nstagram has had a big, big, big last couple of weeks: Its Android app dropped at the beginning of April, and Facebook recently acquired the photo-sharing service for a whopping $1 billion.
The result of all this attention? A flood of new users, swelling Instagram’s user count up to 50 million.
So what does this mean for the fate of everyone’s favorite photo app? It’s probably going to get a whole lot more annoying.
Yup, those salad days are about to end, folks. That glorious period in which Walden-filtered snaps of Walden Pond mingled with Earlybird-tinged mountainsides and cats made classic with a dash of 1977-bred nostalgia. The end is nigh, we say!
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Steel yourself: We’re about to see an influx of photo-happy parents, drunken college kids and, horror of horrors, even more pheromone-crazed teens with accounts entirely dedicated to prepubescent boy bands.
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In preparation for the onslaught, we’re asking you, dear readers, to take stock of your own Instagrammed souls. Dig deep and evaluate how you can help stave off the horror that is blurry shots of food-caked children and one’s sparkly manicure.
We’re all guilty of Inane-gramming (verb: To thoughtlessly snap and share snaps with no regard for our followers’ feelings), and while it’s your inalienable right to share and share alike, you can probably agree that at least one in five of the transgressions below should be quashed.
Translation: Don’t do these:
1). Myspacing all over the place
We get it, Instagram is supposed to be a photo feed depicting your life and all the many interesting factions of it (I knit! I canoe! I collect severed heads in my freezer! Call the cops!). A self-snap is, consequently, totally OK once in a while — especially if you just got a new haircut/tattoo/head for your collection (seriously, your phone isn’t just a camera — call the cops). However, don’t you have any, I don’t know, friends? If not, you’re not going to make any pouting into the camera, your mien made even more morose via the Inkwell filter.
2). Flooding the feed
nstagram has had a big, big, big last couple of weeks: Its Android app dropped at the beginning of April, and Facebook recently acquired the photo-sharing service for a whopping $1 billion.
The result of all this attention? A flood of new users, swelling Instagram’s user count up to 50 million.
So what does this mean for the fate of everyone’s favorite photo app? It’s probably going to get a whole lot more annoying.
Yup, those salad days are about to end, folks. That glorious period in which Walden-filtered snaps of Walden Pond mingled with Earlybird-tinged mountainsides and cats made classic with a dash of 1977-bred nostalgia. The end is nigh, we say!
Facebook paid $1 billion for Instagram
Instagram: Future of mobile photography?
What’s the appeal of Instagram?
Steel yourself: We’re about to see an influx of photo-happy parents, drunken college kids and, horror of horrors, even more pheromone-crazed teens with accounts entirely dedicated to prepubescent boy bands.
Instagram’s passionate users wary of Facebook takeover
In preparation for the onslaught, we’re asking you, dear readers, to take stock of your own Instagrammed souls. Dig deep and evaluate how you can help stave off the horror that is blurry shots of food-caked children and one’s sparkly manicure.
We’re all guilty of Inane-gramming (verb: To thoughtlessly snap and share snaps with no regard for our followers’ feelings), and while it’s your inalienable right to share and share alike, you can probably agree that at least one in five of the transgressions below should be quashed.
Translation: Don’t do these:
1). Myspacing all over the place
We get it, Instagram is supposed to be a photo feed depicting your life and all the many interesting factions of it (I knit! I canoe! I collect severed heads in my freezer! Call the cops!). A self-snap is, consequently, totally OK once in a while — especially if you just got a new haircut/tattoo/head for your collection (seriously, your phone isn’t just a camera — call the cops). However, don’t you have any, I don’t know, friends? If not, you’re not going to make any pouting into the camera, your mien made even more morose via the Inkwell filter.
2). Flooding the feed
Technology keeps bringing us closer to a world where people can communicate freely across language barriers.
Google on Tuesday announced that its e-mail service, Gmail, soon will include an “automatic translation” feature for all users.
“The next time you receive a message in a language other than your own, just click on Translate message in the header at the top of the message,” the company writes in a blog post, “and it will be instantly translated into your language.”
The update will roll out in the next few days.
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The announcement comes on the heels of another language-related news blip from the Mountain View, California, company. Google said last week that its Google Translate service — which changes text from one language to another — handles as much translation work in a day as human translators could manage in a year.
“In a given day we translate roughly as much text as you’d find in 1 million books,” the company said.
That is, of course, pretty incredible. But all of this translation talk is also generating discussion about the weaknesses of current computer-translation technology.
Writing for The Atlantic, anthropologist Sarah Kendzior bemoans the fact that so many languages aren’t represented by Google.
“Since its inception in 2006, Google has added 65 languages from areas extending across much of the world, though two exceptions stand out: Central Asia and sub-Saharan Africa,” she writes. “No languages from Central Asia — such as Pashto, Usbek, and Uyghur — make the Google cut. Neither do the African languages Hausa, Yoruba, or Zulu. The sole inclusions from sub-Saharan Africa are Swahili and Afrikaans.”
Furthermore, accuracy is always a nagging and unavoidable topic of discussion when it comes to Internet translation services.
Like many people, I use Google Translate as a starting point for translation, but don’t necessarily trust that it will get everything right. It’s great for getting the gist of a news story that’s published in Japanese or Finnish, but if I need to write a formal letter to someone in one of those languages, I’d get human help.
Google acknowledges as much on a Web page about Translate:
Environmental organization Greenpeace released a new report says that Apple has been using environmentally unfriendly energy or dirty energy to iCloud service, Apple’s cloud computing facilities.
Greenpeace in a report released 18 April 2012, reveals as much as 55.1 percent for the service Apple iCloud energy comes from coal. This makes Apple as the worst among other technology companies.
Apple along with Amazon and Microsoft into three worst in the data center energy cleanliness index compiled Greeenpeace. In a report released 18 April 2012, it says Apple increasingly rely on coal as an energy component of its data center.
“Apple is less clean than Google and Facebook,” said Greenpeace spokesman, Dave Pomerantz, as quoted by AllThingsD.
The index compiled by Greenpeace, the index gained 15.3 percent Apple, Amazon and Microsoft’s 13.5 percent 13.9 percent. All three indexes significantly below up to 36.4 percent and 39.4 percent of Google. On the other hand, Dell has the highest index with 56.3 percent.
Greenpeace combines components of coal and nuclear energy supply data center. The lower use of both components, then the index will be higher or in other words, the net energy used.
However, the Greenpeace report was denied by Apple. Company founded by Steve Jobs claimed late their data center located in Maiden, North Carolina, the rate of 20 megawatts at full capacity. And more than half its supply comes from solar energy which will be built soon.
Greenpeace argued that behind Apple’s answer. According to Greenpeace, this Maiden facilities require 100 megawatts of electricity at full capacity by 55.1 percent comes from coal and 10 percent use of renewable energy.
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