Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo has become the latest high profile western figure to begin microblogging in China after he began using Tencent weibo yesterday. Though Twitter is the microblog of note for most of the world, the service is blocked in China leaving the weibo (“microblog”) services offered by Sina and Tencent to battle for the market. Tencent’s weibo has seen huge growth in users this year, with the company now reporting that it has 233 million registered users, that’s an increase of 33 million since June alone,as iChinastock reports....

If you’ve ever had to embed a document into a page, then you know what a pain it can be. While there are options out there to make it easier, the majority of them either screw up formatting pretty severely, or they’re based in Flash and can’t be viewed across all platforms. Crocodocis fixing the problem with a single, integrated, HTML5 solution. Starting right now, you can embed documents to your heart’s content across the Internet, allowing anyone on any device with a modern browser to view your work exactly as it should appear....

Since its inception, Instagram has been a mobile-first app. While it has a website where you can look at your feed, watch Stories, and chat with your friends over DMs, you can’t post photos. Well, that’s about to change as the company is rolling out a desktop upload feature to select users. Multiple people on Twitter noted that they’re seeing this function appear for them on Instagram’s desktop site. Now we’re talking@instagram...

The app store field is getting more and more crowded by the minute with Amazon, Google and Apple all vying for your purchases and allegiance. All of these app stores have one major thing in common; the idea that if you buy it here, you can’t take it with you. Developers Cooperative, a group of developers with the crazy idea that you might want to use an app you purchase once on any platform you own, are fed up with this and are introducing a new app store, one that lets you take your apps wherever you go....

There are currently a few solutions available for cross-posting status updates to Google+, Twitter and Facebook includingStart Google+andExtended Share. What hasn’t really been addressed is the ability to cross-post images. While the Chrome extension,Publish Syncdoes offer this feature, it comes at the price of spamming all your followers with a recommendation of the service, without your permission. If you really want to cross-post images to the three social networks, MobyPictures has analternative solution, which anyone can use regardless of their browser of choice....