It's the end of a big week here at ReadWriteWeb. For one, we just got acquired by SAY Media. As I sit here thinking about what happened in 2011 and what's to come in 2012, I keep in mind the simple fact that soon ReadWriteWeb will be operating under a...
The latest trend in smartphone apps is social video. That's because ever since Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 Billion, attention has focused on video sharing apps and whether one of them will win the next Zuckerberg lottery. The two leading contenders are Socialcam and Viddy. ReadWriteWeb's Alicia Eler profiled those...
Alicia Eler explores the not on facebook movement. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the...
As many of us prepare for some well-deserved vacation time, we're faced with working hard to get those last minute items done before we leave. I know that my email inbox is my last priority this week, so I have 20 or so emails in limbo just waiting for my...
Yesterday Raw Story noticed that Siri will find you many things, including Viagra, the meaning of life, and even give you a good place to stash a body, but ask for help locating some reproductive services and Siri will serve you abortion alternatives. In New York, for example, Siri finds...
Thursday, Facebook announced the addition of a free-form field to the Gender options area in Facebook profiles. The new "custom" option space allows users to write in any description they want—whether "dog-loving master of bro-associated domains" or "cheese-eating king." Facebook explains the change in a post on the Facebook Diversity Page,...
Jon Mitchell tells you what the point of Foursquare is. Richard MacManus shows you 10 gorgeous apps to drool over. Learn more about these stories and many more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-Up. After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key...
Perhaps the greatest single problem afflicting information technology in the enterprise today (outside of this lousy global economy) is how employees using their choice of devices to access corporate network resources impacts security. Although last month's RSA security conference ostensibly devoted its theme to the empowerment of individuals through "the...
In response to growing concern over comments Rush Limbaugh made last week, Netflix says they never purposefully advertised on his show. Sencha released Touch 2, which allows developers to write Android and iOS apps from either a Windows PC or a Mac. Alicia Eler wonders if passive social sharing is...
Flickr will launch a major makeover in its quest to return to its once young and sexy past, according to reports from BetaBeat. The new Flickr homepage will look more like the slick, image-only homepages of online visual pinboard Pinterest and photo-sharing app Pixable. There will be little white space...
Flickr will launch a major makeover in its quest to return to its once young and sexy past, according to reports from BetaBeat. The new Flickr homepage will look more like the slick, image-only homepages of online visual pinboard Pinterest and photo-sharing app Pixable. There will be little white space...
Alicia Eler explores the "Not On Facebook" movement. Jon Mitchell explains why Google Drive won't be a Dropbox clone. Path uploads your entire address book to their servers without permission. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news...
Every day I jump onto Facebook for my work, but honestly, I never use it as it was intended. If you send me a message or like my status, I might engage, but I never reach out to folks. My stream is full of interesting content about people I don't...
Richard MacManus explores the characteristics of great user experience design. Alicia Eler explains what Pinterest is doing that Facebook should emulate. David Strom notes the decline of corporate blogging. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories...
Alicia Eler looks at how Pinterest is impacting purchases. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed...
"We eat with our eyes," Iliana Regan told me, "and then it travels to our brain, and we love the sensation of the taste and the hot. I think it does a lot for the senses." Pretty steamy, right? Food is sexy. There can be no doubt. But just like...
In August, we mentioned that Turkey had backed away from mandatory Internet filtering. The initial plan had required each Internet user to choose from one of four filtering plans. This was wildly unpopular with Turkey's influential and very secular nerds and cosmopolitan types, especially in the capitol of Istanbul. Instead,...
On November 15, 2011, there will be a ReadWriteWeb Meetup near you! If you don't see a Meetup near you, be sure to add your city to the list.There are several meetups planned already in North America. Here are a few that caught our attention.The Official ReadWriteWeb Meetup in Portland...
Some people get their news from TV, some from radio. Some folks still catch up with the world by reading the morning paper with their coffee. Me? I tap into Google Reader and Twitter before even getting out from under the blankets. Everybody has a morning routine, and most of...
The first official ReadWriteWeb meetup in Portland, Oregon was so successful we decided to take it world-wide! Next Tuesday, November 15th, ReadWriteWeb is having a Worldwide Meetup. There's a great write-up on Elana Zak's 10,000 Words blog about the event. Basically, we want to get tech enthusiasts out and about...
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