FEATURED APP

Instapaper – http://www.instapaper.com

This week Instapaper founder Marco Arment, decided to leave his post as CTO of Tumblr to focus on Instapaper full time. The company, which is self-funded, has over 800k users (200k of which are active). Instapaper is a read it later bookmarking tool that allows you to quickly mark a page on the web to read later. You can read your bookmarked pages on the web or on the Instapaper iPhone and iPad apps.

NEWS

Facebook downtime – worst in 4 years
Foursquare partners with Runkeeper – moves beyond the checkin
Social Media Week – today marks the end of Social Media Week 2010

DISCUSSION

iTunes Ping – will it catch on and is it important?
Digg – the ongoing revolt following their recent design changes, is Digg still relevant?
Facebook – the release of The Social Network is almost here (October 1st). What is to be expected?
Colleges use of location based services to recruit students and in increase interaction on campus.