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Editor's Note: Welcome To The New ReadWrite

I'm Dan Lyons, the new editor-in-chief of ReadWrite, and today we are relaunching the legendary ReadWriteWeb tech site with a new name, a new design and a new approach.

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Government

Russia's New Censorship Law Diminishes the Entire Internet

Russia's new Web blacklist is only the most recent of an alarming series of authoritarian moves to muzzle networked communications. National governments bent on censorship are eating away at the global, public Internet.

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Browsers

The Web vs. the Cloud: Which Metaphor Survives?

Ask yourself this: Would you install ReadWriteWeb as an app? You might, if you were convinced that it did something useful for you, and if you didn't have to pay much (or anything) for it. You may already have installed Dropbox, and services like Pinterest and LinkedIn are now smartphone apps. Can you foresee a time when you won't need a browser to…

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Government

The CISPA Amendments We Really Need

The goal of CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act – the latest cybersecurity legislation pending in the House of Representatives – seemed so simple in the beginning: From time to time, security companies need to provide information about possible threats to government authorities so they can take action. When you write…

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Dot Obits

The Legacy of Commodore Founder Jack Trameil

Quite a few people have been retroactively credited with the invention of the personal computer. One man who never claimed credit himself, but who would certainly be listed among Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Clive Sinclair, Adam Osborne, and John Roach as original creators of the personal computer industry is Jack Tramiel - who passed away today at…

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Op-Ed

The Cloud Can Never Be Personal Enough

Facebook says its Timeline "tells the story of who you are." That's lofty wording. It assumes that you share "who you are" on Facebook. It also assumes you share enough of yourself to make Facebook Timeline "the" definitive "story" about you. Similarly, Path version 2 calls itself a "journal." While both these apps are ostensibly for sharing…

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Op-Ed

I Quit Path

There are too many apps. "There's an app for that" has passed the point of cliché and become some strange kind of axiom. Path is the perfect example. We have an app for staying in touch with friends: Facebook. We have an app for sharing pretty photos: Instagram. We have an app for checking into places: Foursquare. We have approximately 9,182…

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Facebook

Why Politics and Social Networks Shouldn't Mix

You have a friend on Facebook who posts non-stop about all things politics. This friend is either a die-hard progressive, a staunch Republican or a total schizophrenic mixed bag who only posts outrageous political commentary to piss off other users. With the Republican primaries in full swing, you may see more political-minded posts tend to…

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Op-Ed

Introducing Your Hyperconnected Online-Offline Identity

Yesterday we wrote about the positive and negative consequences of living a hyperconnected life. One becomes more accustomed to multitasking, shuffling through personal and work-related tasks, and a heightened ability to pick out nuggets of information that are actually useful. On the downside, one can become obsessed with the Internet, and find…

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Apple

Where Google & Others Crossed the Line

Last week's online privacy fracas-of-the-week was about the revelation that Google (and other advertisers) had learned to circumvent Safari's settings to let third-party cookies track users more easily. Apple's browser's default setting messes with the way advertisers track users. The gist is this: Cookies are set by the site you're on, but some…

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Editor's Note: Welcome To The New ReadWrite

Russia's New Censorship Law Diminishes the Entire Internet

The Web vs. the Cloud: Which Metaphor Survives?

The CISPA Amendments We Really Need

The Legacy of Commodore Founder Jack Trameil

The Cloud Can Never Be Personal Enough

I Quit Path

Why Politics and Social Networks Shouldn't Mix

Introducing Your Hyperconnected Online-Offline Identity

Where Google & Others Crossed the Line