Instagram Reversal Doesn't Appease Everyone
New York Tim
Kevin Systrom has had quite the busy week. Fresh from nixing his revamped terms of service that caused such a stir on Tuesday — and doing a 180-degree turn on those terms of se After an uproar over privacy concerns, Instagram's co-founder, Kevin Systrom, said the service would revert to its previous user agreement. Read [...]
Read MoreInstagram outrage reveals a powerful but unaware Web community
Washington P
The simple story line from this week's uprising against Instagram is this: Powerful tech company pushes the line on privacy and sparks such widespread user outrage that it has no choice but to retreat. Score: Users 1, Instagram 0. Loading Comments After an uproar over privacy concerns, Instagram's co-founder, Kevin Systrom, said the service would [...]
Read MoreInstagram's most followed user, Kim Kardashian, might dump the app
Los Angeles
Kardashian, who has 5.7 million followers, voiced her concerns with Instagram after the Facebook-owned photo sharing app revealed a new terms of service on Monday that would take effect next month. In those new terms, Instagram had wording that read as The reality star is the No.1 user on the photo-sharing company, and her decision [...]
Read MorePro photogs feeling spurned by Instagram
San Francisc
Remember all the way back on Tuesday, when everyone and their artistically-filtered dog was freaking out about Instagram's new privacy policy? How long ago that seems, now that That said, Instagram maintains that it was created to become a business and would like to experiment with various forms of advertisements to make money. Instagram doesn't [...]
Read MorePro photogs feeling spurned by Instagram
San Francisc
UPDATE: Instagram just posted a lengthy blog entry clarifying various aspects of their privacy policy. The company promises to "modify" some of the language to make its intent m When Instagram changed its terms of service, I envisioned a scenario where the company would use my photos near some place to advertise that place to [...]
Read MoreWith Instagram, Facebook Spars With Twitter – WSJ.com
Wall Street
Facebook-owned Instagram, faced with thousands of angry users upset by news that the popular app would let advertisers pick and choose among user-posted photos for ads, reversed course and said late Tuesday it won't allow that. National Geographic Instagram has made a lot of missteps in the last few days. Could this be the service's [...]
Read MoreMigrate your Instagram pics to Flickr with ease | How To – CNET
CNET (blog)
When you say that Instagram "does not claim ownership of any Content," were you hoping I'd be easily satisfied and stop reading right then and there? Did you think I would miss the next sentence, which totally refutes the one before it? Did you think I FAIRFAX, CA – DECEMBER 18: The Instagram logo is [...]
Read MoreInstagram says users' photos won't appear in ads
CBS News
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Instagram, which spurred suspicions this week that it would sell user photos after revising its terms of service, has sparked renewed debate about how much control over personal data users must give up to live and participate FAIRFAX, CA – DECEMBER 18: The Instagram logo is displayed on an Apple iPhone [...]
Read MoreHow a storm revealed the myth of the 'cloud'
Washington P
In October 2010 the photo-sharing mobile software, Instagram, was introduced to the world of smartphone users. Initially, Instagram was only offered to those. Instagram has made a small move toward fulfilling one of its fans' biggest demands – making the service available on the Web, rather than solely through a mobile app. The change doesn't [...]
Read MoreAmazon Outage Hits Netflix, Heroku, Pinterest, Instagram
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The Bradenton Herald wants you to share your Fourth of July photos. Amazon services get nailed by electrical storms, zapping movie streaming, interest pinning, and artsy photo taking.
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