Will Facebook Halt Instagram’s Gratification to the Cloud? I’m sure that by now you’ve heard the news that Facebook has purchased Instagram. Even bigger concern for us cloud aficionados has recently been made news by Data Center Knowledge, one of Instagram’s place in the cloud. Will Facebook scoop it up from its roots there, or will the social network behemoth mercifully allow it to stay? Assuming you haven’t yet been made abreast of this news, allow me to contextualize all of this for you. Instagram might indeed be the world’s most popular cloud application. Established in the fall of 2010,
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Will Facebook Halt Instagram’s Gratification To The Cloud?
by Jeff Norman on April 17, 2012
in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Facebook, IT, News, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology
The Social Cloud: Promising Social Media Startups for 2012
by Muz on January 2, 2012
in Cloud Computing, Computing, Images, Reviews, SaaS, Social networks, Technology
The Social Cloud: Promising Social Media Startups for 2012 While Facebook continues to dominate the Social media scene and rumors abound as to its next acquisition (probably Digg according to some people) many more startups are joining it by providing services somewhat different from the usual. Promising Cloud Based Social Media Startups to watch for in 2012 include Tumblr, Pinterest and Wooplr. Tumblr While it may seem like Tumblr.com is just another blog platform (or in their own words: microblogging) like WordPress and Blogspot, in reality it is much more like a social sharing site for pictures, text, media, video
