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Lonely Planet App: Trips for sharing

World-renowned travel publishers Lonely Planet are launching their second app—Trips. Internationally, it’s already getting buzz as Instagram for travel enthusiasts. Insta-similarity Much of Trips will be immediately familiar to Instagram users. As noted by TechCrunch, Trips lets users heart and share photos and videos. After they’ve set up their own profile, users can also follow […]

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WhatsApp reaches 1 billion, Snapchat 250 million users

WhatsApp Status and Snapchat stories are passing big milestones on their respective apps. Tell me a story WhatsApp’s success has been a result of its multifaceted features, from voice and audio calls, to text messaging and encrypted file sharing, with 76% of its 1.3 billion monthly users returning daily. Mean while, Snapchat has been spurring

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Amazon Spark brings photos and stories to Prime

Amazon Spark is poised to improve product discovery through user-posted shoppable content. I like this, now you can like this Much like Instagram’s niche of shoppable photos, Amazon users can now post images, stories, or products of interest, that other users and comment and react to. The hope is to capture off-site social activity around

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Instagram adds a new way to creatively reply to Stories

Instagram is now making it possible for users to respond to Stories through videos, photos, and boomerangs. Instant gratification with style Users will be able to respond via video to a Story just like traditional posts, with the added flare of stickers, text and a plethora of other unique embellishments. Replies will be accompanied by

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