Facebook photos get another boost size

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The most popular photo sharing website is getting another update.

In the blog post tonight, Facebook — which is by far the largest site of photos from the Internet — has announced that it is releasing a new photo viewer that represents the image is 960 pixels wide, as opposed to 720 pixels they were from March 2010 (they were 620 pixels before that). The viewer himself is also getting an update that replaces the current black Lightbox opaque white, which he says puts more emphasis on the photo itself. Facebook also said that photography now load twice as fast, although he doesn't get in the way he is serving content so much faster.

Facebook photos in a large update was released in September 2010, when he introduced the black based Lightbox photo viewer and added support for pictures bigger than 2048 pixels wide (it is not actually displayed in the Viewer, but you can download them at this size). This update finally made Facebook a viable way to share photos of high quality (previously you could only upload a low-resolution version).

It was a great week on Facebook. On Tuesday it announced a number of settings, mostly related to its privacy controls and photo tagging, you will soon be able to approve the photos before they show up in your profile that users ask for years. This also drastically changed the way Facebook jobs, less emphasis on checkins. Today confirmed that it is killing off its daily deals, Groupon as only four months after the start, while location-based transactions is still around.

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Next generation 911 would support the text, photos, video and data

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No one ever wants to be in a situation that requires emergency services, but when you think all "dial 911" it really helps. Kind of. In truth, our emergency response system is pretty outdated when we consider all the different forms of communication, which will be the core. But fortunately, FCC Charmain Julius Genachowski has been tapped by the recently announced that five step plan is in place to bring text, photo, video and data to support next-generation 911.

"It's hard to imagine that airlines can send text messages if your flight is delayed, but you cannot send a text message 911 in an emergency," said Genachowski has been tapped by. "Unfortunately it is true that our emergency response communication has not kept pace with commercial innovation — has not kept pace with now do what ordinary people every day with communication devices."

This is a very sweet News considering there are many situations in which the phone support just doesn't cut it. Let's say you're in a kind of bank robbery hostage situation (knock on wood). You can't just whip out the old Smartphone and yammer in police wearing masks. But the text will definitely help you, and anyone who is young, had a cell phone in the classroom with them knows that the hidden text message isn't terribly difficult.

Another hypothetical: you are convenient to store one night ice cream when perusing through the selection of a mugger pulls out a gun and captures all the money from the register. You know, he's going to run for it, but if you can just snap a pic or grab some videos, the police can actually find it. For several years, photos and videos sent in via next generation 911 service may be one of the best ways to catch criminals.

The service does not roll out for another five to ten years, but at the same time, a set of 911 will do just fine.

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Immodestly adds inline photos and even more Polish to their iPhone app

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Back in the day, knock on immodestly iPhone app used to be that he was not very visually appealing. This is especially true in comparison with rival Gowalla. But much has changed over the past few months. And now that Foursquare has extensive finance and larger group to deal with the painful consequences of rapid growth, they are putting a lot of attention to how things look and feel. And it pays off.

Today brings the update to the iPhone app that brings a new coat of arms of Poland. First of all, you'll see that the pictures are now displayed in the text when you view your check-in activity stream. This corresponds to the functionality that was recently added to immodestly Web site. He not only ups visual appeal, it makes service to feel more alive and personal.

This new, more visual experience permeates the entire app.config if you land a spot on the page and click through to see who is there, if any of your friends, you'll see their photos and shouts from this place inline.

Updating Foursquare also touting a common design tweaks, including the caption of the clean up. One thing that will please many users is to add more tasks to a TAP within the app previously, you had to focus on tiny comment bubbles to leave a comment. Now you can click on the check itself to do so.

One thing not yet included in this update: lists. New feature that Foursquare launched yesterday on their Web site continues to work on mobile. But it goes in the next version, they promise. In addition, all these new features should be presented in the Android and BlackBerry applications soon.

Soon to be live iPhone app when it, find it here.

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Multi-Tech Pinhole "colours" objects with photos from life

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Take two minutes of your day and watch this beautiful and interesting little short documentary film about Shikai Tseng and his interesting photographic technique. Zeng used specially built multi-pinhole window to represent objects, which were covered in liquid light to their environment.

The result is a beautiful and unique object essentially Three-dimensional one-time printing. It looks like it mainly provides vases, I'm guessing because they are nice and round and their surface is liquid light well.

Here's a video, Juriaan Booij. Slightly longer version can be found here.

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Recent statistics Crazy Instagram: 150 million photos, 15 in the second, 80% filter

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In June this year, we noted that Instagram has a big milestone: 5 million users. While the total number of photos at the service was at 95 million, and given the pace of growth, they are expected to soon pass 100 million. Well, they missed, indicating that milestone, but today, not even two months later, they you mention another: 150 million photos.

It is 150 million photos are Instagram only 9 months since the app for comparison's sake, it took almost two years hit the Flickr 100 million photos on their service. Incredibly, Instagram now see photos 1.3 million downloaded every day is the number of 15 pictures per second.

The service is currently well past 7 million users, Instagram founder Kevin Systrom tells us. Again, that is over 2 million under the age of 2 months. Without any strategic actions they've grown to become the basis of the top 25 free app in the Apple App Store.

Yes, Flickr can now be well past photos 5 billion, and Facebook, you can see photos of 750 million into one crazy weekend, but remember that Instagram is still available only on one platform: iOS. Each of these 150 million photos loaded with iPhone (and to a much lesser extent, iPod touches and iPads). It cannot yet be used Instagram from any other device, and you can't even download photos from your computer. While Android will support, the experience will remain predominantly one mobile, said Systrom.

One more crazy stat: Systrom said that 150 million photographs, 80 per cent have filters applied to them. (A) of the remaining 20 per cent, many who come from other camera iPhone apps with their own filters.

Oh and don't forget Bieber.

Above find 150 million photos from user janefot.

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