• What to Expect from the Facebook F8 Conference This Week

    What to Expect from the Facebook F8 Conference This Week

    What can you expect from this year’s F8 conference?  Considering it’s Facebook, the possibilities are endless.  Aren’t they?  It seems that they have their hands in all of the pots.  Or maybe that’s just me.  But it appears that they have gone from being a social network, to trying to be everything you could ever…

  • Stop Blowing it Out of Proportion: Instagram Isn’t Trying to be Pinterest

    Stop Blowing it Out of Proportion: Instagram Isn’t Trying to be Pinterest

    In December Instagram launched a new feature, which seems to be a lot like the premise behind Pinterest.  Or is it? This new feature allows you to save a post into a “collection”, which is similar to the ability to “pin” to a “board”.  But I’m not convinced that this is the same thing, or…

  • Is Instagram “Stories” Giving Snapchat a Run for it’s Money?

    Is Instagram “Stories” Giving Snapchat a Run for it’s Money?

    The Instagram-Snapchat rivalry continues. Now available in Instagram Stories is the ability to create a selfie sticker and then pin the stickers to your videos. In addition Stories is expanding access to its geo-stickers. Adding to the rivalry. What’s interesting about these two services is that the number of Snapchat users was estimated around 161…