A recap of what I wrote this week

As you might have noticed, I have removed the RSS feed from GigaOM on the site in an attempt to make the site more streamlined. Here are highlights from the posts I wrote earlier this week that might be worthy of your attention.

• Google Hangouts gives the Alive Web a big boost
• Why the Skype-Facebook deal is awesome for Facebook (my Om Says newsletter)
• When will the (traditional) telephone hangup?
• Instagram growth and engagement is zooming