Is EVERYONE Updating Their Features?

It sure seems so. I’m not sure which happened first (because my iPhone, Pickle, was having a teenaged meltdown last week during the stream of App updates) but all our favorite social networks made some serious updates and changes. Most notable among them, Facebook; I’m not going to go too deep into that one right now—Mashable has done an amazing job of keeping everyone in the loop with updates. As I hear it there is going to be a second wave of update in the next couple weeks.

The timeliness of all these changes really is astounding—On the 20^th, Instagram gave mobile photographers their new and improved, hi-res, user friendly Instagram 2.0. Reactions online seem to be positive, although some of the opinions of avid Instagrammers weren’t so great. My Foursquare told me there were some updates to the ‘lists’ section of the mobile app on the 20^th as well. Then the changes to Facebook hit, and all hell broke loose.

I’m just putting this out here to say, I’m watching how these social networks feed off each other. What does it mean for users? What does it mean for developers? I’m just saying, watch them, they kind of move together.

Check out this blogpost from  Sam Lessin at Facebook, it's a perfect post about profile timelines.
If you don't have Instagram (sorry Android users) here's a great Mashable 'Top Users' review.