Gil Jimenez

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

The richest one-year-old in the world just became Instagram. At only 500+ odd days, it was just acquired by facebook. Instead of competing, they outright bought them. Is this the race for a threat to major corporations? Let’s build the next X to be bought by Y? What happened to the Teslas of the world?

Anyway, tons of articles were written about it, and one of the better ones that I read was this Washington Post story.

That hive mind has hemmed and hawed about the over-widgeted Facebook infecting the clean-and-simple Instagram, but the applications are made for each other. They deserve to be together. They are both tools with which we define and refine our self-images, and they both allow us to edit and filter the world as we see fit.

As well as the “my favorite app sold out” kind, like this guy.

Facebook, a company with a potential market cap worth five or six moon landings, is spending one of its many billions of dollars to buy Instagram, a tiny company dedicated to helping Thai beauty queens share photos of their fingernails. Many people have critical opinions on this subject, ranging from “this will ruin Instagram” to “$1 billion is too much.” And for many Instagram users it’s discomfiting to see a giant company they distrust purchase a tiny company they adore — like if Coldplay acquired Dirty Projectors, or a Gang of Four reunion was sponsored by Foxconn.

Awesome ‘new’ technology that syncs your dev, probably through Adobe software, to multiple devices. Aside from my snark quotes, the important part of this old tech is that it finally seems flushed out. And over multiple platforms!

Shadow enables you to pair any number of mobile devices with your desktop machine and then browse the same page on all of the devices simultaneously. Any changes to the page made on the desktop machine are instantly reflected on the paired mobile devices.

Great article about the future of images and the impact of high-resolution (read: retina) displays.

The high-res future is coming fast and the web needs to evolve just as fast.

Please stay tuned.