By - Robert Schoon
Category - Meeting Space Santa Clarita
Posted By - Hampton Inn Santa Clarita
 |
| Meeting Space Santa Clarita |
After Facebook sent out enigmatic coffee-stained postcard press invites to a June 20 event, saying "A small team has been working on a big idea. Join us for coffee and learn about a new product," rumors are hitting the internet that Facebook's Instagram might be adding video capability.
The anonymously sourced report comes from TechCruch, whose source says that Facebook will reveal on June 20 that Instagram will be adding a feature that will allow people to make short videos and share them on the popular social network. If this is true, Facebook would be following Twitter's lead. The rival social media network added Vine to iOS on Jan. 24 2012, an app and service which allows users to post six-second videos to their tweets. Vine became available for some versions of Android early in June.
While the Instagram video report is not confirmed and could be a red herring, there are indications that Instagram video may be coming. Earlier in May, former deputy social media editor for Reuters, Matthew Keys, reported that Facebook was testing a video feature for Instagram internally, according to an anonymous source. According to Keys' report, the feature would allow users to upload a video between five to 10 seconds long from their mobile devices, and share them on Instagram's network. Keys had no information about a launch date or whether Instagram's hallmark filters would be included as part of the new service.
The move by Facebook could be the most likely rumor attributed to the June 20 event, given how popular Vine — at the moment, a six-second video sharing social media service that is owned by Twitter — has become in the past six months. Twitter bought Vine in the fall of 2012 and debuted it in January 2013, albeit only for iOS devices.
No comments:
Post a Comment