‘Jobs’ movie trailer hits Instagram

If you thought 60 seconds is too long to watch a movie trailer, the creators behind Steve Jobs’ biopic Jobs are tapping into your short attention span by releasing a 15-second trailer on Instagram, a first on the photo- and video-sharing service.

This comes hot off the heels of Instagram allowing photo and video embedding for their Web version. What do you think of this new marketing ploy?

Fare splitting done right with Uber

Uber isn’t just helping you hail cabs. The app’s latest update will help you split your taxi fare fairly with friends. You just need to input who you’re splitting the bill with and Uber will do the work for you.

Instagram Web allows photo and video embedding

It won’t be long until you start seeing Instagram photos and videos on news sites and blogs all over the internet since the photo- and video-sharing service now lets you embed content to other sites from its Web version. A share button is now visible under the comment button which provides you with the embed code.

Snaplay aims to become the “Shazam for images”

You know how Shazam makes it easier for you to look for that elusive song? Snaplay, a reverse images search app, wants to make it easier for you to look for videos and music online using photos. Acting much like a QR code reader (sans the QR code), Snaplay lets you take a photo of an album cover or movie poster or the like and have the app bring back related media content.

On the video side, it integrates with YouTube; while for music, it integrates with Spotify or uses songs you’ve stored on your device.