Instagram blog reports:
Today, we’re excited to announce that — in addition to square posts — you can now share photos and videos in both portrait and landscape orientation on Instagram.
An end of an era …
Month: August 2015
One billion people …
.. visited Facebook in a single day! I have a hard time wrapping my head around that. I remember the Web before Facebook existed. I remember when Facebook reached a total of billion accounts. And now, we have a billion active daily users. Wow!
Apart from everything else, the amount of engineering that went into creating the platform, growing the features, and keeping it up and running is beyond comprehension.
0 to about 11,000 employees in 11 years. Wow!
NASA trolling
Europa or frying pan? One of these is Jupiter’s moon Europa, the rest are frying pans. pic.twitter.com/XqQn7uUwjW
— NASA Europa Clipper (@EuropaClipper) August 21, 2015
Via kottke.org.
Classic DOS games … in the browser
I am speechless! Oh. My. God! Look at this beauty! A whole bunch of classic DOS games like Doom, Dangerous Dave, and Golden Axe that you can play in the browser.
I’m literally crying happy tears right now…
YouTube Gaming Launch
YouTube launched YouTube Gaming – a YouTube built for gamers. The blog post describes:
On YouTube, gaming has spawned entirely new genres of videos, from let’s plays, walkthroughs, and speedruns to cooking and music videos. Now, it’s our turn to return the favor with something built just for gamers.
It’s a good thing they mentioned these different genres, because they way I saw it was mostly kids watching other kids playing games. Apparently, that’s a thing these days (see Twitch, for example). That’s something I can’t understand with my son – instead of actually playing the games, he is watching other people playing. What’s that all about?