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Instagram: 16B Photos, 130M Users, 1B Likes
Instagram’s Kevin Systrom told us today told us how people come “together to share the world in real time” as the company planned to unveil what’s widely expected to be a video service. He also revealed new stats: Instagram: 16B Photos, 130M Users, 1B Likes. That’s 30 billion more users than reported just a month ago.
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Watch The Live Stream Of Facebook's Big Mystery Announcement Here
Facebook and Instagram are holding a very special event today.
Will we soon be taking Instagram videos instead of pics? Will the giant social network integrate more closely with it’s billion dollar baby? Will Zuck sweat and spit as much as he has in the past? Will Zuck even be there?
You’ll find the answers to these questions and more by checking out Facebook’s live stream of the event. The press conference is slated to begin promptly at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern, and we’ll have men on the ground to bring you live-blogged goodness, video demos, and hands-on analysis.
New Bing Experiment Adds Curated Lists Of Links, Images And Videos From Experts To Search Results
Microsoft today announced a new experiment for its Bing search engine that’s a bit different from the usual social search and algorithm updates we’ve come to expect from the service. Bing Boards, as this new effort is called, aims to create something akin to curated search results for a select group of searches. These lists, Microsoft says, “are visual collections of images, videos and links that tell a story from a unique point of view.”
Currently, Microsoft is working with a small group of food and lifestyle bloggers, experts and “social influencers” to create these boards. If the experiment works out, the company plans to expand these offerings to other users and topics. For the time being, though, Microsoft isn’t saying how exactly its curators are creating these lists.
Here is an example for a search query that brings up a Bing Board in the sidebar.
The Bing team argues that what it’s trying to do here is similar to what it’s been doing with social search all along. “In the same way that we’ve brought knowledge from friends and recognized experts into search, we’re providing a new way for passionate people to create highly specialized content, specifically for search,” Bing Experiences Program Manager Chen Fang writes.
Fang notes that these results are meant to be complementary to Bing’s regular web search results and will appear in Bing’s middle column.
Microsoft also announced that it’s going to run a number of other social and community experiments on Bing in the near future. While Google seems to have de-emphasized social search, Bing still remains focused on the social aspects of search, and, if anything, it looks like it’s now doubling down on these features in an effort to set itself apart from its competitors.
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