This week, Marshall Kirkpatrick answered a simple question – “What Happens When You Deactivate Your Facebook Account” – and it quickly became the top story of the week. It turns out it’s all about manipulating emotions. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: The Internet of Things brings RFID to the forest; Twitter released a real-time curation feature; and we looked at what Tagwhat means for augmented reality browsers. Read on for more.
Story of the Week: Deactivating Facebook
- What Happens When You Deactivate Your Facebook Account
- Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook
- Consumer Reports: Half of Social Network Users are “Oversharing,” Endangering Privacy
- New App Helps Keep Facebook’s Hands Off Your Data
- iPad Killing Netbooks Already?
- All-Star Team Backs StackOverflow to Go Beyond Programming Questions
More coverage and analysis from ReadWriteWeb
Mobile Web
- iPad Killing Netbooks Already?
- Mobile Now Accounts For 10% of Topix Traffic – And It’s Mostly From Small Towns
- Visa to Launch Contactless Mobile Payments for iPhone
Augmented Reality
- Tagwhat Leaves Read-Only Augmented Reality Browsers Behind
- Layar Introduces Layar Stream to Help You Find Popular Nearby AR Content
- Live Video Access for iPhone OS 4.0 Has AR Developers Excited
More Augmented Reality coverage
Augmented Reality for Marketers and Developers: Our Newest Research Report
We’re pleased to announce ReadWriteWeb’s latest premium report, Augmented Reality for Marketers and Developers: Analysis of the Leaders, the Challenges and the Future. This report will help you develop a sophisticated understanding of Augmented Reality (AR), the mobile and Web technology that places data on top of a user’s view of the physical world. The research included will help you decrease your AR development time to market by learning from the first wave of early adopters. AR offers a new marketing and product paradigm for a high impact, high value customer experience. More than 1,000 AR campaigns were kicked-off last year and we expect to see many more in 2010. In this report, we profile key AR development companies, their campaigns as well as development lessons learned. For more information or to buy the report, visit here.
Internet of Things
More Internet of Things coverage
Data Portability
More Data Portability coverage
Real-Time Web
More Real-Time Web coverage. Don’t miss the next wave of opportunity on the Web supported by real-time technology! Get ReadWriteWeb’s report, The Real-Time Web and its Future.
Check Out The ReadWriteWeb iPhone App
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ReadWriteStart
Our channel ReadWriteStart, sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark, is dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs.
- OpenCourseWare: Opportunities for the EdTech Entrepreneur
- Help a Startup Out: A Craigslist for Startups
- Media Relations 101 for Your Startup
ReadWriteCloud
Our channel ReadWriteCloud, sponsored by VMware and Intel, is dedicated to Virtualization and Cloud Computing.
- The Reverse of Spam: WordPress Integration with SalesForce
- Blockbuster Video Launches API to Open the Web, Mobile, Set Top Boxes and More
- Amazon Pursues The Feds and the Potential Billions in Cloud Computing Services
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