Vine

As of last week, Instagram users can now record, edit and apply filters to videos up to fifteen seconds long. The move was aimed squarely at Vine, Twitter’s micro video-blogging app, which lets you record six second videos. Both apps let you hold your finger on the screen to capture picture and sound. Releasing your Continue Reading →

Interestingly, Vine downloads seem to already have started sliding in several key markets just a few days after Instagram began attacking it directly. Last Thursday, Instagram added a notably Vine-like video recording feature that was met with plenty of interest from users but still put Wall Street to sleep. The popular, Facebook-owned photo-sharing service now Continue Reading →

Instagram, the immensely popular photo-sharing app that was acquired by Facebook in a $1 billion deal last year, is not just for photos anymore. At a press event at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters, Instagram’s co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom debuted a new feature called video capabilities called, simply, “Video On Instagram.” This lets people create Continue Reading →

Let’s be honest, it can be a lot of fun when rivals try to mess with each other’s big launch events. Thus, Twitter just put up a vague blog post that promises more features to come for its popular Vine video app. And as AllThingsD just reported, a new video offering from its Instagram photo-sharing Continue Reading →

We’ve been working on getting more details on a press event that Facebook is having this week. Earlier, we wrote it could launch a news-reading app, but we have since heard more details that point to something else entirely. On June 20, a source says Facebook will unveil that Instagram, its popular photo-sharing app, will Continue Reading →

Still not sure about the idea of making and sharing six-second looping videos? Consider this: on Friday there were more Vines shared on Twitter than Instagram photos. According to Topsy Analytics, there were about 2.37 million links to vine.co shared on Twitter over a 24-hour period as of about 11:30 pm PT Friday night. That’s Continue Reading →

At long last, it’s finally arrived. Twitter launched Vine, its popular video-recording and sharing app, on Android as it passed 13 million registered users worldwide. It includes much of the same functionality as the iOS version, allowing users to shoot concise, six-second videos that loop automatically on playback and include sound from the handset’s built-in Continue Reading →

I’ve never had an iPhone, but I will soon. Let me take you back. Ever since I heard the first rumors about the Galaxy S IV, it was the only phone I wanted. The two smartphones I’ve used – the Motorola Droid and Droid 3 – both ran on Android, and while I’ve had tons Continue Reading →

The popular iOS video-sharing app Vine will be coming to Android in the near future, according to its founders. The Verge is reporting the app — which Twitter launched in January — will bring the ability to create and share six-second GIF-like looping videos to Android “soon.” Vine has also submitted at app update to Continue Reading →

Last week Vine made its debut in the political world with the fist 6-second animated attack ad. On Monday, the White House joined the Vine bandwagon, publishing its first Vine through its official Twitter account. The Vine was posted to announce the annual White House Science Fair, an event at which President Barack Obama invites Continue Reading →