Social Networks How Hyperconnectivity Affects Young People Would you mind putting down your smartphone for a moment to read this? Thanks, we really appreciate it. A new study released today by Pew sheds light on the lurking, albeit very real notion that we all not-so-secretly fear: there are actual consequences to the hyperconnected lifestyle that many 21st century millennial Americans live! But calm… Social Alicia Eler View comments
Facebook Facebook Needs to Stop Being Total Boobs Earlier this month, Facebook decided to ban breasts, err, photos of women breast-feeding. Indeed, images of a mini-person sucking from the breast of a lady were too much for the social network to deal with. So it took the obvious route, banning all breastfeeding images. Breastfeeding activist Emma Kwasnica, along with other mothers, took to the… Social Alicia Eler View comments
Location Foursquare Dumps Google & Goes Open-Source Foursquare just made what it called "a little announcement", but it's really not little at all. It's switching away from the Google Maps API to OpenStreetMap. For the map images, it hired MapBox, a start-up that makes pretty maps out of OpenStreetMap data. Starting with foursquare.com, foursquare's maps now use MapBox Streets. Foursquare cites… Jon Mitchell View comments
Mobile World Congress 2012 Windows 8 Informed by Mobile Revolution The software world is becoming an interconnected Web of services tied together within the cloud. Applications used to be stand-alone objects that did not communicate with each other and were designed to do one thing and do it well. Then came the mobile revolution. And the cloud. More than anything Microsoft has ever produced, Windows 8 is… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
Search RWW Hangout - The Future of Search Each week (more or less), Jon, Robyn and other ReadWriteWeb team members hold a Hangout On Air on our Google+ page to take a break from the grind of reading and writing and talk face to face about the tech stories of the moment. We post prompts for what we plan to talk about, and we invite anyone in our audience to join in. The conversation streams… Jon Mitchell View comments