This week's top story was Marshall Kirkpatrick's analysis of Facebook's third biggest advertiser, which, allegedly, was a Bing affiliate scam. After the story broke, Facebook denied any connection to it and Bing shut it down right away. It's a story that got more convoluted as the various players responded to the allegations - which always makes for fun reading.
In location news, visitors to 9-11 locations in New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania can use an app to listen to oral histories from first-responders. The top real-time Web story was that Collecta is ending its API. And one of our biggest Internet of Things stories of last year is finally here: IPv4 addresses are about run out. In 10 days, to be exact. Read on for more.
This week's top story was Wikileaks' call for Sarah Palin's arrest. It was a story that showed how linked two seemingly unrelated topics are: a national tragedy - the attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords - and the ongoing international Wikileaks saga. The news that Foursquare will host a hack day was our top location story. In real-time Web news, Topsy launched publisher-friendly Twitter widgets. And for those iPhone users depressed over this week's Verizon news, Audrey Watters reported that personal Wi-Fi hotspots are reportedly coming to all iPhones. Read on for more top stories.
This week's top stories were a grab bag: Twitter and NoSQL, open educational resources, mobile video and a blogging forefather reinventing blogging. Sounds like a typical week here at ReadWriteWeb. Foursquare's launch of a Jersey Shore badge (yeah, it freaked us out, too) was the top location story. In Internet of Things news there's a Rutgers University project that's using Scratch to make household appliances easily programmable. And credible rumors of a Verizon iPhone announcement rounded out the week's mobile news. Read on for more top stories.
It's the last Wrap-up of 2011! The top story of the week was a big one: Just in time for the holidays when millions of people are using Skype to connect with loved ones, the company's network cratered, dropping from 20 million connections to about 200,000 in a matter of hours. Ouch. We continued our year-end series on top products and developments, picking the best big and little companies of 2010, as well as the most promising company in 2011.
This week we discovered that Yahoo was "sunsetting" Delicious, the social bookmarking service. Does that mean shutting it down? Selling it? Who knows, but Marshall Kirkpatrick's lament for the potential loss was our top story. As part of our annual year-end series on top products and developments we looked at Richard MacManus' Top 10 Web products of 2010 as well as the year's top 10 Internet of Things developments. And in our coverage of location issues, we looked at what Foursquare's search for a data scientist means. Read on for more top stories!
We started this week with a quote from EFF's co-founder: "The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops." It's a battle that has enthralled hundreds of thousands of our readers and made our coverage of WikiLeaks the top stories of the week here at ReadWriteWeb. As part of our annual year-end series on top products and developments we looked at how online reading habits have changed over 2010 as well as the year's top RSS and syndication technologies. And in our coverage of the real-time Web, Audrey Watters reported on a new visualization tool that gives users a real-time view of what scientists are reading. More top stories after the jump.
Mozilla's new programming language (called Rust) may have been the top story of this last week, but our annual year-end series on top products and developments was almost as popular. Richard MacManus kicked off the series with the top 10 semantic Web products; we also looked at the top startups and top culture of tech stories.
In our coverage of other Internet trends we found a new app store for iPhone jailbreakers. In Internet of Things news, tech culture writer extraordinaire Curt Hopkins came up with my favorite story and headline of the week: Your Next Computer May Be Made of... BRAINS! Read on for more top stories.
A new iPhone and iPad jailbreak always top our list of the week's biggest stories and this week was no different. Spoiler if you haven't read the post yet: It's a tethered jailbreak for iPhones, which can be a real pain (something I found out the hard way). In our coverage of other top Internet trends, Microsoft made waves in the location community when it hired the world's leading geo-dissident. It's almost December and that means the beginning of our year-in-review stories. This week Richard MacManus looked at the rise of e-readers and light blogging. Read on for more of this week's top stories.
This was a good week to be an Android developer, a bad week to be a woman on Facebook, and - if you had $360,000 on hand - your first chance to buy up 50% of the Twitter firehose. (As of right now it's flowing at about 1,000 Tweets every second.) In our coverage of other top Internet trends, get ready for some location-based cola wars; Sarah Perez reported on how 4G may cost more for Verizon's mobile customers; and real-time push notifications came to Twitter. Read on for more of this week's top stories.
Our top story of the week was that the iPad, that perennial newsmaker, is getting its first major software update. In our coverage of other top Internet trends, the battle for location enlisted some real armies; Richard MacManus wrote about how software is more important than sensors in the Internet of Things; and in real-time Web coverage, the UN plans on open sourcing global crises.
