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Instagram is worth €1bn? What?! In a rare moment of unity, both Conn and Michele are in agreement. Watch out! It’s a big fat tech bubble and it’s gonna blow!
Google Plus gets a new look! Social Media Awards longlists are out – and they’re long!
Check out Memolane. It builds a timeline of your aggregated social media activity going back years. It’s actually much cooler than it sounds!
We salute Red Hat. Some questioned whether you could build a business on free software? 13 years after their IPO, they’re turning over €1bn.
ICANN screw up on the deadline for new gTLD applications – not good enough, says Michele. Meanwhile ICM Registry (who brought you .XXX) announce plans for .sex, .adult and – in case you were in any doubt – .porn.
Finally, you thought you were safe from malware in Mac-land? So did the 600,000 Mac users whose machines were compromised in a botnet thanks to the Flashback Trojan. Detection tools are available from F-Secure, among others.
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I guess we were both right, Michele, about Adobe availability on Mac. Adobe Premiere video editor has always been available on Mac – but what I had in mind was the audio editor: Adobe Audition, which is only recently available on Mac http://mashable.com/2010/11/09/adobe-audition-mac/