More and more of us are spending more and more of our time staring at screens; And it’s amazing how emotional we’ve started to get about pixels. I’m pretty sure the last thing I see before I die will be one of those blasted spinning rainbow cursor balls. And I’m not alone (good call on the Morrissey, guys)

Instagram has been iPhone-only for so long, and its executives have been so coy about their plans for other platforms, that it can be hard to believe the company will ever release an app for Android. And no, it still hasn’t announced a launch date, but if you’re an Android owner who wants the app, you should go to this page and sign up right now. Earlier this month, when TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis interviewed co-founder Kevin Systrom at South by Southwest, he teased the audience by waving around the Android app on-stage

Editor’s Note:   Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme  and the author of  Essentials of Venture Capital .

Editor’s note: Rico Andrade a former executive producer at Transvideo Studios and Picturelab . Follow him on Twitter @andrade_rico . Two years ago, Jason Kincaid wrote a short but influential post titled “ The Underutilized Power Of The Video Demo To Explain What The Hell You Actually Do .” He said: During my time at TechCrunch I’ve seen thousands of startups and written about hundreds of them

Editor’s note:   Jay Fulcher is CEO of video technology company Ooyala . He previously contributed a column about “ Fear And Loathing In Online Video .” Follow him on Twitter @jbfulcher. While hosting this year’s Academy Awards, Billy Crystal cracked, “I prefer the big screen… which is my iPad.” The remark was an ironic counterpoint to the evening’s theme, “Let’s go to the movies,” itself a half-hearted attempt to resuscitate flagging U.S

The  Inside Network Job Board  is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the  Inside Network Job Board , including positions at: Symphony Publishing Group ,  Nickelodeon ,  Environmental Defense Fund ,  SponsorPay , High 5 Games ,  Checkpoint Studios ,  TinyCo , Legacy Interactive ,  Addmired , PopCap ,  King.com ,  BrightRoll  and  Index Middle East Ltd. Co.

Editor’s note: Tim Chang is a managing director at Mayfield Fund . This is the first in a three-part series about the Quantified Self movement

The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — welcomed CBS News Online editor in chief Dan Farber back to the West Coast and the comfort of the Gang clubhouse. Dan was one of the Gang’s earliest members, gracing the IT Conversations podcast number 2 or 3 or so. Now, as the Web gets overrun by a sea of apps, as @scobleizer autofilters the firehose in realtime, as we go 15 minutes before we realize @jtaschek hasn’t moved a muscle (locked up), as the networks desperately stonewall live to iPad, the Gang feels like fun

Earlier this week a startup named Geeklist was called out on Twitter for a promotional video which apparently featured a woman dancing around in her underwear. (I say “apparently” because the video has since been made private.) The Geeklist founders acknowledged that this was problematic — and then, inexplicably, they went right off the rails . Click through that link to see some jawdropping bad judgement; they responded to the woman who complained by Twitter-cc’ing her employer(!) while calling on her to “take it offline” and explaining they “weren’t cool with the angry tone .” While their own haughty tone, of course, was perfectly acceptable… At which the geekosphere erupted.

Editor’s note:  Contributor  Ashkan Karbasfrooshan  is the founder and CEO of  WatchMojo , he hosts a show on business and has published books on success.  Follow him on Twitter @ashkan