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Instagram confirms that its service is down for some people due to a ‘server issue’ [Update: now back]

Jun07
by on June 7, 2014 at 2:59 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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UPDATE: About two hours after what appeared to be a worldwide outage, it looks like Instagram’s service has been gradually restored, at least in many areas of the US. At about 8:58 pm PT, images started to move through the stalled servers. There’s still no official word yet from Instagram, but the photo app has removed a tweet announcing problems on its service (as seen below), which should mean that the issues have been fixed. Our original story follows. If you had ideas about sharing your Friday evening or weekend pictures on Instagram with your friends, you were likely disappointed. The…

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The first Vine from space is a thing of wonder

Jun07
by on June 7, 2014 at 1:15 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Shareables, Videos

Here’s one small step for man and one giant leap for social media: Astronaut Reid Wiseman has posted the first Vine video from space. As you’d expect from an out-of-this-world Vine, the clip is truly epic. Wiseman, who apparently deserves the name, time-lapsed a single orbit around the Earth from the International Space Station while riding parallel to the terminator line, which separates day and night on our beautiful planet. The result is mesmerizing. I could watch this for days, which is fitting because, after all, you’re really just watching the earth rotate around the sun. In case you’re wondering, the first human tweet…

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