It's a simple idea: Take a candid portrait of someone on the street, and tell an authentic story about his or her life. The idea first came from the Humans of New York Facebook page, which was created by Brandon Stanton in 2010. Since then, "Humans of" pages from around the world have been cropping up [...]
Get ready to step up your Instagram game, because we have a new challenge: double exposure Multiple exposure in analogue photography occurs when the shutter is opened twice, exposing the film to more than one image, which then superimposes the second image onto the first, creating a stunning dual photograph. The result is often an [...]
Instagram isn't just for selfies and nostalgic Thursdays — it's a new way to tell stories and post updates in picture form. Users have a lot of freedom to experiment with what they can post and how. Filters may be the go-to way to add a touch of editing style to rough smartphone photos, but [...]
Comments on YouTube, filled as they were with more than their fair share of offense and inanity, were hardly the most beloved part of the Internet. So we cheered a few weeks back when the Google-owned video site announced a major change to its comments system. The aim was to bring more popular and engaging [...]
Trying to derive a person’s wants and needs — conscious or otherwise — from online browsing and buying habits has become crucial to companies of all kinds. Now IBM is taking the idea a step further. It is testing technology that guesses at people’s core psychological traits by analyzing what they post on Twitter, with [...]