iPhone mainstay Camera+ continues to be profitable, makes $5.1M

There’s no tap dancing around it, iPhone photo app Camera+ is a money-making machine.

The sophisticated photo capture and edit application, built by iOS development shop Tap Tap Tap, has been purchased more than 6 million times on the App Store. Camera+ has also made its makers $5.1 million in revenue to date, company principal John Casasanta revealed Friday.

Camera+, which currently retails for $0.99 and offers for-charge in-app upgrades, has been a consistently strong … Continue Reading

Apple’s iPad app of the year, Snapseed, coming to Mac and Android tablets

Photography software developer Nik Software will soon release its popular Snapseed photo-editing application for Mac and select Android tablets.

Snapseed, originally released for iPhone and iPad, offers a smattering of photo-editing features and creative enhancements that help hobby photographers capture, edit, transform and share their photos — no heavy-lifting or Photoshop skills required. The application has been lauded for its stylish interface and professional-grade quality, and even took home Apple’s coveted iPad app of the … Continue Reading

Instagram now flooding Facebook with 6 photos per second

A fun little iPhone application for sharing stylized mobile captures ballooned into a social network of significance in 2011. Today, the app’s insta-photo-sharing effects are felt with increasing force on Facebook and the rest of the web.

Instagram, the still iPhone-only application, is penetrating the world’s largest social network at a rate of roughly six photos per second, co-founder Kevin Systrom shared exclusively with VentureBeat. The figure means that the filter-ific application is now contributing … Continue Reading

Create a more personal social network with Ourspot

Want to share memories with your significant other without sharing to your entire social network? Or maybe show videos and photos to your best friend and no one else? Meet Ourspot, a new website that creates a space to share videos, links, notes and memories between you and one other person.

“Most sites on the Internet are egocentric. With Ourspot, we want to make everything relationship centric, focusing on the relationship between two people,” Ourspot … Continue Reading

Tiny Review iPhone app makes everyday photos into special moments (exclusive)

As photos become the new status update, we’re going to see big changes in the way people create, combine and consume words and images. The latest example is from a 500 Startups company called Tiny Review, which unites microblogging and social photo-sharing in its free photo storytelling app. And with a new update for the app out today, the Tiny Review craze is about to take off.

With Tiny Review, users take photos on their … Continue Reading

Lightbox leaps beyond Instagram with Tumblr-like photo journals

Many Android smartphone owners are eagerly awaiting the chance to use the hot photo sharing app Instagram currently only offers on Apple phones. But Instagram’s Android-only competitor Lightbox is debuting a new photo journal feature today that may make some iOS Instagram users jealous.

Lightbox’s original app let you instantly snap, enhance, and automatically upload photos to the Lightbox website and other services. The company’s new photo journal feature — accessible through the new version … Continue Reading

iPhone 4S already the second most popular cameraphone on Flickr

Apple’s fast-selling iPhone 4S is now the second-most used cameraphone on the popular photo-sharing service Flickr, according to the site’s Camera Finder page.

The iPhone 4 is actually the most-popular camera of all on Flickr now, but the iPhone 4S has yet to crack the top 5 list of most-used cameras on Flickr, which features traditional cameras like the Nikon D90 and the Canon EOS 5D Mark II in second and third place. But give … Continue Reading

PicPlz adds editing to its photo sharing apps, powered by Aviary

Snap. Edit. Share.

Now you’ll be able to edit pictures on PicPlz’s popular photo sharing apps, thanks to mobile photo editing technology from Aviary.

“It was a logical fit” to include Aviary’s editing tools, PicPlz CTO Jeff Argast told VentureBeat in an interview earlier today. PicPlz previously considered implementing some editing tools of its own, but Argast says it wouldn’t have been as fully featured as Aviary’s offering. “Aviary provided the full package,” he said.… Continue Reading

Flickr launches its first official Android app, plus iPhone “Photo Sessions”

Popular photo-sharing site Flickr is stepping up its mobile efforts with new Android and iOS features.

The site launched its first Android app today, and also introduced a new feature for iPhone and iPad customers called Photo Session.

Photo Session lets you “flip” through a gallery of photos with friends, no matter where they are in the world, using your iPad or iPhone.

“Photo Session is like sitting next to your friend and flipping through … Continue Reading

Y Combinator-backed 1000memories launches Shoeboxes, says revenue in sight

1000memories, an online memory-sharing site, is well on its way to finding revenue after launching a new content-sharing feature today called Shoeboxes.

1000memories, which got its start in life at startup incubator Y Combinator, creates landing pages for individuals. Anyone can jump to a page and write a few words or post a picture or song. The result is a collage of photos, music and thoughts that’s supposed to capture the essence of that person. … Continue Reading

Instagram 2.0 adds full-size images and live filters

Photo-sharing mobile application Instagram released a major update to its iPhone, iPod touch and iPad apps today, finally increasing its image size to the maximum allowed by the various Apple devices.

Instagram is a hugely popular photo-filter app that has more than 9 million users and 250 million shared photos. In addition to the increased image size, this 2.0 update adds four new retro-tastic filters, the ability to see how filters look in real-time, and … Continue Reading

Everpix sends all your photos (yes, all of them) to the cloud

Everpix, a cloud-based photo storage service that automatically synchronizes with most photo-sharing applications, launched a private alpha today at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco.

Everpix is a desktop client that browses your computer for photos and uploads everything to a remote server run by Everpix. If you add photos to the computer, Everpix automatically sends them to those remote servers. Everpix also connects to Facebook accounts and imports photos from those accounts, … Continue Reading

Flickr now lets you geofence your pics for improved privacy

Flickr is introducing a new security feature intended to keep creepers away from your most sensitive location information.

The photo sharing service is now letting account holders cordon off custom geographical areas, called geofences, and set specific privacy controls for those locations.

“For example, you might want to create a geofence around the your home or school that only allows Friends and Family to see the location of the photos you geotag in that area … Continue Reading

Hurricane Irene mayhem chronicled via Instagram

Instagram users hunkered down in New York, New Jersey and other cities in the path of the rather menacing-looking Hurricane Irene are chronicling the mayhem through an online Instagram photo album called Instacane.

Hurricane Irene began pounding New York and nearby states this evening, prompting a flood of content related to the hurricane on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and — yes — Instagram. The photo-sharing site, based in San Francisco-based, has more than … Continue Reading

Exclusive: Twitpic founder launches Twitter competitor Heello

Twitpic founder Noah Everett today announced the launch of Heello, the startup he’s been brewing for exactly one year.

Yesterday, Twitter completed the rollout of its own official photo-sharing app, a move that spells danger for other photo-sharing services that use Twitter’s API.

Twitpic was on the top of that list, and now, Everett is swinging back at Twitter with his own microblogging competitor that includes photo-sharing capabilities out of the gate, with video-sharing and … Continue Reading

Twitter’s in-app photo sharing comes to all users

Twitter.com has rolled out its in-app photo service to users.

A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat that the rollout is complete for all U.S. and international users on Twitter.com.

The feature, powered by Photobucket, allows users to attach images to tweets from the web-based Twitter.com app.

To add an image to a tweet, simply click inside the tweet-composing text field. Then, you’ll see a small camera icon below the field next to a small location … Continue Reading

Color’s DJ Patil joins Greylock Partners

DJ Patil, the former chief product officer of photo-sharing startup Color, announced today that he is joining LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman at venture capital firm Greylock Partners.

Patil will remain as an advisor at Color, but he will no longer be involved in the day-to-day activities. The company does not plan on hiring another chief product officer to replace him, Patil told VentureBeat. Before Color, Patil served as the chief scientist of business social networking … Continue Reading

Yo’ mamma loves the GLMPS video-photo hybrid app

The line between photos and videos is blurred with a new iPhone app called GLMPS.

Photos snapped with GLMPS include a five second clip of the moment leading up to the snap. The videos (“picdeos?”) are added to your camera roll and uploaded to GLMPS.com where you can view and grab them for embeding.

Sharing on Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter and Tumblr is supported and encouraged. “Encouraged” to the point you can’t start using the app … Continue Reading

Instagram snaps 150M photos, 7M users — still only 4 employees

The growth of popular photo-sharing app Instagram hasn’t slowed down over the past few months. The company announced today that it has reached a milestone of 150 million shared photos, and it now boasts over 7 million users.

That’s shockingly great growth for a company that just launched last October. As we’ve mentioned before, neither Twitter nor Foursquare had even reached 1 million users at this point in their lifetimes. And yes, the company still … Continue Reading

Instagram gets new competition from photo sharing app Streamzoo

Fuzzy, retro-filtered photo sharing is starting to look like a real business. Now Streamzoo is going after the virally popular Instagram with an updated, multi-platform version of its photo-sharing app, released today.

The Streamzoo team stopped by VentureBeat last week to share the product before making it public.

“We understand this space is crowded,” says Manish Vaidya, vice president of products for Streamzoo. He’s the guy in the middle of the picture on the right … Continue Reading