Today, CBS Television Studios announced it will use Instagram,my favorite photo sharing app, to promote its showNCIS: Los Angeles. Fans will be able to follow the show on Instagram for behind-the-scenes shots by the cast, including infamous rapper turned actor LL Cool J. The marketing campaign includes a national photography competition called “Flaunt Your City.” For the competition users are encouraged to share their favorite hometown photos. The campaign begins today, Thursday, March 10th, and runs through Friday, April 1 at 6:00 PM, PT....

In a world of digital products and services, the true test to know when your offering has really made it is if it gets a clone of its very own. We’ve seen them before, China already has its ownTumblr,LinkedInandFacebookclones, so it won’t surprise you to learn that popular photo sharing iPhone applicationInstagramhas been given the Chinese cloning treatment and is ready to download, for free, on the App Store. NamedLomoKR(or Magic Music Library if you believe the translation), the service is remarkably similar to that of its western counterpart, providing a photo sharing social network for users, complete with Instragram-style buttons and 10 oh-so-similar filters to transform shots into pieces of art....

We first wroteaboutFollowgram.mewhen it came on the scene as the hot new Instagram third party app last month. Followgram offers users a vanity URL, which is a cool way to advertise your Instagram account online. The site also provides users with a HTML code for an embeddable “Follow me on Instagram” button to place on a personal site, Tumblr, etc. The Italian developers behind Followgram cooked up this snazzy infographic, which tells the Instagram story from its 100,000 download days to itsrecent announcementof over 150 million photos uploaded....

How much do you love Instagram’s filters? Probably not as much as this guy: Instagram HeroDaniel Boxrecently searched to see if anyone had “converted” Instagram filters to photoshop actions. After not finding any results, he decided to see if he could do it himself. And while he didn’t get a 100% exact match, he got pretty damn close. He started with “Nashville”, followed by “Earlybird” with auto-cropping tools, then “Brannan”, “X Pro II”, then Sutro, Lomo-fi, Inkwell, Lord Kelvin and Walden were added....

Instagram, the darling of iPhone photo apps, has officially hit over 150 million photos uploaded since its launch 9 months ago. According to Instagram, its 7 million users worldwide are uploading 1.3 million photos every single day – that’s 15 photos per second. And out of those 150 million, 80% are filtered. “To say that we’re excited and humbled by the initial success of Instagram would be an understatement. Although this milestone marks a significant accomplishment of our team of 4 folks so far, I believe it marks the beginning of what’s to come....