QR codes on headstones will link you to a Facebook-like page in a community of the dead.
Really. It’s social networking for the dearly departed.
That’s kind of awesome, weird, brilliant and creepy all at the same time. But I think the world might have gone just a little mad on Social and QR codes.
Filed under Awesome, Social Media, world news
Have you read it yet?
Willow Jane has a secret. She’s been in love with the Boogeyman her whole life. He comes to her in her dreams. Lately, he’s been speaking to her while she’s awake. She doesn’t know why he comes to her, or how it is that she loves him. She’s never even seen him. Well, until now.
She’s accepted crazy. She’s accepted isolation—heck, she’s even welcomed it. She’ll do anything to be with him. This stubborn, only child of artsy-hippie-activists packed up everything she knew, travelled across the globe, and moved into a dodgy stone cottage that leaves the grit of medieval on her skin every sunrise—all in the name of love.
But life has never been that simple for Willow. Instead of solitude and happy-ever-after, Willow is stalked by a motley crue of mysterious townsfolk who watch her. They know things. They believe things—things that are even crazier than Willow.
There is a truth that has long been forgotten. A truth that was concealed in a manuscript in the 12th century. An impossible truth. A truth that these townsfolk will do anything to protect. It is a dangerous truth that will blow Willow’s secret wide open. But, Willow is determined and resourceful. And, she just moved into town.
Ramona Quimby meets The Celestine Prophecies in this mix of powerful imagination and dogged determination celebrating all those defined as different.
Incorporating the real life mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript, Stonehenge, and the Glastonbury Tor; In a Celandine World double-knots mystery with the intriguingly powerful and long-lasting tales of Arthurian Legend, Spiritual Testament, and Elf magic—with shades of Alice’s rabbit-hole guiding the path.
Stop by Indigo this afternoon to get your signed copy.
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Woah… a blog post from Mark Zuckerberg:
I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook.
For years, we’ve focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we’ll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people based on your interests.
We believe these are different experiences that complement each other. But in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram’s strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook.
That’s why we’re committed to building and growing Instagram independently. Millions of people around the world love the Instagram app and the brand associated with it, and our goal is to help spread this app and brand to even more people.
We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience. We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks, the ability to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have followers and follow people separately from your friends on Facebook.
These and many other features are important parts of the Instagram experience and we understand that. We will try to learn from Instagram’s experience to build similar features into our other products. At the same time, we will try to help Instagram continue to grow by using Facebook’s strong engineering team and infrastructure.
This is an important milestone for Facebook because it’s the first time we’ve ever acquired a product and company with so many users. We don’t plan on doing many more of these, if any at all. But providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.
We’re looking forward to working with the Instagram team and to all of the great new experiences we’re going to be able to build together.
What do you think of that?
Filed under Social Media, Uncategorized, world news
