Founder of 4Chan, Chris Poole, aka moot, gave a particularly strong talk at Web 2.0 Expo, in which he asserted that Facebook and Google were doing it wrong, and that they should emulate Twitter's stance on identity.
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It was announced this week that a Wikileaks volunteer's Gmail data, including his IP address and his contacts list, was handed over to the U.S. Government upon request. This, plus FSF founder Richard Stallman's final (we hope) insensitive blow to the memory of Steve Jobs, are our top news stories this week at ReadWriteWeb.
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This week the internet said goodbye to the incomparable Steve Jobs. The staff of ReadWriteWeb covered some of his best moments, and his worst. Though he has passed on, his impact was large, and we will not soon forget Apple's founder. RIP Steve.
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Opening Google Plus to everyone gave them a tremendous traffic boost. With a 1269% increase in visits, Plus traffic increased to 15 million U.S visits, up from 1.1 million the week before. That news, plus Facebook's re-design, the Kindle Fire launch and a look at a very cool Wikipedia QE addition, rounds out our top stories this week at ReadWriteWeb.
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The Future of the Internet, Flickr's new Geofences and Google AppEngine developers are up in arms in this week's ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.
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By far the biggest news this week is Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO of Apple. Long one of the most fascinating and enigmatic technology leaders, Jobs' resignation had us ruminating on the things to learn from his leadership, what entrepreneurs should disregard, and just how large of an impact this detail oriented CEO had on our world.
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Big news from the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference this week. Data scientists Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden (who is also a ReadWriteWeb contributor) revealed that iPhones running iOS4 are keeping an ongoing record of your location in an unencrypted and unprotected file. Privacy concerns plus security concerns plus anything to do with Steve Jobs' company equals the most popular story of the week.
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One of our top posts this week was Richard MacManus' look at the future of the camera. We all know how smartphones integrated cameras. "Could we be about to see the inverse - cameras integrating smartphone technology?" he asked. The story is part of our ongoing series looking at what it means to consume and produce media in post-PC-centric world.
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Our top story this week was Audrey Watters' report on a survey that asked students how they use technology in the classroom. Almost 300,000 students from kindergarden through 12th grade - along with 43,000 parents, 35,000 teachers, 2,000 librarians, 3,500 administrators - took part in the study.
The results show that parents and teachers' desire to either provide or improve access to digital tools in the classroom is strong. And teachers and administrators are confident they're doing a good job using technology to enhance how students learn. But fewer than half the kids agreed. And it's no wonder: The majority of administrators surveyed have no interest in incorporating one of the most common computing devices in the world - the cell phone - into their schools this year.
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It was two short, short years ago that the Obama administration thrilled data and transparency wonks by launching Data.gov, USASpending.gov and a number of other ambitious sites. But as Marshall Kirkpatrick reported in our top story this week, Congress is now planning to eliminate the sites' funding. There's a push to save them (check the story for the updates), but I have a sinking feeling that it was just too good to last.
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