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| Jul 27, 2012 | The Twitter Rebellion: App.net Offers a Hacker’s Alternative | Twitter is looking into making TV shows. That direction would have been unimaginable four years ago. But the Flock has made its nest. Twitter is a media goose that wants to lay a golden egg. And entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell doesn’t believe ... |
| Jun 3, 2012 | Instagram competitor PicPlz shutting down | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Early Instagram competitor PicPlz has notified its users that the service will be shutting down indefinitely within a month.
The site m... |
| Jun 3, 2012 | Photo sharing app PicPlz is shutting down in July | Early Instagram competitor could never catch up in users or funding
After Facebook purchased Instagram, it became clear that Instagram was going to become the king of photo sharing apps and it was only a matter of time before others started... |
| Jun 2, 2012 | The Instagram Effect? Mobile Photo Sharing App PicPlz To Shut Down Permanently On July 3 | PicPlz, the mobile photo sharing app that is perhaps known best for being an early and direct competitor with Instagram, will shut down permanently on July 3.
PicPlz delivered the news through a short post on its company blog as well as in ... |
| Apr 18, 2012 | Dylan’s Desk: When a $100M return on investment looks like a big mistake | Andreessen Horowitz realized a terrific return on its investment in Instagram, turning $500,000 into an estimated $100 million in about two years.
I’ve never made $100 million, let alone had $500,000 to invest, so I decided to turn that int... |
| Apr 15, 2012 | With Instagram snapped up, photo-sharing apps to watch | Photo-sharing apps that are worth keeping an eye on
Earlier this week, Facebook bought photo-sharing app Instagram for $1 billion, or a hefty $33 per user. What does this mean for other photo-sharing apps? It could mean they're valued a lot... |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Facebook Owns Instagram: You Got A Problem With That? | As previously reported, Facebook has purchased Instagram for $1 billion. The app is enormously popular, and being Facebook-owned will most likely make it even more so. Still, some users have a problem with the news, whether it be the expans... |
| Apr 9, 2012 | Right Before Acquisition, Instagram Closed $50M At A $500M Valuation From Sequoia, Thrive, Greylock And Benchmark | Welcome to the Monday where Facebook buys Instagram. Actually I’m as shocked as you are about this acquisition, namely because I was working on it as a funding story all morning. From what I’m hearing investors were shocked as well …
Becaus... |
| Oct 31, 2011 | PicPlz adds editing to its photo sharing apps, powered by Aviary | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Snap. Edit. Share. Now you’ll be able to edit pic... |
| Oct 31, 2011 | PicPlz adds editing to its photo sharing apps, powered by Aviary | Snap. Edit. Share. Now you’ll be able to edit pictures on PicPlz’s popular photo sharing apps, thanks to mobile photo editing technology from Aviary.
“It was a logical fit” to include Aviary’s editing tools, PicPlz CTO Jeff Argast told Vent... |
| Jul 13, 2011 | Post PicPlz, Mixed Media Labs Makes Their Big Bet: App.net — About.me For Apps | Last week, we reported that Mixed Media Labs had spun off their initial project, PicPlz, to be able to work on their next big idea. Well, now we know that next big idea: App.net.
The easiest way to think of App.net is as “About.me for apps”... |
| May 4, 2011 | Developers Can Add In-app Photo Effects With New Aviary API | Developers are always looking for a good API to hook their applications through to provide rich functionality to their applications. Photo editing company Aviary is releasing Aviary Effects API today to help developers add filters, effects ... |
| May 4, 2011 | Photobucket launches Snapbucket app to keep pace with more nimble rivals | Photo and video sharing service Photobucket launched a new feature today called Snapbucket, which will allow users to “snap” photos from their mobile device, personalize the photo through effects, vignettes and frames, and then share them i... |
| Apr 26, 2011 | 15 Years Of Photo Sharing Exits Vs. YouTube | The recent proliferation of early stage financing for photo-sharing startups like Path ($11.2 million), Picplz ($5 million), Instagram ($7.5M) and Color ($41 million) is leading some to speculate that we are in a crazy picture sharing bubbl... |
| Mar 11, 2011 | With Tilt-Shift And A News Feed, Instagram Is Ready To Rock SXSW | For all the talk of group messaging apps being the breakout hits at SXSW this year, most people are overlooking another genre: mobile photo-sharing apps. But that’s probably because a few of those apps already are pretty big hits. Take Inst... |
| Mar 10, 2011 | Picplz Adds Photo Collections And Borders | Social photo sharing app picplz is preparing to roll out an update to both its Android and iPhone apps that will add the ability to create collections of photos. The feature is already live on its Website. Under every photo, next to the lik... |
| Mar 1, 2011 | A Mobile Photo Sharing Casualty, Treehouse Hits The Deadpool; Founder Off To Google | In terms of hot spaces at the moment, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything hotter than the mobile photo sharing space. Instagram, PicPlz, and Path all have gotten huge amounts of funding recently. And the latter even turned down a massive... |
| Feb 24, 2011 | Instagram Unveils Realtime API With Foodspotting, Fancy, Momento, Flipboard, About.me And Others | It really is kind of amazing that Instagram has shot past two million users in just a few months with only an iPhone app. No Android app, no website, no real third-party support. But starting today, that changes as they’re finally ready to ... |
| Feb 14, 2011 | 3 Months To The First Million Users, Just 6 Weeks To The Second Million For Instagram | Back in late December of last year, we noted a huge milestone for photo-sharing app Instagram: a million users. As we noted at the time, remarkably, it took them only three months to hit the mark. That’s crazy when you consider it took Four... |
| Feb 14, 2011 | Cooliris Gets $9.6 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Others, Releases New Version Of LiveShare Photo Sharing App | Multimedia browser plugin Cooliris, which lets you view photo and video content on the web in a more visually appealing manner (screencap above), has snagged $9.6 million in Series C financing from investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufie... |
| Feb 7, 2011 | PicPlz Beats Instagram To An API | In the battle among the new crop of social photo apps, winning over the hearts if consumers is only one part of the equation. Winning over the minds of developers is the other part. While Instagram is far and away the early leader in terms ... |
| Feb 7, 2011 | Uh Oh, Instagram: PicPlz Launches API, Creative Commons & Brand Dashboards | The battle of the mobile social photo apps has been taken to the next level today, high-profile but trailing startup PicPlz just made three big announcements that pose a big challenge to crowd-pleaser Instagram and the slew of other startup... |
| Feb 7, 2011 | Path Finally Finds Its Way To Comments | In announcing their funding last week, Path co-founder Dave Morin noted that they were listening to all the feedback on the product and would be rolling out features that users have made clear they wanted. The biggest of those has to be com... |
| Feb 7, 2011 | Picplz’s new features aren’t a business model … yet | If you’ve been wondering how someone can turn a mobile photo application into a real company, well, the answer became a little clearer today with some new features from Picplz.
The company has announced an application programming interface ... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | Instagram Filters Through Suitors To Capture $7 Million In Funding Led By Benchmark | There have been few startups that have gotten as hot as quickly as Instagram. The photo-sharing application for the iPhone surged past 100,000 users less than a week after they first launched. In less than three months, they hit a million u... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | PicPlz Adds Dropbox Support To Preemptively Cure Filter Regret | We’ve all walked down the street and seen someone with a weird tattoo and thought, “they’re going to regret that later”. What may seem cool at the time, might not seem so cool years from now. Is it possible that the current crop of mobile p... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | PicPlz Pretties Up Android App And Begins Accepting (Beta) API Applications | Last week, we noted that mobile photo-sharing app PicPlz rolled out a bunch of improvements to their app in an effort to better compete with rival Instagram. Sadly, that new polish was only for their iPhone app at the time. But today brings... |
| Jan 16, 2011 | The Thin Wedge Of Quora | Editor’s note: Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. This is the second in a series of essays on Quora that he will post on TechCrunch. Shah is based in Palo Alto and... |
| Jan 13, 2011 | PicPlz Adds Speed, Polish As The Mobile Photo Wars Rage On | As many of you are well aware, I write about a photo sharing service, Instagram, quite a bit. In my opinion, they’ve hit the right combination of speed, utility, and fun within a mobile photo app. And while they’re growing fast, they’re har... |
| Jan 13, 2011 | Beyond The Filters: Brands Begin To Pour Into Instagram | What do NPR, NBC News, Playboy, Pepsi, CNN, Starbucks, Grammys, and David Blaine all have in common? They’ve all recently signed up for Instagram. Yes, the mobile photo sharing service. And there’s apparently a plan beyond simply sharing fi... |
| Jan 2, 2011 | Seven Technologies That Will Rock 2011 | So here we are in a new decade, and the technologies that are now available to us continue to engage (and enthrall) in fascinating ways. The rise and collision of several trends—social, mobile, touch computing, geo, cloud—keep spitting out ... |
| Dec 22, 2010 | Instagram hits 1M iPhone users in two months | Photo-sharing application for the iPhone rockets after lauching on Oct. 6
There are a lot of apps for the iPhone. So many, that you probably think that it is impossible to break in with a new one, and be successful. Well, one company has ju... |
| Dec 21, 2010 | Against All the Odds: Instagram Gets 1 Million Users in 10 Weeks | IPhone photo sharing application Instagram announced today that it has hit 1 million registered users, a mere 10 weeks after the app launched to the public. The company had all kinds of odds against it, yet here it is – fast growing and wid... |
| Dec 21, 2010 | Instagram Captures A Million Users. Up Next: API, Android, And Funding | It was exactly three months ago yesterday that I first wrote about Instagram. At the time, a number of people wondered why I devoted 1,000 words to a simple photo-sharing app that was only available on the iPhone and not even out yet. The a... |
| Dec 20, 2010 | Foursquare’s Holiday Gift to You | Mobile geolocation service Foursquare has announced new functionality – the ability to post both photos and comment via the application.
Foursquare members, which the company says now top 5 million, can now post comments on their friends' “... |
| Dec 20, 2010 | Amid Photo App Gold Rush, iPhone App Of The Year, Hipstamatic, Moves To San Francisco | Synthetic Corp, the company behind the hit iPhone app, Hipstamatic, has had a very good year. Not only was their paid app one of the best-selling apps of the year, Apple bestowed the “App of the Year” crown on it a few weeks ago. And now th... |
| Dec 20, 2010 | Foursquare Checks In Comments And Pictures; Instagram, PicPlz, Foodspotting On Board | Earlier this month, location-based service Gowalla went on the offensive against rival Foursquare — by linking up with them. Yes, they created a way for you to use Gowalla to check-in on Foursquare (and Facebook). Why would they do that? Be... |
| Dec 11, 2010 | The 5 Myths Of Building A Great Mobile Team | Editor’s note: As the Web goes mobile, every Web company needs to build mobile products. Author Elad Gil, director of Geo at Twitter, has a lot of experience in that area. Way before selling his company Mixer Labs to Twitter last year, he k... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | Photo app Picplz expands its social reach | The past few months have seen the launch of two hot San Francisco startups with mobile photo-sharing apps — Instagram and Picplz. Today, Picplz announced that it’s catching up with the competition on the social networking front, by adding s... |
| Nov 18, 2010 | Photo Sharing Is The Next Evolution Of Social (TCTV) | While photo sharing has always been a popular feature of social networks like Facebook and Myspace, we’ve recently seen an explosion of services that specifically revolve around sharing photos. In the past couple of months apps like Instagr... |
| Nov 17, 2010 | Looking for perfect event pic? CrowdOptic says: Look no further | A new smartphone app that allows marketers and event organizers to enlist the crowd in pinning down the best photos during an event is garnering a lot of attention from marquee-name companies, co-founder and chief executive Jon Fisher of Cr... |
| Nov 15, 2010 | Path launches photo-sharing social network focused on quality connections, not quantity | Path, a photo-sharing startup by former Facebook executive Dave Morin that launched today, is one of those companies that carries with it a tremendous amount of hype — due both to its pedigree and its secrecy.
We’ve been speculating for som... |
| Nov 14, 2010 | Path Takes Photo Sharing The Wrong Way | Buzzy stealthy startup Path, which was founded by ex-Facebooker Dave Morin and Shawn Fanning, finally launched its mobile app tonight. It is a private photo sharing iPhone app similar to Instagram or PicPlz, except that it makes sharing pho... |
| Nov 11, 2010 | Picplz Raises $5 Million | Picplz is a social photo sharing service that was founded by Imeem founders Dalton Caldwell and Bryan Berg. Picplz has raised $5 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz. Marc Andreessen will be joining the company board of directors as ... |
| Nov 11, 2010 | Picplz 1, Instagram 0 as VC firm Andreessen Horowitz chooses photo app rival | The popularity contest between competing smartphone photo manipulation apps Instagram and Picplz has been won by Picplz in one regard today, after early Instagram investor Andreessen Horowitz said it has decided to switch teams and pour $5 ... |
| Nov 11, 2010 | Andreessen Horowitz Isn't Hedging its Bets with Picplz and Instagram; It Has Picked Picplz | It’s a strict rule in the venture business that you don’t fund two direct competitors, for obvious reasons. There’s a massive difference between the valuation of the number one player in the market (think YouTube) and the number two player ... |
| Oct 20, 2010 | imeem Founder Dalton Caldwell's Must-See Talk On The Challenges Facing Music Startups | Last week at Y Combinator’s Startup School nearly a dozen of the Valley’s most seasoned entrepreneurs and investors came together to give advice to hundreds of people looking to launch or get involved with a startup. One of the standout tal... |
| Oct 13, 2010 | Picplz Launches Revamped Mobile Apps For iPhone And Android (With Free Effects) | Over the last six months we’ve been tracking the progress of Picplz, a service that aims to make sharing your photos as easy as possible: point, shoot, upload and you’re done. The service was created by former imeem executives Dalton Caldwe... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | Picplz's Social Photo App Comes To The iPhone | We’ve written about the launch of Picplz, a photo-sharing application being developed by imeem execs Dalton Caldwell and Bryan Berg. The startup initially rolled out an Android app earlier this year and today is debuting its free iPhone app... |
| May 28, 2010 | Picplz Hits The Android Marketplace | Yesterday we wrote about the imminent release of picplz, the new location-centric photo streaming service being being developed by imeem execs Dalton Caldwell and Bryan Berg.
The service is still in closed early testing, but early adopter t... |
| May 27, 2010 | You Can Try Picplz Soon, But Only On Android | New online photo and location service Picplz, being developed by imeem execs Dalton Caldwell and Bryan Berg, is still far from being fully baked. But people who are determined to get an early look at the new service will soon have a way to ... |
| Apr 15, 2010 | Details On Imeem Founders Next Startup: Picplz (Updated) | There are two financing rumors buzzing through Silicon Valley this week. The first is the huge Groupon funding which we wrote about yesterday. The second, on the other end of the scale dollar-wise, is the new startup created by Imeem execs ... |