The latest to join the cadre of startups offering tools for more private sharing outside of Facebook’s massive footprint is not, in fact, another startup, but rather another media giant: Disney. Citing its “rich heritage in storytelling,” Disney’s Interactive division , best known for games, sites, and virtual worlds like “Where’s My Water?,” “Temple Run: Brave,” “Club Penguin,” Disney.com, and more, today launched a personal, mobile memory maker simply called “ Story .” The new app , which debuts first on iPhone , takes the photos and videos saved on your device, then automatically organizes them into sharable, but by default, private albums that can also be personalized with captions, text and various themes and layouts . . . → Read More: Disney Joins The Private Social Networking Craze With New Photo & Video Sharing App Called “Story”
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Just when you thought chat app makers had run out of things to say — i.e. because they’ve said it all already, via text, VoIP, videochatting, emoticons, snaps , pokes , stickers , Chat Heads , WHATEVER – along comes London-based app studio Ustwo to pour its distinctive brand of fun-loving mischief into the category . . . → Read More: Move Over Chat Heads. Ustwo’s New App Honk! Wants You To Meme-ify Your Friends With “Visually Explosive” Messaging U.K. mobile games and app developer studio ustwo , creator of games and apps like Whale Trail and MouthOff to name a couple, has launched a new photo-sharing app called Rando . . . . → Read More: Ustwo’s Rando Is A Random Photo-Sharing App That Deliberately Snubs Social Features  NeroKwik, the cloud photo organization service from the makers of the leading disc-burning software of old, is officially debuting its iPhone and iPad app today. The iOS clients join its existing Android and online products, offering users the ability to pull in all the photos they’ve uploaded to Facebook and Google+, organize them by metadata and other criteria, and view them in ready-made presentations called “Tapestries.” The iOS launch of the NeroKwik app means it now reaches the vast majority of mobile users, meaning a much broader potential audience for the company’s cloud photo play. . . . → Read More: NeroKwik Brings Its Cloud Photo Collection And Sharing App To The iPhone And iPad  Moment.me , a startup that debuted its automatic, social albums application for iPhone this past fall, has made its way to Android. The app allows users to combine not only photos, but also video, as well as updates from social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram and Google+, into one album. These albums are also augmented with content shared by friends and others who posted content at that same place and time. . . . → Read More: Automatic Album Maker Moment.me Arrives On Android, Adds A “Manual Mode” Mode To Boost Engagement  Minus is putting out an update to its Android (and iOS ) app today that not only changes and improves the interface, but also changes the way the service works as a whole. The app used to be focused on picture storage to share with friends, and has now pivoted a bit to be focused on meeting and sharing with people that are nearby. The basic idea is to see other Minus users around you and then chat, share photos and browse other people's photos. . . . → Read More: Minus updated with new interface and featureset  Cooliris , the Kleiner Perkins-backed photo browsing and sharing startup, is again expanding its footprint in key emerging markets, this time in Russia thanks to a new partnership with Yandex. The move follows the company’s launch of a localized version in China in December, which also saw a partnership with Renren , aka “the Facebook of China.” “The great thing about Yandex is that it’s a very integrated company, similar to Google,” says Cooliris’s VP of Business Development, Sebastian Blum. . . . → Read More: Cooliris Expands Again With Yandex Partnership, Hits 3 Million Downloads On iOS  Even as SnapChat leaves tech reporters and people over 25 scratching their heads — is it the next Instagram, or a massive sexting conspiracy? — the app has succeeded in bringing ephemeral (or self-destructive, if you’re into the whole Mission Impossible thing) messaging to the mainstream . . . → Read More: Not-So-Ephemeral Messaging: New SnapChat “Hack” Lets Users Save Photos Forever  The Dropbox for Android app just got a nice little update, and now it's even easier to share a photo or a collection of photos with friends and family. The new tools allow you to create albums from any images inside your Dropbox, and share the created albums through the Android intents system . . . → Read More: Dropbox app updated with new photo sharing tools  In the aftermath of a controversial story claiming Instagram’s traffic numbers were down, the data that was the source of the story has now disappeared altogether. Instagram was in the spotlight, and owner Facebook’s shares tumbled , when the New York Post ran a story between Christmas and New Year’s Day claiming that the popular photo app’s traffic was falling off a cliff after the controversial introduction, and then reversal, of new terms of service. . . . → Read More: Facebook Removes Instagram User Counts From Developer API After Holiday Traffic Confusion |
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