Instagr.am vs PicPlz. Which is better?
Your Facebook feed and your Twitter timeline are probably experiencing what I started calling "The fake-lomo effect": you are probably getting lots of updates containing URLs like instagr.am and picplz.com. Check this out. Both Instagr.am and PicPlz are gorgeous apps that allow users to take pictures from their iPhones and apply lomography -like filters like these ones: PicPlz: Instagr.am: This kind of apps for photography are not new, as other apps for iPhone like LOMO and QuadCamera were available more than a year ago, but it seems that this two apps are really rocking the market. Probably, you are using one of them, possibly both (like me). Here it is a comparison between them. PicPlz is a service offered by Mixed Media Labs , a company founded by Dalton Caldwell (CEO) and Bryan Berg (CTO). Both of them worked for Imeem, a music-environment company that was shut down just after being sold to mySpace. Recently, PicPlz has received a $5MML investment from a16z.com . On th