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Thursday, 27th August 2009

Augmented Reality

RWW Readers Agree: Augmented Reality is Important

Augmented Reality, technology that superimposes a layer of data on top of a user's view of the real world, is one of the hottest things around these days. Is it for real or is it just hype? We took a poll of ReadWriteWeb readers over the last 24 hours. With more than 400 responses, only 11% of you said it is just hype. 61% said you think it is…

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Facebook Backs Off Total Exposure Requirement to Use Apps

Facebook announced today that after facing legal pressure from the Canadian government, it will begin working on ways for users to choose which parts of their full profile they are willing to expose to applications they add on Facebook. Though the company talks about privacy all the time, the fact that it will take an estimated 12 months before…

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Social Networks: Boomers Feel Left Out

Even though baby boomers make up more than one quarter of all US Internet users, and even though the majority of this group spends over five hour per week online, a new survey by Burst Media found that only 14% of boomers feel that the content on the Internet is focused on people their age. An even smaller number of boomers (9.9%) thinks that…

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What Facebook Quizzes Know About You

The Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has put together a campaign to raise awareness of privacy issues surrounding Facebook applications, in particular quizzes. According to this group, the millions of Facebook users taking quizzes are revealing far more personal information to application developers than they…

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Wednesday, 26th August 2009

Teens Don't Tweet? They May Start Soon

"Teens don't tweet." Over the past few weeks, this fact has been reported time and time again by analysts, bloggers, and even mainstream media. Why the obsession with the teenage crowd on Twitter? Perhaps it's simply because adults can't believe that they, not teens, for once are responsible for the birth of an Internet phenomenon. But before all…

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