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Facebook Buys Instagram for $1 Billion

Facebook announced on their blog today that they are acquiring Instagram for approximately $1 billion.  Instagram currently has around 30 million users, although it’s likely that the majority of those users are also Facebook users.  The move is plainly an attempt by Facebook to maintain its dominance in the photo sharing space – their most significantly engaged [...]

Google Tech ‘All Up In Your Face’

Today Google unveiled “Project Glass: hybrid glasses that act as a miniaturized smartphone wired with hands-free access to a micro display, cameras, microphone, Web browser, and speech recognition.” Led by Googlers Babak Parviz, Steve Lee, and Sebastian Thrun, all from Google[x], the project seeks to continue the evolution of intermingling man and machine. “A group of [...]

+Everyone – Google+ Now Publicly Available

After twelve weeks of field trials, Google+ announced early yesterday that it is now [publicly] available. The news came at 9:00 AM PST on Tuesday in a blog post on Google’s official blog. Open signups were among the nine new Google+ features that were unveiled: “For the past 12 weeks we’ve been in field trial, [...]

The Life of Your Content on the Web: Link Decay and Distribution Strategy

I read an interesting study published by bitly recently that I both wanted to share and examine. The study considered the length of time that internet users remain interested in links that are shared across various vehicles, e.g., Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and the rate which that interested declines. Appropriately, the term dedicated to the phenomenon of a [...]

Keeping Your Quick Response Codes ‘Fitting’

A Quick Response Code (QR) is a type of barcode that can be read by smart phones and other dedicated devices. The code captures information, such as a website URL, and directs the device scanning the code to, in this case, the URL’s location on the internet. QR’s are used in a variety of ways. [...]