This week's chart-topping story was Sarah Perez's look at the new unlike button on Facebook's News Feed. In our coverage of other top Internet trends, new data shows that the location-based check-in craze is far from mainstream; Kinect could control your Internet of Things; and in mobile Web news, Dell, Bank of America and Citigroup are reportedly ditching Blackberry.
It's pretty common for our live blogging of Apple events to be the top story of the week, but this week Microsoft finally had its day with Frederic Lardinois' coverage of the PDC Keynote event. In Internet of Things news, Richard MacManus explained how to connect your car to the Web With AutoBot. On the mobile news front, Apple overtook RIM to become the fourth largest mobile vendor in the world. And in ReadWriteCloud we wrote about a call for a radically different data center.
This week's top story was Gene Simmons versus, well, something that so far is much stronger than his KISS Army: Anonymous. In Internet of Things news, Nukotoys wants to plug Silicon Valley into the toy market. On the mobile news front, Square made amends with the iPhone 4. And don't forget about our latest free report, The Age of Exabytes: Tools & Approaches for Managing Big Data.
You know those Wi-Fi networks called "Free Public WiFi"? Clearly that question has been bugging our readers, too, because they made our answer the top story of this week. In mobile news, TweetDeck arrived on Android. And as part of our continuing series on product innovation, we looked at how Instapaper was created and its plan to add social features.
This week we also launched our newest report, The Age of Exabytes: Tools & Approaches for Managing Big Data, which explores everything from innovations in storage, to analytical tools that can glean insights from big data in near real-time. Download it for free here.
Earlier this week, Facebook kept us on the edge of our seats wondering what their big announcement was going to be. Evidently it did the same for you because our coverage of that event was our top story of the week. In real-time Web news, Google tested mind reading (aka full page previews). Our coverage of augmented reality lead us to the news that integrated facial recognition is coming to smartphones. And as part of our continuing series on product innovation, we asked Caterina Fake how Hunch went from Q&A to guessing your preferences.
Ever turn down $80 million? Digg once did and Kevin Rose's admission of that moment was our top story in this week's rankings. In Internet of Things news, the makers of customer loyalty cards - which are powered by film-thin batteries - added high-power check-in capabilities. And as part of our continuing series on product innovation, we took a look at Ponoko's Sci-Fi "Making System".
This week we were proud to launch our newest channel: ReadWriteMobile. Led by Sarah Perez, this channel will cover the strategic business and technical implications of developing mobile applications. We hope its expert analysis and discussion will help you create, launch and refine your mobile apps. Read on for more.
Digg, and its sharp decrease in traffic, was our top story this last week. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: A big new wireless spectrum for the Internet of Things opened; there's a new augmented reality childrens fantasy novel; and as part of our continuing series on product innovation, Betaworks CEO John Borthwick explained his philosophy. Read on for more.
Just like last week, our live blogging - in this case the launch of the redesigned Twitter.com - was readers' favorite post of the week. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: Disney proposed standards for Internet of Things toys; iPhone apps can be augmented reality browsers; and there's a real-time guide for TV on the Web. Read on for more.
Our live blog of the Google Instant Search event was, well, instantly readers' favorite post for this week. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: We learned how the Internet of Things may be used against us; how playtime could be the road to the big time for augmented reality; and how Seesmic Desktop became a platform for all things real-time. Read on for more.
For the second week in a row, Digg topped our most-read-stories list. Also this week we launched a brand new channel - ReadWriteHack - and continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: We learned how to use the Internet of Things to hack Nike+ to do automatic Foursquare check-ins; augmented reality helped tennis fans "see through walls"; and Google Docs got real-time collaborative highlighting. Read on for more.
