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About Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick is a Senior Writer at ReadWriteWeb. He lives in Portland, Oregon, along with many other members of the RWW team. He joined RWW in 2007 and was VP Content Development before branching out to a new venture. Marshall says he loves to write on ReadWriteWeb because it's a chance to tell the stories of a disruptive time in history and he hopes that disruption will lead to a better world. He specializes in creating new ways to use feeds and social graph analysis to support the writing of the whole team.

Recent Articles by Marshall Kirkpatrick

  • LinkedIn Eats Rapportive: Let's Hope the Magic Lives On

    Several years ago, I spoke on a panel at an advertising industry conference with Om Malik and Michael Arrington. Arrington, my former employer, was bored by the conversation and mocked me throughout it. One of the last questions we were asked on the panel was what technology we were most excited about at the time....


  • What Feminists Are Saying About the Facebook IPO

    Facebook has announced what will likely be the tech industry's biggest Initial Public Offering of stock ever. What do practitioners of feminism, a philosophy centered in the experiences of women, have to say about the political economy of the world's biggest social technology company? They've raised a number of interesting questions so far. It seems...


  • How YouTube is Part of a Global Economic Transformation

    The Internet may have grown up first in the United States, but it's a global phenomenon now. The same can be said for the fast-growing body of educational content on the web. YouTube announced a new batch of partners that were added to its Education Channel today and noted that nearly 80% of the viewership...


  • Amazon S3 Reports Staggering Growth in 2011

    Amazon Web Services just reported jaw-dropping growth in the number of objects stored in Amazon S3 year over year. "As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon S3. We process over 500,000 requests per second for these objects at peak times," AWS Evangelist Jeff Bar wrote on the company's...


  • Twitter's Censorship Policy: Three Unanswered Questions

    In June of 2009, leading up to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising, the Chinese government blocked access by its citizens to Twitter, Flickr and a number of other US-based websites. Social media being already widespread throughout the country, perhaps the Chinese government feared the possibility of events like unfolded elsewhere 18 months...


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