2012-04-13
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2012-04-09
Instagram. Facebook. Billion.
Today, we couldn’t be happier to announce that Instagram has agreed to be acquired by Facebook.
Providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.
The total consideration for San Francisco-based Instagram is approximately $1 billion in a combination of cash and shares of Facebook. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close later this quarter.
2012-03-27
[Social Network] Island
- muttley: I remember ages ago I tried to get someone to buy an island with all of Google's money and establish a new country
- muttley: Except Google Island would be oddly boring and no-one would socialise - except for the civil servants who would have obviously fake "fun" during mandatory periods in the very prominent yet empty common areas
- muttley: Facebook Island would be chaotic and everyone would be out partying so much they wouldn't realise that the civil servants were rummaging through their stuff selling it to third parties
- muttley: Everyone on Apple Island would be very good looking and most stuff would just work perfectly. Except if you ever tried to step off the path you'd be tasered. And fat people would mysteriously disappear.
- hitherto: muttley: on Twitter Island all conversations would be mercifully short, but everyone would be yammering on about so much stuff you'd have no real idea of what was going on...
- hitherto: The other problem with Facebook Island: there'd be a very inviting-looking landing dock for you to reach the island, but a 30% chance that it's actually mined and will blow you to smithereens when you try to land.
2012-03-14
post/19297492792
2012-03-12
post/19192109606
One of the things that fascinates me is the way a lot of young people seem to use Tumblr, which is basically as a positive, aspirational alternative to the social networking institution they’re accustomed to: Facebook. Rather than forcing them to represent themselves as they are, which I think is Facebook’s major goal, Tumblr allows them to represent the romantic self (or selves) they wish to be. I think this is a big part of the intense emotional attachment a lot of people seem to have to Tumblr.
Facebook is currently #1 in terms of time spent online, but Tumblr recently became #2. I think this is because they both appeal to intense human desires, but I would argue that off the two Tumblr appeals to the more positive.
”2012-02-09
post/17325392551
From Gizmodo’s piece Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane.
It might be splitting hairs, but I think the Flickr account is for the White House, and is therefore in Obama’s role as President, while the Instagram account is more of a campaign piece, in his role as candidate for re-election. Still, that paragraph makes its point.
2012-02-07
post/17233759458
Plaza de George Orwell, Barcelona, by karramarro. George Orwell’s home, near Wingate by Steve Ullathorne via Mark Birch.
Edit, 2012-04-02: Apparently the second image is not real, but is a deliberate work of art (via, via).
