Evernote has announced two new apps to help you remember what you ate and the names of the people you are eating with, dubbed Evernote Food and Evernote Hello. The two new apps were released at LeWeb in Paris Wednesday morning. While neither of these new apps are incredibly original, both go to show that Evernote wants to become the destination for all the notes you ever want to take in your life, from a memorable meal to an interesting person. We explore Evernote Food and Hello below.
Color, the photo-sharing social app that took the tech industry by storm when it announced $41 million in prelaunch funding shortly after SXSW in March, is almost complete with its pivot. As announced at Facebook's developer conference in September, Color has attached itself to the social network and wants to fundamentally change the notion of the status update. Augmented are the notions of the "elastic" implicit social graph and many vestiges of what Color was when it originally launched.
Color has now launched in private beta around the concept of visual Facebook status updates, called "visits." We explore the new color and its evolution below.
Two weeks ago, Apple launched iOS 5 and along with it came Photo Stream, the photo-syncing feature of iCloud. With it, Mac and iOS users can syncronize their photos across the desktop, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
For those who aren't thrilled with Photo Stream, Adobe launched an alternative today called Carousel. The new applications for Mac and iOS allow users to centralize their photo library in the cloud, making them accessible across devices. The software also syncs edits that are made regardless of which device they were made on, and also keeps a back-up copy of the original.
Instagram pushed out version 2.0.1 of its mega-popular, iOS-only photo-sharing app today. In addition to routine bug-fixing and a few other minor features, the update makes changes to two of the app's photo filters, which were overhauled with the release of Instagram 2.0 two weeks go.
It was the 2.0 upgrade that offered Instagram users the most dramatic reworking of the app's camera feature yet. In addition to changes to the camera UI and some performance tweaks, the filters in particular were totally rewritten to enable users to preview them before snapping the photo. The team also rolled out four new filters.
Flickr just announced its first native Android app for shooting and sharing photos. It offers quick filters, topic and location tagging, access to comments and groups, and full-screen browsing and slideshows. It has a full list of sharing options as well as privacy controls.
There's also a new feature for all Flickr users called Photo Session, which lets members browse photo slideshows in sync together over the Web. Users can chat and doodle on photos during a Photo Session. It supports all major desktop browsers, iPhone and iPad.
Instagram, the free iPhone photography app that's grown like a weed, has a lot of both fans and critics. Some critics allege that the app's photo filters ruin perfectly good images and will be looked back at later in the photographer's life with regret. Surely there are some great photos on Instagram though, right? I've seen some great stuff posted by others in my experience using it. I wish I was a better photographer myself so I knew how to use the app better.
One group of fans in London believe they've learned to use the app very well and they've gone from geographically nearby to each other, to having regular in-person meetups to what's now perhaps the next logical step: their own gallery art show. Here at ReadWriteWeb we love democratized publishing online and we love art, so we had to take a look at MyWorldShared - a gallery show of Instagram photos that opens in London on October 22nd.
Instagram, the beloved photo-sharing app for iPhone users, has launched its biggest overhaul yet. Version 2.0, which is now available in the App Store, offers a redesigned user interface, four new filters, optional image borders and a list of new enhancements to the app's camera.
The new version of the app introduces "a complete upgrade to Instagram's camera with a brand new technology layer," reads a company blog post. Indeed, the UI of the camera itself looks completely different, with control buttons across the top of the screen and a new sample image for the filters along the bottom.
Inkstagram, a third-party Web client for beloved iPhone photo-sharing app Instagram, has added user-created hashtag albums to its browser-based photo gallery. Instagram offers hashtags as a way of browsing photos, but Inkstagram's galleries are an original feature built on top of them. Users can create galleries for hashtags as persistent, shareable Web pages that pull in all existing Instagram photos with the correct tags. The gallery page also displays its number of views and a list of related galleries for browsing.
Carel van Apeldoorn, Inkstagram's managing director, says that 300,000 unique Instagram users - around 3% of the total - have connected their accounts to Inkstagram. The third-party service has many competitors, but hashtag galleries stand out as a compelling new way to browse photos on Instagram.
Building an Android version of its popular, filter-based photo sharing app is a "a major priority" for the team at Instagram, CEO Kevin Systrom told the Guardian recently. Indeed, this is one of the most frequently demanded features for the app, which notoriously only works on iOS.
It may be hard to believe, but Instagram hasn't even been around for a year. It launched for iPhone last October and has since enjoyed enormous popularity, ballooning to 1 million users in just 10 weeks. As of June 2011, Instagram had 5 million users and that number keeps on growing. In early August, the startup announced that its app had published over 150 million photos.
Google's photo services regained prominence this year when Google Plus rolled in Picasa as the natural choice for hosting photos shared on the social network. But Panoramio, Google's less well-known photo service based on location data, is making moves as well.
Google has just announced Panoramio Groups for sharing photos with likeminded people. There's a directory for existing groups, and anybody can create a new one. Groups are a fundamental building block of a social network, and Panoramio has joined that club.
