Instagram

• Instagram isn't just for sharing your pretty photos with friends. For some clever entrepreneurs, it's become a free marketing platform and even the impetus to start a business.
(Mashable)
• Breakfasts everywhere went undocumented on social media Saturday morning because photo-sharing site Instagram is still down after a line of powerful storms caused mass power outages across the Midwest  and Atlantic Seaboard on Friday night.
(CNN (blog))
• As of 11:21 PM EST Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia went down, due to severe thunder storms in the area. The Washington Post reports torrential rains, "scary winds," lightning and massive power outages in the D.C. area.
(Forbes)
• In order to force themselves to pay attention to each other during dinner at a restaurant this past spring, Dan Rollman, 39, and six friends took their smartphones and stacked them tower-like in the center of the table.
(Wall Street Journal)
• Facebook updated its Messenger and Pages mobile apps, and Instagram also gave its mobile app an update, making it more compatible with Facebook.
(Los Angeles Times)
• Instagram is the place to be if you want to look into your fave celebs' charmed lives. It's like a mini-storybook where you can browse nonstop to find out what the stars are up to. A picture can paint a thousand stories.
(Inquirer.net)
• The benefits of social media channels like Twitter and Facebook are abundant for small businesses looking to increase brand awareness, drive website traffic and engage with customers.
(ChicagoNow)
• Last night, it was Cloud versus clouds -- and nature won. Last night, a thunderstorm tore across eight states on the East Coast, killing four people and leaving some 4 million without power.
(Yahoo Finance)
• The big news over the weekend was an Amazon cloud storage outage that took down services like Instagram, Pinterest, and Netflix in the wee hours of Saturday morning.
(PC Magazine)