Whilst browsing the ‘Popular Photos’ onInstagraman uber successful photo-sharing mobile app, it occurred to me that it would be nice to know how its current Popular Photos compared to that of its main competitorPicplz’s‘Interesting Photos’. Picplz photos are accessible through its website which makes browsing and sharing photos easy from a computer. It’s current set of Interesting Photos appear to be more extensive at first glance. However Instagram’s Popular Photos refreshes more often which provides roughly the same number of images to select from....

Facebook may technically have more users than any other social media platform, but that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily the most popular. Now it looks likesomeoneat Facebook is at least a little jealous of Instagram’s success. At least, that’s what a new test hitting the Instagram app suggests. As noted byEngadget, Instagram is testing a blurb at the top of users’ feeds that reminds them of features that are only available on Facebook....

The popular photo sharing app Instagram has received an update to version 1.7. The release brings a redesigned profile page and more options for notifications. The latter is especially welcome for those with a lot of followers on Instagram as the sheer volume of popups made it annoying to receive notifications at all. The profile page has gotten a nice revamp with the added ability to view your photos in thumbnail form or the standard list form....

Instagram has updated their super popular photo sharing app to include the ability to double-tap a photo to like it, autocomplete usernames and a new interactive comment screen. The new ‘double-tap to like’ feature works as expected. Instead of hunting for the tiny ‘Like’ icon you can now simply double-tap any image in your feed to show that you like it. A small heart will pop up confirming your like....

Instagram, one of the most popular mobile photo-sharing apps, reportedly hit1 million iPhone downloadsearlier this month. The Pepsi to Instagram’s Coke, isPicplz. Both startups were funded by Andreessen-Horowitz. Picplz is currently not as popular with reports of reaching 200,000 downloads. Here I’m going to discuss which of the two I’d recommend you use. I have been using another photo sharing app calledTreehouseto share my photos with a select group of friends and cross posting (the less embarrassing photos) to Facebook and Twitter....