We’ve added a lot of new options while viewing the photos full-screen like viewing the likers, location and tags because we feel you should know everything about the photos you’re viewing.

Also now you can tap any tag or user mentioned in a description or a comment to see the full details about it and a preview of the pictures it has before you subscribe to that feed.

Talking about subscriptions, now it’s really easy to explore Instagram by subscribing to any tag or user you see in the full-screen image viewer. Also if you’ve stacked up on subscriptions that no longer interest you there is now a delete button right next to the image gallery or map which will quickly remove that subscription

We hope you like the changes and hope to hear your feedback at contact at nextroot dot com

Instamap - a better way to browse Instagram pictures

We also made improvements in the big gallery. New photos are now pushed in a gallery as you browse it and ‘infinite scrolling’ works in this view as well.

The update also include huge stability improvements as we managed to fix some memory leaks. So go ahead and update Instamap today to enjoy the best Instagram browser for iPad and iPhone.

Another new feature added with this release is the possibility to favorite a songs from the end game screen. This way you can focus on the game while playing without having to deal with the Favorite button. In order to add a track to your Favorite list at the end of the game, you just have to slide song to the right and press the Favorite button.

Enjoy!

With SongMix you can play one of 12 genres in three challenging game modes (Time Attack, Arcade and Song Attack). Songs are chosen from the most popular artists of the moment so the game will always be up to date with the latest charts. Mark your favorite songs and purchase them from the iTunes music store directly from the app. Share your scores and achievements using Twitter or Facebook.

The game comes as a free download in 35 countries and includes:

• Time Attack mode – try to guess as many songs as you can within 3 minutes
• Two genres: Pop and House
• Gorgeous artworks
• Share your score and achievements on Facebook or Twitter
• Save the songs you like in a Favorite list

The Pro version also unlocks 10 new genres: Rock, Blues, Soul, Hip Hop, Indie, RnB, Oldies, Disco, Reggae and Jazz.

You can find more information about the app, on the app’s website. You can also download the press kit from here.

AppStore Link

We would like to send a big ‘Thank you’ to all our beta testers. We really appreciate your hard work!

Last weekend we attended the RestartRomania hackhaton in Bucharest. RestartRomania, a partnership between the United States Embassy and the NetSquared pillar of TechSoup in Romania, tries to demonstrate the power of using the web for social change projects in Romania.  Romania is proving to Central and Eastern Europe that online platforms can create serious offline change.

Over the course of the event more than 140 projects were submitted and nine of them got to the final. Our team got the ‘Ghid Practic Anticoruptie‘ (Practical AntiCorruption Guide) project proposed by Oana Dan, Cristina Stoica and Vlad Stoicescu. After a weekend full with Coke, Red Bull, celery and carrots we managed to create a little platform for reporting corruption cases. With the help of the Grey G2 team the site got itself a new identity – Dispari.ro.

The site allows you to report bribes you paid/you were requested to pay at public institutions in Romania or to see all the corruption cases reported. The site also contains a blog and a map that displays the corruption level in each of Romania’s counties. HotNews.ro covered this event and here is a little interview on this project.

We are currently working on a mobile version of the site to ease up the process of reporting bribes. This event was a huge challenge for us and we very happy to be a part of it.  The project will be present at a pitching event on the 4th of November and we wish the idea leaders the best of luck in winning this competition!

Howdy! It’s been almost 2 months now since our last blog post. Exciting things have happend in the meantime.

First of all, we took the decision to work on this startup full-time. We had a couple of things to sort out before taking this decision and that is one of the reasons we were not as active on this blog as we used to be. We now have one month since we moved in the Timisoara Software Business Incubator, where we now have a stable office.

Some updates regarding Instamap – it got featured in Gizmodo (as App of the Day for iPad on August 29) and CNET. We were very excited as this kind of news drive us forward. We are planning a new update for Instamap (probably in the next month) in order to be compatible with iOS 5. We also want to fix a couple of issues our users reported and maybe include some new features.

Last but not least, we’re pretty excited with the project we’re working on right now. We’re going to announce details regarding this new app in the following weeks. Meanwhile I can assure you it’s going to be a fun and entertaining app (at least that’s what we believe) so stay tuned!

Today we launched the 1.2 update for Instamap. Here are the new features included in this update:

• User profiles: this was one of the most requested feature and it’s finally here. Whenever you’re browsing through a set of photos you can tap the avatar of the author to bring in the profile view. This view includes information about the author  as well as two options (Subscribe and Follow user) and the last photos posted on Instagram.
• User subscriptions: along with the location, venues and tag subscriptions you can now create user subscriptions that allow you to see the photos in real-time.
• You can now follow somebody on Instagram straight from Instamap.
• We fixed the ‘Add tag subscription’ bug which occurred on some iPad devices.
• Other bug fixes and improvements.