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10 min read · Jun 21, 2016 The first version of Instagram for Android was built in four months by a team of two engineers. It’s been four years since that launch, and in that time we’ve added features such as video, direct messaging, photo maps, advertiser support, and new ways to discover and explore […]
We have some entertaining news to share with you today. We have recently registered with the SEC and are now considered Registered Investment Advisors. Did we do this so that we can have cooler business cards? No. Did we do this because our back office was lacking in purpose? Heck no. We had to, per […]
Last weekend, thousands of Instagrammers from all over the world got together forWorldwide InstaMeet 11, one of Instagram’s community-organized, real-world meetups.#WWIM11 was our largest and most geographically diverse InstaMeet ever — thousands of Instagrammers from Muscat to Bushwick shared over 100k photos. With over 300 million people around the world using Instagram every month, 65% […]
I was enlightened by a friend. It seems I am always “the history guy” and my friend said I cant live without this. It’s TRUE.What got me into history, was sitting on my granddad’s knee, and having him tell me accounts of his dad that fought in WWI for the RFA, and his time in […]
Just use NSDate, right? The obvious choice for handling dates in iOS and OS X apps is NSDate. It’s obvious, right? It’s got “date” right in its name, doesn’t it? And that’s the thing about NSDate. It’s mis-named. It almost says so right in the docs: NSDate objects encapsulate a single point in time, independent […]
With members of the militant Islamic State group claiming responsibility for multiple terrorist attacks around the world in recent years, tensions regarding the Muslim faith have been on the rise. Those concerns hit close to home for Californians last month when 14 people were killed and many more were injured in a mass shooting in […]
For some high school students, senior projects are requirements that bring them one step closer to graduation. But for one Cabrillo High School senior, her project served as a chance to raise awareness of a cause she believes in. After being assigned a creative project in her English class, Chrissy Hedges took the opportunity to […]
While she’s less than a year away from retirement, Congresswoman Lois Capps says she still has a lot she needs to get done before leaving office. “I intend to work as hard on the last day I’m in office as I did on the first day,” the Santa Barbara Democrat said. Some of her effort […]
Fearing for the worst, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors approved funding earlier this week for a new day shelter pilot program designed to provide housing for the most vulnerable when severe weather may occur. “Given the weather predictions and what we know about our homeless population, there’s an urgent need to extend the […]
The dismissal of Gary West as Cabrillo’s boys basketball coach did not last long, and West relished his return. After the Lompoc Unified School District School Board fired West as Cabrillo’s boys basketball coach earlier in the month, West was back on the sidelines coaching Thursday night and his team rolled to an 83-55 win […]