Pavel finally got hisCity Bike pass which arrived with fantastic marketing content, including a nifty guide to biking in NYC and a confusion QR code, leading to the question, are QR codes dead?

Jessica has discovered a new app when a similar one followed her on Instagram. For those paying attention, this is the first time in three weeks that her app recommendation has not come from Homer App, but it is related to cats.

Tumblr has stepped up the brand analytics game with announcing a partnership with Ditto Labs to help track brand presence in images on Tumblr.

Twitter has made another Facebook-esque move in experimenting with a timeline algorithm which manipulates the tweets shown on a user’s timeline to show content fav’d by others, including tweets from individuals the user is not following.

Google is attempting to create a child safe version of the internet which would cater to the under-13 crowd.

Make up transformations. This is what they traditionally look like:

And this is what the internet has turned them into:

Official NYC Biking Guide via NYC DOT

Weather Whiskers

Tumblr Teams With Ditto Labs To Track Brand Posts via Media Post

Tumblr Partner Will Now Scan Photos for Clues About Brand Affiliation via Mashable

Is Twitter’s “favorite” controversy its first step on the road to ruin? via Pandodaily

Twitter experiments with “News Feed” style algorithms, threatens to ruin everything via Pandodaily

Ditto Labs Unlocks Brand Data Hidden Inside the Millions of Images Uploaded to Tumblr Each Day via Yahoo! Finance

Tumblr Teams With Ditto Labs To Track Brand Posts via Media Post

Twitter Starts to Change the Central Logic of Its Service via The Atlantic

A Simple Guide to Twitter Favs via Time

Google’s getting ready to open its web services to kids via Engadget

Google eyeing kids’ Web, according to report via The Hill