WIRED IN: Twitter Invests in Social TV, iPad128GB, Full Instragram Feed Surface Pro & More!

By Kareem El-Nagdy On Feb 6, 2013

>> Twitter Buys out Social TV giant Bluefin

Earlier this week, The social networking giant, Twitter, announced its aquisition social TV analytics firm Bluefin Labs.

For Twitter this is proof that the company is doubling down on its efforts in social TV. In December, Twitter partnered with Nielsen to create the Nielsen Twitter TV Rating using the SocialGuide platform Nielsen acquired in November 2012.

>> Apple Rolls out the iPad 128GB

Yesterday, Apple added it’s latest addition to the tablet market, the iPad 128GB, making it the largest storage tablet device out there (a long with the Surface Pro launching in 3 days – see below).

The new tablet is a bit procey and ranges between 800 – 1000 USD. Other than a bigger storage space the new tablet is identical to the all the other 4th generation iPads.

>> Full Instagram Feed on the Web

After years of closing off Instagram to iOS and then to Android, you can now finally view your Instagram feed on the web and in real time!

You were able to see your photos before at set URL, but never your feed. Instagram is slowly moving from a small community to large social network with more public appearances.

I wouldnt be suprised if they start creating social plugins for it on websites. But I guess we’ll see.

>> Google Drive Hosts Websites

Google announced yesterday that it will allow Web developers to share hosted websites via Google Drive. All you have to do is store your HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files, and then share a link to your starting HTML file (i.e index.html).

All you’ll have to do is add your files to a folder and share the url with anyone and it’ll serve as a web server.

This will definetly gonna spin a new angle to the usage of Gogle Drive and attract a lot of people to start using it more than competitiors such as DropBox, Box, etc.

>> Surface Pro

So Windows 8 has been kind of a comeback from Microsoft to the world on the OS level, the Surface RT tablet wasnt received warmly though as much as expected.

The Pro version of the device is set to launch on the 9th of Febraury and has been getting a warmer welcome and it’s predecessor. Techcrunch said it’s proabably Microsoft’s best product to date!

Check out the full video review below: –