Marco Arment announced on his blog tonight that he has sold “a majority stake” of Instapaper to Betaworks, the company that resurrected Digg last year.

I’ve said some negative things about Instapaper in the past, but I’m thrilled with today’s news. Marco, thank you for creating Instapaper, a wonderful app that helped to kickstart the read later craze, and thank you for being wise enough to hand it over to someone else when it got too big to handle on your own. Congratulations, Marco and Betaworks. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for Instapaper.

Awesome movie, really funny! Loved it so much I made a GIF.

Better than the first, in my opinion. That’s probably because we get to see the future, which to me is much more interesting than the past. I started to get a little confused with all of the split timelines going on, but I enjoyed the movie.

Also particularly intrigued that everyone in 2015 was wearing computer glasses. Not far off ;)

Fun and entertaining! Not as sci-fi as I thought it would be, and there were a few plot holes with the “changing the course of history” stuff. Overall a pretty good movie!

“Companies tend to get comfortable doing what they’ve always done, with only a few minor tweaks. It’s only natural to work on the things you know. Minor changes make things obsolete.”

He also said Google is shifting their focus from minor, incremental updates and products to “big bets” like Fiber and Glass.

I like Larry Page. He knows what he is doing, and he’s got an eye on the future, which is extremely exciting. I’m more excited about Google’s future products than I am about any of the stuff rumoured to be brewing in Cupertino.

Pay attention, Apple.

I’ve been chewing on this one for a month now, and I finally got my thoughts down. Entirely based on conjecture, but an intriguing and exciting possibility! 

Path is meant to be a visual timeline of your day. What are you watching? Listening to? Looking at? Thinking about? Who are you hanging out with? It allows you to literally chart the path of your life. What better device to capture exactly what you’re doing as you’re doing it than one that can see and hear what you’re doing at any given moment?

It’s nearly a month old now, but MG Siegler’s review of the Nexus 4 is definitely worth a read. He cites a number of reasons for liking the Nexus 4 nearly as much as his iPhone, including the increasingly polished and speedy OS, the solid hardware, and the tight integration of Google services.

I’m planning to order a Nexus 4 very soon, and MG’s review helped solidify that choice. I agree with most of his points, and the things he likes about the Nexus 4 are the exact reasons I’m drawn to it. As a longtime iPhone user, I’m becoming more and more interested in seeing just how green the grass is on the other side.

Mark Hurst on Creative Good:

Google Glass is like one camera car for each of the thousands, possibly millions, of people who will wear the device – every single day, everywhere they go – on sidewalks, into restaurants, up elevators, around your office, into your home. From now on, starting today, anywhere you go within range of a Google Glass device, everything you do could be recorded and uploaded to Google’s cloud, and stored there for the rest of your life. You won’t know if you’re being recorded or not; and even if you do, you’ll have no way to stop it.

Oh for crying out loud! Paranoid conspiracy theorist much? Look, I understand the potential privacy concerns of something like Google Glass, but let’s examine this logically.

First, in order to take a photo or record a video using Google Glass, you have to literally ask Glass to do so by speaking a voice command out loud. That’s a less-than-ideal way to take incognito spy shots of someone or something within earshot.

Secondly, while I don’t believe this feature is currently included in Glass, Google could and should include a small LED light on the front of the glasses to indicate that the camera is in-use. Much like every other webcam or video camera on the market today.

Now, let’s say that Google does not put an LED indicator on the front of Glass, and that there will be a way to snap photos or record videos without voice commands (though viciously tapping away at the side of your head is also a little suspect), I assume there would be some serious legal, antitrust violations at play if Google were to hypothetically turn each and every individual wearing Glass into a roaming data collection robot.

My point is that, at least for now, we need to trust Google. Gasp! I know. It’s shocking. But we can’t go through life worrying that every technological innovation is being created to exploit us. And if, by some twist of fate, Google does have some nefarious plan for Glass (like the one Hurst outlines in his editorial), then we also need to trust that our governments will step in and intervene.

More details are emerging about Apple’s forthcoming watch, which is targeted for release this year, according to a Bloomberg report this morning… That’s perfectly in line with what we’ve heard about the watch project, which we’re told is being led by [Jony] Ive himself with some 100 engineers under him. Interestingly, we’re also told that Apple’s chosen to rework the full iOS to run on the watch instead of building up the iPod nano’s proprietary touch operating system…

A 2013 iWatch launch makes perfect sense to me. Though Apple has been trying hard for the last few years to get their TV product on the market, they can’t do it right now. There are little to no obstacles in the way of launching a watch, which would get Apple into the up-and-coming wearable tech space. As Nilay points out, investors are anxious for Apple’s next big thing, and if the TV can’t happen right now, they’ve got to do something.