Photo-sharing services like Instagram have become some of the most popular of all mobile apps, and today Twilio launched a new service that could help a much larger swathe of developers tap into that trend: picture messaging.
Future food hypothesizers have already predicted it as a 21st-century hipster foodie trend, picturing culinary faddists munching on "celebrity cubes" made from the cells of today's biggest stars or spending a romantic evening dining on their favorite parts of their lover. .
Within hours it had gone viral becoming the top trending picture on Twitter under the hashtag #KiyiyaVuranInsanlik (humanity washed ashore).
Despite this north-south trend, the picture was more mixed for individual cities: four cities outside the south (Coventry, Newcastle, Aberdeen and Nottingham) made the top 10, while Gloucester and Swindon ranked in the bottom 10.
But an annoying new trend puts picture adjustments in a hard-to-use menu instead of giving them dedicated buttons.
Based on current data trends, the pictures painted of our 2025 world were, not surprisingly, often bleak.
A recent lawsuit in Maryland is the latest event bucking the trend by painting a picture of a shelter manager's no-kill obsession that led to alleged acts of unthinkable cruelty to animals.
We know there's a trend for sending pictures with sexual content, but the extent to which that's happening is very difficult to fully understand.
In the coming year, the big story in technology is likely to be cellphones, from the use of new standards in Europe to the introduction of shiny new handsets to the growing trend of downloading pictures, music, games and text.
