Why “Instagram For Video” Apps Will Go Big

 Why “Instagram For Video” Apps Will Go Big Posted on May 3, 2012 by ReadWriteWeb in Featured, Mobile, Social Media, Tech & Gadgets

The latest trend in smartphone apps is social video. That’s because ever since Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 Billion, attention has focused on video sharing apps and whether one of them will win the next Zuckerberg lottery. The two leading contenders are Socialcam and Viddy. ReadWriteWeb’s Alicia Eler profiled those two apps, along with a third called Klip, in a post yesterday.

In the interests of research, I signed up to and played with both Socialcam and Viddy. I uploaded my own amateur video, via my iPhone. I then applied the requisite filters, added some music and – Boom! – I became part of the social video craze. I also had a nosey around the communities of each service, to see if either one can indeed claim to be The Next Instagram. Here’s what I discovered…

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