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Lapse, an app that lets you snap and ‘develop’ rolls of film with groups of friends, raises $11M

The relentless march of social media apps’ algorithmic advertising hooks, influencer-leveraged social graphs and UX that begs for endless scrolling have led to viral success and mass-market enga

Mobile Photo Sharing App Cluster Now Focused On Private Groups, Adds Support For Video, Notes And Tablets

Mobile photo-sharing application Cluster, one of the better-designed apps for creating albums which can be shared with and collaborated on with friends, is rolling out several significant changes t

How Google Can Leverage Facebook’s Biggest Weakness

When Google launched Plus, it was clear they just wanted users to move their sharing over from Facebook. Google+ didn’t give users a new way to interact, they just copied Facebook’s model. As a re

Photo-Sharing App Cluster Snags Instagram Seed Investor Steve Anderson & Others To Lead $1.6M Round, Launches Version 1.0

Cluster, a mobile photo-sharing app which helps users collaborate on albums with their friends, is today announcing $1.6 million in seed funding in a round led by early Instagram investor Steve Ander

Origami Labs Acquires FamilyLeaf, A Competing Private Social Network For Families

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.origami.com/">Origami</a>, the Y Combinator-backed social network for families which <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/21/from-the-makers-of-everyme-origami-l

From The Makers Of Everyme, Origami Launches Its Private Sharing Service For Families

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.origami.com/">Origami</a>, the new family-focused product from Y Combinator-backed mobile social network <a target="_blank" href="http://www.everyme.com/">Everyme

Former Flip Video Execs Launch Hubble, A Private Network For Families

<a target="_blank" href="http://hubblelabs.com/">Hubble</a>, a new mobile application for private social networking created by the team that developed Flip Video, is launching today to serve as the se

Another Private Social Network For Families: Grou.ps Debuts Babyzilla App

White label social networking platform <a target="_blank" href="http://grou.ps/">Grou.ps</a> is the latest to join the increasingly crowded "private networks for posting about babies" space (we may