The Social Hour 55

The Social Hour Episode 55

The Social Hour 55: Facebook Buys Instagram for a Billion Dollars!

Amber & Sarah discuss Facebook's shocking Instagram acquisition, Silicon Valley gets a reality show, Social Fixer for a better UI, Foursquare follies, Bump Pay, & more!

Top Stories

• Lungs recipient a social media phenom - Twitter helps Campbell recover

• "Silicon Valley" reality show ruffles feathers
• Randi Zuckerberg defends show, concept

SOCIAL TIP: Social Fixer (browser extension)

SPOTLIGHT: Social Media Infographic - How is social data valued?

VIDEO

• @effendunn has a question about geolocation do's and don'ts

MEME OF THE WEEK

• Meme machine Ryan Gosling uses Twitter acct for 200 hidden Easter eggs

RAD OR FAD?

• Bump pay

(how Bump works from their FAQ: There are two parts to Bump: the app running on your device and a smart matching algorithm running on our servers in the cloud. The app on your phone uses the phone's sensors to literally "feel" the bump, and it sends that info up to the cloud. The matching algorithm listens to the bumps from phones around the world and pairs up phones that felt the same bump. Then we just route information between the two phones in each pair.)

Sponsors

Squarespace

• ad times: 00:48 to 01:02 & 26:11 to 30:25

Ford

• ad times: 01:02 to 01:15 & 51:40 to 54:10

Production Information

• Edited by: Bryan
• Notes:

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