Evo & Grace: The WanderLusts

This is it!! The one thing we've been waiting for Instagramers!! Instagram , the immensely popular photo-sharing app that was acquired by Facebook in a  $1 billion deal last year , is not just for photos anymore. At a  press event  at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters, Instagram’s co-founder and CEO  Kevin Systrom  debuted a new feature called, simply, “ Video On Instagram. ” This lets people create 15-second videos to share on the service. The feature includes simple editing capabilities as well as 13 new filters, which were specially created for video. “What we did to photos, we just did to video,” Systrom said. This feature, which is rolling out to all Instagram users on  iOS  and  Android  today, will impact a huge number of people due to Instagram’s current reach. Systrom said today that Instagram  has 130 million monthly users , who have shared 16 billion photos to date. Engagement on the app is high: Over 1 billion “...

We've seen a lot of this # on Twitter.. And honestly, I could never imagine having it on Facebook too! Support for the all-but-ubiquitous topic organization system was  rumored in March  and will roll out to a small percentage of users Wednesday. Facebook will roll out hashtags to more users in the coming weeks. The social network wants to make it easier for users to find content already on Facebook, and functional hashtags are the first step. According to  Facebook  , many users already post hashtags anyway, so why not make them work. Hashtags will be both clickable and searchable, so, for example, topics like  #NSALeaks  or  #NBAFinals  will now exist. Hashtags from other services, such as Instagram, are clickable as well. Users will also be able to compose posts directly from a hashtag feed and search results. That could make adding real-time content to specific streams easier than before. [ Source ]