The new Latin-American restaurant Comodo uses Instagram as a promotional tool. By putting #ComodoMenu on the bottom of their menus, they encourage diners to take photos of their food. The growing number of customer pictures creates an online “virtual menu” for the NY restaurant. Media Bistro [Full Story…]
#Instagramnyc Flashes in Popularity
October 3, 2012 at 2:49 pm
Instagram NYC is quickly becoming one of the city’s hottest meetups. Brian DiFeo created the group less than two years ago to explore and develop the myriad ways of taking photos with the app. About 200 to 300 members regularly attend events. The group holds panel discussions, scavenger hunts and [Full Story…]
Instagram Live Feed Maps NY Content
August 6, 2012 at 9:35 am
Australian Firm Lexical Gap built a live feed of every Instagram shot that was geo-tagged in New York City limits, a project dubbed This is Now. The feed is a unique look into city-specific Instagram content streams and has photos of everything from food to architecture. BuzzFeed [Full Story…]
Startup Tripl Puts Social Into Travel Planning
July 10, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Tripl, the New York start-up which is part of the latest DreamIt Ventures’ accelerator class has built a personalized filtering service that integrates friends’ Facebook and Foursquare feeds and organizes their travel data into stories on a timeline. With its new refocused social effort, their [Full Story…]
Social Oriented Fab.com Rolls Out Fab 3.0
May 18, 2012 at 1:33 pm
This week, NY-based Fab.com, a daily deals site focused on design-oriented sales, launched a redesigned Fab 3.0 site. The revamped site offers new social shopping features, Facebook integration and a filter for products. Individual items show the number of shares and prices on Twitter, Facebook [Full Story…]
What Does the Future Hold for Foursquare? #4sqDay
April 16, 2012 at 2:14 pm
As today is officially considered "4sqDay" by it users, Foursquare announced that it now has 20 million of them, accounting for 2 billion check-ins, according to The Next Web. Questions regarding the startup's longevity, however, have arisen as Business Insider indicates that Foursquare is no [Full Story…]
Mobli Subscriptions Soar Post-Instagram Buyout
April 12, 2012 at 5:02 pm
NY startup Mobli, a photo and video sharing app, has been capitalizing on the success of Facebook's recent acquisition of Instagram. While Instagram jumped to the number one spot on the iPhone's free download list, Mobli's downloads have increased by about 550 percent in the past 24 hours, now [Full Story…]
NY Announces Facebook Photo Contest: #loveNYC
March 23, 2012 at 1:05 pm
NY is launching its first ever Facebook photo contest. The winning image of the #loveNYC contest will be displayed on a giant Spectacolor HD screen in Times Squares. From now until April 6, anyone can submit photos of what they love most about the Big Apple. Photographers can use Instagram or [Full Story…]
WSJ Sends Reporters to Cover #NYFW via Pinterest
February 13, 2012 at 9:31 am
The Wall Street Journal is using Pinterest to cover NY Fashion Week, sending nine reporters with iPhones and Instagram accounts to file constantly. The best images will be featured on Pinterest and posted to the paper’s Fashion Week section on their website. The Journal’s Fashion Week [Full Story…]
#NYFW – Thre.ad Raising Debt Round
February 9, 2012 at 12:21 pm
NY-based startup Thre.ad is raising a $760,000 debt round. According to BetaBeat, its SEC Form D didn't disclose the company's revenue but indicates they've already sold $560,000 in debt. The social network company allows users to share street styles through “threads” of photos. Mimi Nguyen, [Full Story…]
WNBC NY and Instagr.am Partner to Share Photos
December 19, 2011 at 9:41 am
WNBC has partnered up with Instagr.am to invite users to snap photos and "send" them in to use on-air and online and will be implemented on NY affiliate WNBC Channel 4. This latest venture asks users to take pictures of holiday lights and upload them with a special localized hashtag so NBC [Full Story…]
#NYTM Part 1: A Very Social Holiday with Bubbles, Pixels and Crowds
December 1, 2011 at 11:03 am
By Lauren Keyson A lively mix of presentations at the New York Tech Meetup earlier this week included 13 startups that all found unique ways to address their pain points, as most of the presenters came up with their ideas simply by not being able to do something they wanted to do or were missing [Full Story…]
Fashion Week Attendees Use Popular iPhone App Instagram #NYFW
September 14, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Instagram, the free iPhone app that filters camera-pictures has made its way into NY Fashion Week, in and out of the tents. Images of the runway, backstage and taken from Oscar de la Renta's account, the fashion are obsessed with the filters available for Instagram. Though only available for the [Full Story…]
NY to Host Biggest Photo Hackathon Ever
August 11, 2011 at 11:03 am
According to the NY Egotist, the NY company Aviary will be hosting the biggest photo hackathon ever. Aviary is a hub of web-based image editors and the hackathon will allow companies to present details about their photo-based APIs to developers. Some of the companies that will be be involved in [Full Story…]
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