Google+ users will now be able to search through their photos more easily, thanks to an update that Google rolled out today that connects the social layer to the search bar and enhances the process with a new technology that recognizes pictures by their contents instead of their captions or tags.
We're kicking off our upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp with a special keynote presentation by Ella Chick (left), the digital producer at Anderson Cooper 360°. She'll discuss how the network uses social media for breaking news and leverages social media to draw attention to organizations and causes. Learn more about our program and register here. 
If a geek wearing Google Glass winks at you, he might also be snapping a picture for posterity, according to code unearthed by a developer using the Reddit user name Fodawin. The code indicates that the eyeglass-shaped computer may soon support integrate gestural controls, including allowing users to take a photograph by simply winking.
Tumblr has turned on a feature that allows users to post self-shot photos of themselves from their browsers.
Earlier this week, Google+ quietly started supporting uploads of full-resolution photos from desktop computers in addition to Android smartphones.
These days there are so many ways to share your photos and videos—via email, on Facebook, on photo-sharing sites like Flickr and Picasa—but none are truly ideal for sharing photos privately with your family. Familio aims to solve this problem with a new app for Android, iOS and the web that makes it easy to share family photos and videos in a safe, private environment.
An infographic from Chute sheds some light on why social networks are battling over photo uploads, filters and displays: Photos are the dominant content on the sites.
Bing is continuing to improve on its specialized search engine for Facebook photos, gussying up the feature’s user interface and supporting a slideshow view.
Google will begin displaying images in a bar across the top of the screen, with a larger version of the selected image and its accompanying metadata in the center, the company said today.
Nonprofit developers have released a prototype app that helps users determine whether photos and videos are real or the work of hoaxsters.
When you look back on 2012, what will be the things you remember most? If you spend as much time on the Internet as we do, it won’t be the world events, politics, or natural disasters that will stand out in your mind…it will be “Teh Interwebz” reaction to them and the memes that resulted. To that end, we’ve compiled a list of 20 of the most viral memes of 2012. Enjoy!
