Despite the Google Plus announcements and the passionate responses to Facebook’s f8 conference, the biggest story to hit ReadWriteWeb this week was that Wadah Khanfar, the director of Al Jazeera, had announced his resignation after Wikileaks released documents that alleged he censored coverage under American pressure.
After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web – Location, The Real-Time Web and App Stores – plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for more.
Top Stories of the Week
This week’s Wikileaks incident with Al Jazeera proves that even former media partners aren’t safe from the organization’s radical, pro-transparency agenda. You can read a timeline of ReadWriteWeb’s extensive Wikileaks coverage here and here.
Google Plus Opens and Adds Features
Google Plus opened up to all, except Google Apps accounts, and announced several cool improvements to Adsense/Adwords, Huddle/Messenger and Hangouts in Docs. Will they outbox Facebook?
More on Google Plus changes:
- Google Puts +1 on Ads, Creates Google Plus Revenue Stream
- Google Plus Rebrands Huddle as Messenger, Adds Photo Sharing
- Why Google Plus Hangouts is the Killer App: Docs
- Google Plus Opens to All & Announces 9 New Features
- Google Plus & the Data Scientist Who’s Navigating It to Hell
- Google Plus Users 2-3 Times More Likely to Post Privately
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Facebook’s f8 Polarizes
At f8 on Thursday, Facebook’s announcements of Timeline, Read, Media Integration, and more, garnered much reaction both from the technology news world in general and, more specifically, from ReadWriteWeb readers.
More on f8:
- The New Facebook & the Alive Web
- Facebook’s New Timeline, Beacon & the Uncanny Valley
- Facebook’s Open Graph Is About Curating Your Life
- Facebook’s Timeline Allows You To Fit Entire Life In Profile
- Live Blog: f8 Keynote
- Deep Spotify Integration Brings Free Music to Facebook
- Facebook CTO: We Are Not Working On An App Store
- Reactions to Facebook’s f8 Keynote [infographic]
- Facebook to Developers: Get to Know Every User, All 800 Million
- “Read” in Facebook – It’s Not a Button, So Be Careful What You Click!
- First Look: Facebook’s New Timeline Design
- Facebook, You’re Not a Newspaper
Related:
- Big Question (Answered): “Facebook Timeline: Creepy or Awesome?”
- Big Question (Answered): “How Do You Feel About the Recent Facebook Changes?”
ReadWriteWeb Solution Series
Our popular Solution Series is back. This week we kicked off the first ReadWriteWeb live chat, The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization. If you missed the live chat, you can read the recap here and look for more posts and chats from the ReadWriteWeb Solution Series.
More ‘Don’t Miss’ Posts
- Windows 8 Spells Trouble for Linux, Hackintosh Users and Malware Victims
- Email Viewing Habits: Where Do You Read Your Email? [Infographic]
- Google Prepping to Put An End to Android Fragmentation
- App Genius Mike Lee Talks Product Engineering
- Microsoft’s Resurgence to Prominence
- The Future of Instant Customized Software
- MacBook Air Contest: Tell Us How You Won Management Over to Virtualization – Deadline September 30, 2011
ReadWriteWeb Channels
- Facebook, the New AOL
- Clues to HP’s Possible Future From Meg Whitman’s Past
- Windows 8 Spells Trouble for Linux, Hackintosh Users and Malware Victims
- OpenStack Diablo is a Quantum Leap for Open Source Cloud
- Hyper-V in the Windows 8 Client Will Take Some Adjustment
- Puppet Enterprise 2.0 Released
- Mozilla Proposes Half-Hearted Extended Release Cycle for Enterprises
- Judge: Neither Google Nor Oracle Has Defined an ‘API’
- Hilary Mason Wants To Get You Started With Big Data
- Google Prepping to Put An End to Android Fragmentation
- Two New Ways to Share Vids Online
- Appcelerator Announces Open Mobile Marketplace, the AppExchange for Mobile Devs
- Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region’s Entrepreneurship?
- Did Daily Deal Sites Jump the Shark? [Infographic]
- The Pay-It-Forward Culture: Silicon Valley’s Practical Generosity
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