How can I win this Contest.

Google honors Robert Doisneau, a renowned French photographer who pioneered in photojournalism with a Google Doodle on April 14, 2012, being that is the day he was born.

Doisneau is a well known French photographer and gave an unusual air of dignity and prominence to photography of everyday moments. His skill is shown in Le baiser de l'hotel de ville (Kiss by Hotel de Ville) a prominent piece in French photography.

Facebook plans to buys Instagr.am for an approximate billion in combined stock and cash. The deal is intended to close this quarter.

What is Instagram to Facebook? Instagram does have a large user-base but Facebook has a larger one. Mark Zuckerberg says that he wants to operate Instagram as a separate app and doesn't just want to integrate everything into Facebook.

Considering that Instagram garnered 30 million users in a year, it was bound to grow. Buying Instagram was a offensive and defensive move. Remember YouTube & Google in 2006? That's exactly what it seems like.

Also the way Facebook plans to operate Instagram sounds a lot like how Google runs YouTube.

More to come, stay around. Comment on your thoughts.

I know I haven't posted in over a week. Sorry :)

Well, it's that time of the year and there have been interesting incidents on the Internet for April Fool's Day.

Conan 0'Brien, the late night talk show host took over Mashable for $3500 and told Pete Cashmore to "Get Out." It didn't really happen but I bet a lot of us had a WT* moment when we first saw the post title, only to realize that it's April Fool's day.




Transcript:

“In a surprise move, Mitt Romney announced today that he is ending his presidential campaign and throwing hissupport behind Rick Santorum. The move shocked observers, including Senator Santorum, as Governor Romneyseemed poised for a decisive victory in Wisconsin.The governor, however, said he concluded that he has ‘nochance’ to win the general election in December and that a Santorum candidacy in 2012 would be in t‘best interest of the party.’”

Read the full article from Short Form Blog.

YouTube joined in on the fun by introducing its new "innovation" the YouTube Collection. The collection was advertised to deliver videos to your house in different formats on a daily basis. It even included a video. Go "order" your YouTube collection now>>

From Tech Pier's sister blog:

With Megaupload's closure in January, many people started to worry that Pirate Bay would soon face closure. Pirate Bay fixed that. They moved from their .org domain to the .se domain which made harder to seize by the U.S. government since the .se domain is under Swedish jurisdiction. Compared to Mega Upload, Pirate Bay is doing much better. Of course, Pirate Bay is in court but the Web seems to support them. Even I am a fan.

Pirate Bay has received a lot of legal threats from U.S.-based companies such as Apple, Dreamworks, Microsoft et cetera. Their responses are merry, mocking and pretty funny to read. But to make their point clear, they state with clear seriousness that their website is based on Swedish laws and therefore they don;t have to uphold U.S. laws. Despite this, many of their servers were confiscated by police in Stockholm.

But Pirate Bay learned the consequences of this (they were offline about three days) and they converted to hosting magnet links. Now, you can download the site it's only 90 MB.

Although, the Pirate Bay is facing some serious legal trouble they are confident that they are doing well and even want to go to the Swedish Supreme Court with their trial. But Pirate Bay hasn't lost its mocking demeanor. It even lashed out at Hollywood with this cartoon:


With the course of events that happened in its nine-year-life, the Pirate Bay persevered like a cockroach. I think it's safe to say that it won't be going anywhere for a while but enjoy it while you have it.

Even Anonymous is on the bandwagon. Our Twitter page has their tweets. Also Anonymous has some tweets for #Porn4Prom (sorry for the late notice). Every few seconds a person tweets demanding justice. This case has angered millions and making its way into social media.

On Wednesday, activists wearing hoodies marched on Trayvon Martin's. Tracy Martin, pictured above was also dwelling on the loss.

The increased attention this topic has been receiving might lead to Zimmerman being charged for hate crime. What do you think about this trend? Type your responses below.

Author's View (this point of view does not necessarily represent this blog as a whole)
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