2010, a handful of mobile photo-sharing applications unleashed armies
of handset users to snap pictures and instantly share them across
multiple platforms and networks: Instagram growth exploded to become a Twitter for pictures; Picplz received generous funding, Path emerged from stealth mode, Occipital enabled 360-degree panoramic experiences, Foodspotting encouraged users to capture food images, DailyBooth positioned itself to focus on the front-facing camera, and World Lens
translated signs from English language to Spanish. Photo-sharing
features were also embedded into existing sharing services, such as Foursquare and Posterous. (This entire arc was captured in a discussion on Quora, “What explains the explosion in social photosharing entrepreneurial activity?”) To read the full, original article click on this link: The Thin Wedge Of Quora
Author: Semil Shah
