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All your bases belong to me. Facebook buys Instagram.

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Facebook Buys Instagram for $1 Billion by Emily Price

Facebook snapped up the hugely popular photo-sharing app Instagram Monday, for roughly $1 billion in a combination of cash and stock.

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Facebook Buys Instagram For $1 Billion, Turns Budding Rival Into Its Standalone Photo App by Josh Constine and Kim-Mai Cutler

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Facebook snaps up Instagram for $1B by AP

On the surface, that’s a huge sum for a tiny startup that has a handful of employees and no way to make money. But the lack of a business model rarely dampens excitement about hot tech upshots these days. As Facebook has shown, itself without ads or revenue in its early days, money goes where the users are.

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Insta-growth: Instagram for Android hits 5M downloads in 6 days by Sean Ludwig

“This is an important milestone for Facebook because it’s the first time we’ve ever acquired a product and company with so many users,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote yesterday.

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Instagram Android / Apple

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The Facebook-Instagram Deal Could Be Sad News For Amazon by Julie Bort

In his blog announcing the acquisition, he said, "We will try to help Instagram continue to grow by using Facebook’s strong engineering team and infrastructure."

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Instagram illustrations by: Cole Rise

Ideas begin on Paper — a new iPad app that allows capture of your ideas as sketches, diagrams, illustrations, notes or drawings and share them across the interwebs. Superb imagineering by FiftyThree.

Beautiful website too.

Gotta love Yuna Kim opening index is a pure minimalist delight. Using color keyed geometric shapes which serves as direct access to projects which you get a preview upon mouseover. If you pick one of the top section – the project will slice-up the upper part and open a content panel. Site is all coded in HTML5.

Her interactive reel is brilliant – using 3 iPads to do so. Must see.

BERG \ is an independent UK based ideas studio. They design seamlessly across a wide range of media such as print, screen and environment. They are known to push boundaries. As proof a stellar portfolio.

Love the logo using the backslash to complete the ‘R’ letter.

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Sliding door section shows a preview of their recent work – click on – and takes you to the case study.

Check it out.

Innoiz via Jean-Christophe Naour just launch an application called Poly™ (for ipad). This project is inspired by the Triangulation invented by the mathematician Boris Delaunay in 1934.

While the process behind is complicated, the result reduce an image to its essentials, creating the illusions of triangles, prisms and pyramids.

See how it works.

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Draw with points and turn your pictures into geometric array of colours w/ Poly™.

Last Clock is engineered and designed by Newmedialogy as a visual memory of the last 60 seconds, the last 60 mintues and the last 12 hours in an never-ending process which was 10 years in the making. It is a personal piece of media art that keeps you in factual time, human time and remote time.

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Last Clock App for everyday context.

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Be ready to be amazed!

Jobs Was Right: Adobe Abandons Mobile Flash, Backs HTML5 by Mike Isaac

In an abrupt about-face in its mobile software strategy, Adobe will soon cease developing its Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers.

“HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively,” Adobe VP Danny Winokur said in a clear reference to Apple’s rejection of Flash support on its dominant iOS devices: the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

“This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.

And with that, Adobe signaled the end of the Flash era on at least the mobile web, as Steve Jobs predicted.