"Reader’s users, while again, relatively small in number, are hugely influential in the spread of news around the web. In a sense, Reader is the flower that allows the news bees to pollinate the social web. You know all those links you click on and re-share on Twitter and Facebook? They have to first be found somewhere, by someone. And I’d guess a lot of that discovery happens by news junkies using Reader.

By killing the flower, Google could also kill the bees."

- What If The Google Reader Readers Just Don’t Come Back? (via ParisLemon)

#Tech #google #google reader #rss #curation #mg siegler #techcrunch #apps #news

"

Filters are a hook, a glittering lure. They gave many people a reason to try Instagram in 2010, but it wasn’t why people really stuck around and kept using the app. That had more to do with simplicity, speed, and being the right app at the right time.

Once the hook was in with Instagram’s filters in 2010, the true value of the network become immediately apparent to anyone willing to look: Instagram turned everyone into a photographer. The filters gave people like me courage to make that jump. It didn’t matter if our pictures were shitty and made only slightly less shitty by the filters. All that mattered was we were all now taking pictures. A lot of them. And we became interested in other peoples’ pictures.

And that mattered because for the first time, there was a social network that could communicate across all languages. Instagram became a visual language at scale.

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- I Love The Smell Of Sepia Tone In The Morning | TechCrunch

#tech #instagram #photography #mobile #iphone #apps #photo apps

Top 50 mobile apps account for 58% of total time spent on apps 

Figures released by Nielsen shed some light on just how competitive the app market is, and how difficult it is for newcomers to break into. Looking at the top 50 apps across iOS and Android, they found that the top 50 apps account for 58% of users total time accessing mobile apps. And [this chart] is 34% for the top 10 apps alone.

Top 50 mobile apps account for 58% of total time spent on apps 

Figures released by Nielsen shed some light on just how competitive the app market is, and how difficult it is for newcomers to break into. Looking at the top 50 apps across iOS and Android, they found that the top 50 apps account for 58% of users total time accessing mobile apps. And [this chart] is 34% for the top 10 apps alone.

#tech #mobile #apps #chars

Ifttt.com Lets You Hack Together Web Apps, Without Coding Skills 
Ifttt.com (“if this then that”)… lets regular web users connect sites and apps like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and Vimeo into rudimentary—but highly useful—personal mini-tools. Think of it as duct tape for webapps.
Ifttt.com is a marvel of intuitive interaction design—so simple a monkey could get it, but not so artless that an intelligent human would feel insulted. 

Ifttt.com Lets You Hack Together Web Apps, Without Coding Skills 

Ifttt.com (“if this then that”)… lets regular web users connect sites and apps like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and Vimeo into rudimentary—but highly useful—personal mini-tools. Think of it as duct tape for webapps.

Ifttt.com is a marvel of intuitive interaction design—so simple a monkey could get it, but not so artless that an intelligent human would feel insulted. 

#tech #news #apps #internet

Free ‘influencer’ search engine mPact launches, inadvertently insults everybody 
One of the funnier reviews I’ve read in awhile. “So if you’re curious about the most influential voice about cartoon vomit or drowning baby puppies, give it a shot. It might also point you in the direction of an actual expert on a legitimate subject, too.”

Free ‘influencer’ search engine mPact launches, inadvertently insults everybody 

One of the funnier reviews I’ve read in awhile. “So if you’re curious about the most influential voice about cartoon vomit or drowning baby puppies, give it a shot. It might also point you in the direction of an actual expert on a legitimate subject, too.”

#apps #tech #internet

Did you know you can kind of “friend” people on Color? Just click their avatar through to their history stream, click their avatar again there, and then choose “show more.” 
Of course, you do have to find them in the first place, whether by vicinity, friend-of-a-friend, or shared album link. Everyone listed by my avatar is someone I chose to “show more” of — no one randomly, er, algorithmically appeared.

Did you know you can kind of “friend” people on Color? Just click their avatar through to their history stream, click their avatar again there, and then choose “show more.” 

Of course, you do have to find them in the first place, whether by vicinity, friend-of-a-friend, or shared album link. Everyone listed by my avatar is someone I chose to “show more” of — no one randomly, er, algorithmically appeared.

#tech #color #apps #iphone