App Scours Instagram To See What’s Going On Nearby, Right Now

A brilliant new social network scours Instagram for real-time events. If only the team had the resources to make their service operate in real time. Yelp is a great way to find a reliable bar, but how’s the band tonight? Are people having fun? What’s their drink special look like? These are the questions that Now--a free iOS app--wants to answer. Recently released in its 2.0 form, Now scours Instagram’s API for trends going on around you and assembles these trends into Instagram collages. So when you load Now, you can see the hottest events going on around you in photos, geotagged on a map. Then you simply scroll through each event’s photo collection--much like you would Instagram itself--and their locations are automatically updated on the map.Read Full Story