While I was in Florida this week, winter arrived in Chicago. In October. Global warming, my butt. It gets earlier and earlier every year…and stays later and later. It's all good, though. I love the colder temperatures. It means hats, scarves, sweaters, and boots. It also means riding my bike on the trainer so if [...]

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Famed angel investor, Digg co-founder and Milk CEO, Kevin Rose, recently posted a public status update to his Facebook profile stating, "so far Facebook has the best follower (subscriber) to click ratio.. more tests/results soon."Rose provides the following click-through stats for his Burning Man link after 1hr, 10PM PST.

Twitter: 2,053 clicks (1.2M followers)Facebook: 2,203 (220k subscribers)G+: 350 (129k followers).

Though this is the result of only one test with the feature being brand [...]

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Photo sharing app Instagram is one of the major success stories from the app world, notching up a cool million downloads within three months of launch in October 2010. Today it has over 9m registered users and well over 10m downloads under its belt, despite only being available on the Apple App Store.Sometimes an app is just so sweet, you can't help but keep talking about it, even indirectly. For example, we've covered Web-based alternatives to Instagram, put Instagram up against PicPlz, looked [...]

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