Don't Bother with Instagram; Here are Five Better Alternatives for Android

Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2012 5:36 PM EDT (Lifehacker)
Seeded by Michael Sautter

I'll come right out and say it: I'm not a big fan of Instagram. And no, it's not because iOS users have had their underpants in a wad over the Android release, but because for me, it really doesn't live up to the hype. Here's why, and more importantly, here are some just-as-goo …

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Insta-Backlash: Twitterverse Overreacts To Facebook's Instagram Acquisition, Users Delete Accounts

Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2012 5:34 PM EDT (TechCrunch)
Seeded by Michael Sautter

Not everyone is happy about Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram this morning, it seems. In an apparent insta-backlash, a bunch of folks are tweeting about their intentions to delete their Instagram accounts now that Facebook has tainted their trendy social network wi …

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Netflix creates pro-SOPA super-PAC

Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2012 5:29 PM EDT (RT)
Seeded by Michael Sautter

As United States lawmakers continue to consider anti-piracy legislation in Congress, they’ve found an ally in Netflix. Now the streaming content giant has created its own super PAC, whose main goal is to promote SOPA-like legislation.

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Bad Comedic Timing for 'Neighborhood Watch' Movie

Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2012 1:17 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Seeded by Magic Moose

In the normal course of things a Hollywood movie about space aliens wouldn’t be affected by newspaper headlines. ut things aren’t entirely normal these days. In recent weeks executives at 20th Century Fox have been quietly scrambling to distance a summer comedy, & …

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Apple: The End Is Nigh

Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2012 6:08 AM EDT (Monday Note)
Seeded by Michael Sautter

The end of iPhone/iPad One Size Fits All, that is. So far, Apple has managed to sell more than 300M iOS devices using only a single size for the iPhone and another for the iPad. I’m becoming convinced this can’t last much longer. Soon, I believe, we’ll see a r …

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What you need to know about the Flashback trojan

Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2012 6:05 AM EDT (Macworld)
Seeded by Michael Sautter

We’ve entered a new era in Mac security, but there’s no need to panic. . . . Flashback is the name for a malicious software program discovered in September 2011 that tried to trick users into installing it by masquerading as an installer for Adobe Fl …

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Apple patent could lead to face-based user switching in iOS and beyond

Seeded on Sun Apr 8, 2012 7:04 AM EDT (Ars Technica)
Seeded by Michael Sautter

Apple continues to consider ways to enable easy user switching and control for iOS devices using facial recognition, which may eventually lead to facial unlock features in the iPhone or iPad. A recently published patent application details an automatic user-switching system whi …

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Pinterest's Pernicious Terms of Service

Seeded on Sun Apr 8, 2012 7:00 AM EDT (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Seeded by Michael Sautter

The photographer/lawyer, Kirsten Kowalski, was concerned about her legal liability because she often "pinned" professional photographs (her own and others) to her Pinterest board. She deleted one of her Pinterest boards after looking at Pinterest's Terms of Service because thos …

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The world's 7 worst internet censorship offenders

Seeded on Sun Apr 8, 2012 6:54 AM EDT (Global Post)
Seeded by Michael Sautter

The UN has declared access to the internet a basic human right, along with food and clean water. But the Web's information can be used both to fight tyranny and to enforce it. These are the countries with the worst Web freedom records.

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Report: Pinterest is third most-visited social site

Seeded on Sat Apr 7, 2012 10:43 PM EDT (CNN)
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Think back six months. You probably never had heard of a little website called Pinterest. Now it's the third most-visited social-networking site in the United States, according to a report released Thursday by Experian Marketing Services, a digital marketing firm. Pinterest, …

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