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At Coffy Coffee, hipster-like coffee place for wired youngsters. Lovely atmosphere though. Columbia Heights, Washington, DC. (Taken with instagram)

Kindle, Evernote, Vimeo and more get optimized for the iPad’s Retina display
Donald Melanson, engadget.com

As we saw the iPhone 4’s release, a mas­sive bump in screen res­o­lu­tion means that plen­ty of apps need to be updat­ed to fully take advan­tage of all those extra pix­els, and today has seen a few big name ones get opti­mized for the new iPad’s…

Real Name Registration Threatens The Lively World Of China’s Microblogs
By Tricia Wang and An Xiao Mina, wired.com

The time­line on Sina Weibo, the coun­try’s pop­u­lar Twitter-like ser­vice, is filled with pithy com­ments about “Bei­jing Fash­ion Week,” chron­i­cling the com­ings and goings and sar­to­r­i­al choic­es of the elite.

But the com­menters aren’t…

Instagram Tops 25M Users
Todd Wasserman, mashable.com

Insta­gram has topped 25 mil­lion users, becom­ing the largest exclu­sive­ly mobile social net­work in the world, accord­ing to a report.

Dirk Singer, the head of U.K. social media agency Rab­bit, claims on his Lies, Damned Lies &…

Carnival, Venice. Timeless city. Unique treasure. (Taken with instagram)

San Carlo opera theatre, Naples. I am always amazed at seeing talent and passion at their best, at any age. So energising. Great Uto Ughi. (Taken with instagram)

How To Be A Better Writer
Haydn Shaughnessy, forbes.com

In the open­ing pages of the novel­la Half Moon St, Paul Ther­oux‘s char­ac­ter My Van Arkady says there are only 5,000 peo­ple in the world. Only 5,000 that mat­ter. It’s an arrest­ing open­ing but I won­der would it cut the mus­tard…

Happy Valentine’s Day, Tech Bloggers
Mat Honan, gizmodo.com

There’s been so much hate and self-righteous indig­na­tion in tech blog cir­cles late­ly. Name call­ing. Ugly accu­sa­tions. Petty bick­er­ing. It’s even divid­ed good friends, broth­er against broth­er. Can’t we all just get along?

I want to st…

Google Is Painting A Big Fat Target On Dropbox
Matt Rosoff, businessinsider.com

Google is get­ting close to launch­ing Drive, an online stor­age ser­vice that would com­pete with Drop­box and Microsoft’s Sky­Drive.

That’s accord­ing to Amir Efrati of the Wall Street Jour­nal, who reports that the ser­vice will launch in “we…