If you're not claiming to be famous, normally people couldn't care less who you say your are on the Internet. In fact, most people actively don't care. Instagram isn't in that crowd however. After its recent TOS update, it's been harassing more and more users to confirm their identities with pictures of government-issued ...
Restaurants Began Banning Food Photography
on 1.24.13
Some restaurants have started banning customers from taking photos of their food, the New York Times reports, quoting several chefs in New York City. If other restaurants follow suit, it may signal the demise of "foodstagramming," a popular practice that involves restaurant-goers taking Instagram pictures of their meals, ...
Flickr App Offers Viable Alternative to Instagram
on 1.17.13
You probably know someone who does it. I’m talking about the friend who can’t start dinner without taking a picture of it first. Or the family member agonizing over which Instagram filter to use before uploading his 100th picture of last night’s sunset. For better or worse, apps like Instagram have made sharing with ...
Instagram’s “25% User Drop” is False, Isn’t Privacy-Related
on 12.30.12
There are reports around the Web that Instagram has lost 25% around of its daily active users connected to Facebook, according to an app-tracking firm AppData. Some reports are attributing it to the change in Instagram’s terms of service, which had caused a frenzy on the Web. Facebook’s stock also is down more than 2% ...
Instagram Facing Class-Action Lawsuit for Privacy Issue
on 12.26.12
Because it's the holidays and people will sue anything and everything is horrible, a California Instagram user has filed a class action lawsuit over that terms of service kerfuffle last week. Needless to say, this is dumb. While Instagram likely overreached by claiming it could receive compensation by selling your photos ...
Instagram: “Don’t hate us! Here’s another new filter!”
on 12.24.12
Instagram messed up big time last week when it freaked everyone out with changes to its privacy policy related to licensing user photos for advertisements. After days of backlash, Instagram reverted back to its old terms of service. While the damage has already been done, Instagram is hoping a new update to its iOS and ...
Instagram Reverts to Original Terms of Service
on 12.21.12
Following the controversy over recently-unveiled changes to its terms of service, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom just announced via blog post that the advertising-related section of the TOS has reverted to “the original version that has been in effect since we launched the service in October 2010.” The ...
Shelly Palmer Chats with Richard Quest About Instagram on CNNi
on 12.19.12
Shelly Palmer Chats with Richard Quest About Instagram on CNNi. ...
How to Back Up Your Instagram Photos, Delete Your Account
on 12.19.12
If you're the dramatic, over eager type who burns bridges for a living (or if you're just sick of all the bullcrap on the Internet), you can delete your Instagram account with hardly any fuss. Unlike other social networks that add hurdles and boulders and cliffs and a jazillion questions to stop you from deleting your ...
Shelly Palmer Radio Report – December 19, 2012
on 12.19.12
After last week’s rumors that we might soon see advertisements in our Instagram feeds, Facebook’s real plan for monetization has a lot more people up in arms. Instagram added a line to their Terms of Service, which states that “a business may pay Instagram permission to display your photos in connection with paid or ...
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