Instagram has earned the love of nearly five million iPhone users who have long craved simplicity in a photo app. Now, the company has added new features, such as hashtag auto-complete and text and URL fields for user bios, which will move the photo-sharing experience from simple and casual to a bit more involved. You know, like using the L-word in a relationship. READ MORE
Monday through Wednesday in New York City TechCrunch is holding its Disrupt Battlefield competition in which hopeful founders and entrepreneurs submit their young, unseen start-up companies for the opportunity to try winning the $50,000 prize while launching in front of an all-star panel made up of innovators, angel investors, venture capitalists and tech influencers. Monday featured three Battlefields: Disrupting Commerce, Disrupting Location and Disrupting Search and Discovery. These start-ups made presentations in the Disrupting Search and Discovery category: READ MORE
Three things set an Internet company above the rest: photo sharing, immediate and unexpected sense of value and familiar usability features writes tech investor Alex Taussig, a principal at Highland Capital Partners. He suggests that Facebook wouldn’t be Facebook without photo sharing, which he calls “the most ego-expressive form of media,” and mentions other sites and apps cropping up that play into that, such as Instagram, Picplz, Pixable, Path, and Color. READ MORE
Ex-Googlers are known for creating internet start-ups. Former Googler Dennis Crowley sold Dodgeball to Google and then started Foursquare. Evan Williams sold his company Blogger to Google and co-founded Twitter. Popular photo sharing application Instagram is brought to you by former Google employee Kevin Systrom. READ MORE
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