- 500px acquire recommendation engine Algo Anywhere to aid image discovery 500px, the fast-growing photography community, has acquired recommendation engine Algo Anywhere to personalise users' content experience and aid image discovery.
- Facebook introduces Camera, a standalone photo sharing app Facebook is increasingly being used solely as a photo sharing service by a lot of its users and today Facebook has somewhat proved this to be true by releasing a standalone photo sharing app known as Camera.
- Instagram's zero to $1 billion valuation within 19 months [Infographic] Instagram has always been a stand-out app ever since it first launched on the iPhone in October 2010. Some 19 months later, however, who'd have thought it would be acquired by Facebook for $1 billion?
- New Flickr makeover almost certainly looks like Pinterest Popular photo-sharing service Flickr is getting a new Pinterest-style makeover before the end of February in the form of a new justified view photostream.
- Instagram hits 150 million uploads in less than one year Instagram, the hugely popular iPhone photo app, has recorded 150 million photo uploads since it launched last October. Out of those 150 million photos uploaded, 120 million have had filters applied.
- Google’s Photovine website is live, details of new photo-sharing service emerge The website for Google's new mysterious photo-sharing service, Photovine, is now live. Although no product or mobile app is available yet to use, the landing page and privacy policy and support pages do give some insights into what we can expect from the service when it launches.
- Twitter to launch its own photo-sharing service Twitter will launch its own photo-sharing service later this week if reports from All Things Digital are true. It's understood that Twitter CEO Dick Costolo will announce the service at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California tomorrow.
- Flickr brings beautiful slideshows to the iPad Flickr, the most popular photo sharing social network, has made a small but welcome update to its light box feature. The update targets iPad users specifically and allows images to be viewed full-screen in the browser, with a simple swiping motion enabled to cycle between previous and next images.
- Facebook gets face detection with new photo tag suggestions In a blog post earlier today Facebook have announced a new photo tags suggestions feature that uses face detection technology. Photo tags will be automatically suggested to uploads based on previous tagging data within your social graph.
- Social photo sharing site Flickr reaches five billion uploads Flickr’s popularity continues to grow with the service quietly celebrating its five billionth photo upload.