Socialcam hits 2M downloads and gets cool live vintage video filters for iPhone

Socialcam is today announced that it has reached a 2m download milestone in the last 6 months of its existence. It is also releasing version 3.0 of its popular video shooting and sharing app which brings a series of filters that you can apply to it, much in the way that Instagram works for photos. It ‘s not the first app to do this, of course, but it is one of the only free apps that does it and allows you to shoot and share any video you want, regardless of length....

3 min · 622 words · Julian Brock

Socialcam launches. We dig in to see if it’s worth all of the hype.

With social photo sharing apps being all the rage lately, it’s no wonder thatSocialcamhas been so heavily talked about. Viral live video site Justin.tv has developed Socialcam to fill that void of social video sharing via mobile devices and, at first blush, things look to be very good. Socialcam is an app for yourAndroidoriOSdevice that lets you easily and quickly record video, then keep it within the Socialcam system or share it to yourFacebookfriends....

3 min · 431 words · Steve Nguyen

SocialCam will only settle for replacing your video camera

The video sharing app market is exploding right now. Partially as a result of cameras getting better in integrated devices like iPhones and Android devices and, as Justin.TV’s Micheal Seibel pointed out to me, thepuzzlingclosure of casual camcorder company Flip. People are turning to their phones to shoot video more than ever before. SocialCam was designed specifically to cater to those people that use their smartphones like a camcorder. The app is simple and minimally featured for now, aimed at replacing the camera app entirely for shooting video....

4 min · 784 words · Cassandra Hendricks

SocialFolders is like Dropbox for your data from Facebook, Flickr, Google Docs and more [Invites]

SocialFoldersis the brainchild of Philippe Honigman, the CEO offtopia, a Paris-based secure file sharing service for businesses. Based on the same technology as ftopia, SocialFolders is a free offering which allows you to back up content from your social networks, photo sharing and cloud storage services onto your computer. But that’s not all SocialFolders offers. SocialFolders sets itself apart from other similar apps by going much further than just backing up your online accounts....

3 min · 609 words · Alexandra Marshall

SocialGrapple gives you insights on your Twitter competition.

How do you monitor on Twitter who stopped following you and started to follow a competitor? What would be the fastest way to compare how many Twitter followers you share with another Twitter account? Both answers and more can be found usingSocial Grapple. The site is still in early development and was built byAndrey Petrov. Petrov previously built another Twitter service calledTweetspectwhere the idea for Social Grapple was originally devloped....

3 min · 610 words · Linda Buckley
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