Instagram Launches Embeddable “Badges” To Help You Promote Your Beautiful Profile On The Web

8154296161_2f7ef3ec63_zInstagram is definitely not taking its foot off of the gas, even after being acquired successfully by Facebook. Today, the team is introducing a widget to help you spread the word about all of your great random Instagram photos, wherever you live on the web.

Since Instagram launched its web profiles, the thoughts of what Instagram could expand to past mobile has been a topic of heavy conversation amongst tech pundits and users alike. Today, you’ll be able to embed a “badge” on your website or blog, which leads back to your Instagram profile on the web, which as we noted is beautifully designed and easy to navigate and interact with.

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Instagram Announces Web Profiles & What This Means for Marketers

Instagram announced yesterday that they are rolling out profile pages on the web within the next week or so. When launched, you will be able to view your profile by typing instagram.com/YourUserName in your browser’s address bar. From a design standpoint, profile pages will feature a selection of your recently taken photos arranged in a collage above […]

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800K #Sandy-grams Showed Systrom Instagram Is “Going To Need To Be A Big Data Company”

Systrom800,000 Instagrams were tagged [Hurricane] #Sandy, and Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom thinks that makes it the most digitally captured event in history. But “how do we mine all these photos, make sense of them so you can consume the most interesting photos about Sandy?” he asked today at GigaOm’s RoadMap conference. His conclusion was “We’re going to need to be a big data company.”

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13 Nights to a Better Social Media Strategy

Every year, beginning in the second week of October, ABC Family begins airing its 13 Nights of Halloween, a programming special in which movies eerie, comical, iconic, and spooky alike descend upon the ABC Family channel, encouraging both young and old to indulge their inner scary-movie freak and get in the spirit of the holiday […]

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InstaSale: Chirpify Takes Its In-Stream Commerce Service To Instagram As Its Twitter Service Continues To Fly

chirpify logoChirpify, the social commerce platform that launched six months ago as the only in-stream way to make purchases on Twitter, is now starting to spread its wings: today the company is announcing that it has integrated with Instagram, the photo sharing service owned by Facebook. The move means that people who have signed up to Chirpify’s service, and entered their PayPal and shipping details, can go to any items that are being sold via Instagram — tagged with #instasale — and enter the word “buy” in the comments for an instant transaction to take place.

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The Photo-Sharing Wars Aren’t Over Yet. Snapchat And Cinemagram Are Quietly Blowing Up.

photo-chart-rankingWhen Instagram’s roughly $750 million sale to Facebook closed, it seemed that the photo-sharing chapter in mobile app history closed. Instagram had definitively won, while many startups like Mixed Media Labs’ Picplz and Path either pivoted or completely redid their apps. But if you look at the top charts today, maybe this race isn’t so finished. In fact, there are a couple of younger photo-sharing apps that have quietly blown up over the last month or two.

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If Instagram Were More About Words Than Things, You’d Have Whims for iOS

Snapshot 10:12:12 2:49 PMInstagram is huge because it’s a network made of people who are passionate about taking pictures of things that they see and then dropping a cool filter on them to enhance their vision. It caught on immediately with everyone from geeks to Starbucks baristas. Since then, many companies have tried to duplicate the magic that Instagram used to sell itself to Facebook, but have failed.

Today, an app called Whims is trying something completely different, but extremely familiar. The social network iOS app lets you express yourself with words, colors and fonts only. There’s no pictures, there’s no videos…just you and your thoughts.

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Busting Commonly Held Social Media and Email Marketing Myths

Yesterday morning, while perusing Twitter, I came across this tweet on my timeline: This statistic, which signifies the power, popularity, and prevalence of Facebook, surprised me. Of course, Facebook has become a societal symbol, an icon of the current zeitgeist. Spawned by an undoubtedly brilliant yet somewhat enigmatic college student, it has an alluring, almost […]

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