Seriously, Facebook is going to buy Instagram for $1 Billion! Yes, with a capital B! I can’t believe they are paying so much for a niche service, and one that Facebook can easily make obsolete overnight. If Facebook adds a few photo filters to their iOS and Android apps, they will pretty much put Instagram out of business, there’s just no more reason to use it. So it seems Facebook just bought themselves a bunch of photo filters for $1 Billion.

Personally, I don’t know anyone who uses Instagram, all photos in my circle of friends are mainly Facebook with a dash of Google+.

There’s an article on NYTimes that pretty much says WebOS was dead on arrival and has no real chance of success. The article points out that Palm’s choice of WebKit as the HTML rendering engine doomed it because it’s too slow. I can’t say I disagree, my TouchPad is a bit laggy, it’s just as smooth as an iPad. There was a rumor a while back that said HP got WebOS running on an iPad and it ran twice as fast as native WebOS hardware. If this rumor is true, it shows how far behind WebOS’s WebKit implementation is, since the iPad’s Safari is also WebKit based as well.

Now that WebOS is going Open Source, hopefully the community can whip it into shape and give it a speed boost. There really is a lot going for WebOS.