1.6 update introduces three new features that lets an iPad be shared and to bring in content from Tumblr and 500px.
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TechCrunch notes that people who buy phones and tablets based on Android OS 4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich) are asked to join Google+ and enter a valid credit card as part of the new system configuration process. So, what does this mean for the Google+ social network and Google’s bottom line?