Vine – the crappiest app I can’t help but love

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Earlier this week, or maybe it was late last week, Twitter released a smashing new service called Vine. The simplest possible value proposition – Instagram for video. Or possibly “GIFs for the rest of us”. Mmmmmmm vine.co/v/bJV67bFbjia — Swizec (@Swizec) January 30, 2013 I can’t quite decide which it is. All I know is that… Read more »

19 months from launch to $1,000,000,000 acquisition: Instagram

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On October 5th, 2010, Instagram launched We’re really excited to launch our first version of Instagram today, free in the App Store. Instagram makes mobile photos fast, simple, & beautiful. When we sat down three months ago to start designing our product, we looked at digital photos and realized very few exciting things had happened in the… Read more »