Weeks back we saw the Instagram team announcing the global availability of its “Live Story” feature.
Originally available only in certain countries, the app is pretty much becoming a mix between Snapchat, Vine and Periscope.
The original IG Story became one of the more popular parts of the app by getting the lovely number of more than 150 million users DAILY. And now the company just want to expand the market.
You will find the option by swiping from the app and selecting “Start live video”, according to the company this way popular Instagrammers and followers can be more connected and interact with each other.
There’s a “Top Live” options to explore new and popular users, so heavy and not so heavy users can find new content, which won’t be available after the live event is finish.
Try to keep in mind that the option can now be found on every platform , so if you haven’t seen the update yet, be patient as it could take a bit before it reach your region.
The new start of the show van be found on version 10.0 and above
Good news for Instagrammers who enjoy sharing videos. You can now record and share videos that are more than 15 seconds in length. Instagram on its official handle as well as blog announced that it is going to increase the video time limit to 60 seconds.
Instagram said that people have been watching more videos and the video viewing time has increased by more than 40 percent. Similar to Facebook, Instagram has been focusing on videos as it an important part of the internet ecosystem. Last month, Instagram introduced video view counts something like Vine loops in hopes of encouraging more video posts.
Instagram added, it is bringing back the ability to make videos out of multiple clips from your camera roll for iOS app. Instagram said that it is rolling out the update and it will be available for everyone in the “coming months”.
Windows phone is growing at a steady pace and today we still see the ignorance by media as regards to mention never mind speak about the windows phone and windows ecosystem.
Early on in the year we had such a massive fail of an article titled the top 300 apps.not one of them windows,whilst there was apps in this selection for which too are present in the windows phone store,plus several top apps,the media just continue to ignore that there is a third OS which is windows phone,this is factually true.
Earlier in the year we seen a top 300 apps article,windows phone totally omitted.
So cast your mind back to this article top 300 apps.
Not only has this media outlet failed,on windows phone,and nokia too ,another one has too several times.
Read here on that..here and here we where completely ignored on both these articles,on site,via twitter and email.utter ignorance..
Today we come across another app article once again failing to acknowledge the windows phone OS.
And yet again its the same people in one form or another,when will these folks ever wake up?
None the less they don’t have one windows phone app and do for ios and android,yet boast about apple and new specific apps for apple products…
The best 20 mobile apps to download now.. telegraph uk
Now given that some of these apps are on windows phone ,windows phone is not once mentioned
There is multiple brilliant apps daily been announced for windows phone and its been ignored,media seem to thrive on apple and android,some of which these folks hire are of course previous apple staff etc so one wonders as to the abundance of mentions of the same products.
Time to wake up and smell the roses folks,i use android,i use windows,i use windows phone 8, i use all operating systems as i test devices,there is apps are coming,time to start mentioning them and featuring them in your one sided reports..
Once again we see an article dissing windows phone,this time from the journal.ie the very ones we have asked when will they produce a windows-phone application and reply with the same boring response we get from other media outlets here in ireland.
How can an OS be a success if its not supported ? Proven that the OS is growing it seems most of the media and others alike have an issue,not only that they fail to produce apps,fail to support the OS and jump straight into the ios and android markets.
Its time they all woke up and realised that windows is the third operating system and and people like it,people want it,people want apps but no, Irish companies are not providing them. that includes the journal too,yes i am naming you because ive asked more than once,not only that,you like to splatter apple stories quite often and fail to report on windows phone.
Big example 22 October 2013,nokia and apple hold events,you flaunt the apple launch but not one word on the Nokia lumia announcements,you where asked on twitter why,and you simply ignored it.
From the journal.ie
WINDOWS PHONE USERS have it tough. Developers tend to focus more on iOS and Android because there are more users there, meaning that it’s usually third in the list of developer priorities.
This means that even the biggest apps take a while to make it over, even if they’ve been on other platforms for a while.
Considering Instagram was launched on iOS in 2010, and has been on Android since April 2012, Windows Phone users have been waiting a long time for it to reach their phones, but it finally arrived last night.
Except there were a few problems.
Granted, it’s a beta version (Instagram even puts the word ‘beta’ in block caps just to get the point across) so there were always going to be flaws, but some of them were more jarring than others. The major problem was that there was no obvious way to take photos directly on the app, which led to rumours that you could only view photos on it.
Instead, the app directs you to the phone’s camera roll where you can take a snap before returning to the app where you can then apply a filter and upload. It’s a roundabout method, but the end result is the same.
A spokesperson told Business Insider that “You can add photos from your camera roll, but taking a photo with the in-app camera is not a capability as of now.”
The second is that it doesn’t allow you to record videos on the app yet, despite the app’s description saying you can. This is something that will be included in a future update as Instagram gets used to the platform, but it will be disappointing to users that they won’t be able to upload videos yet.
