A few weeks ago I wrote a very final piece on Flickr & 500px and just this week an update on the controversy surrounding Instagram’s new Terms of Service. Instagram’s Ongoing Implosion Well, the drama keeps unfolding. While Instagram (and parent Facebook), have backed away from their creative property grab, doubts still remain in many [...] Read full article
InstaMeltDown
It’s been a tumultuous 48 hours or so for users of the popular mobile photography platform Instagram. Recent changes to the platform’s Terms of Use have created a firestorm of comment on line. Plenty of articles have emerged advising users how to save their images and delete their Instagram accounts, with most of the furore [...] Read full article
Democratising Photography
Instagram is one of many mobile applications for sharing photos. But, because of it’s popularity, high profile sale to Facebook and deliberately retro and hispter-ish design, Instagram has become a touchstone for arguments about the so-called “democratisation of photography.” This debate typically involves the usual “dumbing down” arguments about the role of social media in [...] Read full article
Did Instagram Just MySpace Itself?
The internet is aflutter with the news that mobile, social photography platform, Instagram was just sold to Facebook for U$1 Billion. Within months of seeing Kodak, the icon of the film era, go bankrupt, we now have a start-up built around mobile photography (and vintage nostalgia) realising huge profits. What This Means For The Industry [...] Read full article
iPhoneography (or is it Smartphoneogaphy?)
As a change of pace, today’s blogpost is actually an audio interview. Hong Kong entrepreneur, Casey Lau hosted an event tonight for Social Media Week, looking at the rise of mobile and social photography. Since I can’t be there, I took the opportunity to interview tonight’s panelists, Rita S. (@mochachocolata), Tyson Wheatley (@Twheat), Lester Lim, [...] Read full article