US Tech Sector Growth Slowed Significantly in 2008
According to data released earlier this month by the US Census, the growth of the nation's software and IT tech sectors dramatically slowed in 2008 - the first such drop since the dot-com crash....
View Article'Enemies of the Internet': Not Just For Dictators Anymore
Reporters Without Borders released its annual report [PDF] on online access today. They call it Enemies of the Internet, and it shows a world where online censorship, intimidation and worse is...
View ArticleMore Twitter Analysis: Influencers Don't Retweet
As part of our ongoing series in conjunction with Tableau Software and TweetStats, we've been looking at some of Twitter's most influential users. What it means to be a "top" user on Twitter has...
View ArticleHuge Growth Projected for Web Tech, Software, Systems Job Market
Looking for a job? You're probably about to find one. By the year 2018 there will be 1.4 million job openings for so-called "computer specialists" - that's everyone from developers to database...
View ArticleWhite House to Federal Agencies: Beware Social Media Ratings and Polls
In a memo released yesterday, the White House made it significantly easier for federal agencies to use everything from social networks to online forums. But with the newfound freedom comes a...
View ArticleRise of the Machines: David Wood on the Internet of Things
Right about now, Rise of the Machines, a conference taking place in London on the Internet of Things, is about halfway over. Earlier today, one of the speakers, David Orban, sat down with another...
View ArticleThe 30 Best (And Worst) Web Tech Tattoos
Love Linux? Love your Mac? No you don't - not like the hundreds of people out there with Apple and Tux tattoos. But even then, that's not hard core - it's not like Apple is just a Web 2.0 darling du...
View ArticleReal-Time Web Summit Photo Roundup
The Real-Time Web Summit in New York City is currently winding down, and by most accounts it's been a pretty incredible day. To quote Baratunde Thurston, Web editor at @theonion, "This #rwwsummit...
View ArticleCrowd Smarts - It's Not What They Choose, But How
Companies have been trying different ways to use crowdsourcing even before the word was first used in 2006. Last year saw the rise of it as a marketing tool, with some spectacular failures. Two...
View ArticleComing This Election: Crowdsourcing For Scandal
In a world where crowdsourcing has become a mainstay of politics, a new site from the Democratic National Committee is taking the idea one step further and asking voters to find damaging videos of...
View Article15 Facts About Net Neutrality [Infographic]
Net neutrality has taken up a lot of headline space over the last two weeks. There was the Goggle and Verizon thing, and then something happened with the FCC and some Congress members, and the French...
View ArticleDressing For the Startup Interview: In Defense of the Suit
If there's a workplace environment that's as casual as the tech world, it's Hollywood. And in that informal setting, Paul Feig is an anachronism. Every day, the director of TV shows like Freaks and...
View ArticleT-Mobile Launches G2: What Does it Mean for 4G?
Earlier today T-Mobile officially launched the G2, its successor to the the company's flagship Android-powered G1 handset. In its announcement, T-Mobile's top selling point wasn't for the phone's...
View ArticleHere's What Happened to Delicious
Over at Quora, Tripline founder and CEO Byron Dumbrill answers the question, "Why did Delicious fail?" Dumbrill joined Yahoo in 2006, about nine months after it acquired the bookmarking service, and...
View Article2011 Staff Predictions
Editor's note: Every December the ReadWriteWeb team looks into the murky depths of the coming year and tries to predict the future. How did we do last year? Well, Facebook didn't go public, Google Wave...
View ArticleThis Week in Photos: Egypt
"Egyptian activists shout anti-succession slogans during a protest in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian police beat and arrested anti-government activists demonstrating outside the downtown presidential palace...
View ArticleThis Week in Photos: Phones, Facebook and Revolution
Tahrir Square, Feb. 1. Flickr CC photo by Ahmad HammoudJan 31. Flickr CC photo by Al Jazeera English"Broadcasting to the world. Anti Mubarak demonstration at Tahiri Sq. Feb 1 2011." Flickr CC photo by...
View Article10 Smart Links You Missed on Twitter Today
Taking down websites you don't agree with http://bit.ly/fqkTLR via @thomasbeagle Rosetta Stone says Google is a 'gateway for criminals'; Urges congress to make Google liable for infringement via COICA...
View Article10 Smart Links You Missed on Twitter on Thursday
25% of news links on blogs last week were about Wisconsin: http://bit.ly/eaKrq2 via @sabewOf course we analyzed charliesheen's followers. Twitter Inc loves the #tigerblood! http://bit.ly/eD62Cl via...
View Article10 Smart Links You Missed on Twitter Today
Touchscreen finger signatures: Valid? Legally-binding? http://bit.ly/ghCWFa @betanewsQ&A with Al Jazeera English's online producer Bilal Randeree: http://bit.ly/dNIcQ7 via @kdmcTruth in...
View Article10 Smart Links You Missed on Twitter on Today
What the Luddites really fought against (Hint: it wasn't technology): http://bit.ly/eM9VrL via @robert_sibleyWhen a tree falls in the forest, they *will* hear it. Always. In real-time. And over the...
View Article10 Smart Links You Missed on Twitter on Today
Fatting, Slurptime and Open Pit Twitter Mining: Essential names for common social media practices: http://bit.ly/fhxGJL via @ThoughtCatalogCat people vs. dog people! A study of pet-oriented social...
View Article10 Smart Links You Missed on Twitter on Today
Zombie Cyborg Beetles! Implanted with electrodes at birth! Flown via radio signals! [Video] http://bit.ly/fZjB0H via @scienceblogsUnexpected hazards of e-book lending: http://bit.ly/dQbenZ via...
View Article10 Smart Links You Missed on Twitter on Today
Robot! Feed me cake! Voice command-based robot feeding arm unveiled (Video): http://bit.ly/fYN5Bx via @DaveTheFuturistIf Ernest Hemingway wrote Yelp reviews: http://bit.ly/ijcRVI via @TimHilcoveWhere...
View Article10 Smart Links You Missed on Twitter on Today
Survey Asks Huffpo Bloggers: Do You Feel Exploited? http://bit.ly/g8CYyp via @YanazureSigmund Freud on mobile devices: "Man has become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs...
View Article10 Smart Links You Missed on Twitter on Today
What's the most effective way to spread false political rumors? Not blogs. Not Twitter. Email. http://bit.ly/e674zt via @millermccuneGoDaddy.com CEO kills elephant, poses with carcass, is "not...
View Article10 Smart Links You Missed on Twitter on Today
Toyota Kills Scion iPhone Jailbreak Theme After Apple Complains http://bit.ly/gCpkpL via @dailytechCalifornia's CTO: If government agencies spent 10% of their time on social media, "it would be the...
View Article9 Photos From Day 1 of the ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit
Richard MacManus, ReadWriteWeb founder, and Mike McCue, Flipboard founder and CEOBaratunde Thurston, Director of Digital for The Oniondanah boyd, researcher at Microsoft Research New EnglandFred...
View ArticleSpeed Geeking at the 2WAY Summit [Video]
Speed Geeking is a high-energy event where startups and established tech companies that we've selected give quick presentations to conference attendees. Every five minutes attendees switch to a new...
View ArticleMore Photos From the ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit
Ramine Darabiha, product manager, Angry Birds Magic, announcing the game's new integration with the physical world.JP Rangaswami, chief scientist at Salesforce.comJeff Jaffe, W3C CEOOur amazing team of...
View ArticleReadWriteWeb is Hiring a News Writer - Is It You?
The editorial team here at ReadWriteWeb is a unique bunch of journalists with very diverse backgrounds, but we all share a passion for one thing: Web technology. When you combine that team with...
View ArticleThis Week in Photos: #NASATweetup and the Final Launch of the Space Shuttle
"The space shuttle Atlantis is seen shortly after the rotating service structure (RSS) was rolled back at launch pad 39a, Thursday, July 7, 2011 at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla....
View ArticleGoogle Plus Users Top 10 Million; 1 Billion Items Shared Each Day
Google announced its second quarter earnings today and the numbers are a significant reversal from the slight dip the company saw in Q1. Google's gross revenue was $9.03 billion, more than what...
View ArticleOSCON Ignite Live!
OSCON, O'Reilly's annual convention devoted to everything open source, kicked off in Portland, Oregon this morning. The day will finish with OSCON Ignite. Ignite is the event series, born and bred by...
View ArticleReadWriteWeb's 2012 Staff Predictions (And What We Got Wrong in 2011)
Oh, the hubris of year-end predictions posts. How did ReadWriteWeb do last year? We nailed a few of our guesses informed forecasts: 2011 saw the arrival of a $200 tablet, a Verizon iPhone, and Spotify...
View Article32 More of the Best (And Worst) Tech Tattoos
At this point there's probably nothing in geekdom, no matter how arcane, that hasn't ended up on someone's skin. "In" someone's skin, to be precise. From ASCII art, to xkcdcomics, to video games, to...
View ArticleThursday's Top Tech Video: How to Translate Your Voice to More Than 30...
Just to be clear, Lingual is an extension for phones and iPads that are jailbroken (big surprise), but as you can see from Jeff Benjamin's preview, it's pretty remarkable. Not only will it translate...
View ArticleTop Tech Video of the Day: [Stuff] Entrepreneurs Say
"Connect it to Facebook, viral spread, boom, boom." I have no idea what that means but I do know that for some reason, I'm still not tired of the Sh*t [fill in the blank] Says meme. This video is for...
View ArticleTop Tech Video of the Day: AT&T Customers Rave About the First Public Cell...
Back in the late 1970s in Chicago, Bell System built the first mobile phone system that could support hundreds of concurrent connections. That was a big deal compared to, for instance, New York where...
View ArticleTop Tech Video of the Day: The Ultimate Way to Stalk Your Boss
The creator, Michael Shirley, describes it like this: "The device is triggered by a reed-switch sensor that monitors magnetic proximity. The signal is sent through an Arduino board to a Processing...
View ArticleZuckerberg's Letter to Shareholders: "Personal Relationships Are the...
Editor's note: As part of Facebook's initial public offering announcement today, founder Mark Zuckerberg included this letter to potential shareholders."Facebook was not originally created to be a...
View ArticleTop Tech Video of the Day: The SMS-Email-Facebook-Twitter-Alert Musical
To make his "musical," as he calls it, filmmaker/actor Chris Crutchfield's, took the ubiquitous dinging, pinging, almost-melodic alerts that pervade our digital lives and mashed them up into a...
View ArticleTop Tech Video of the Day: My 2 Year Old Discovered Flickr Today
This is old (as in 2007 old). The kid in the video is now seven years old and undoubtably jailbreaks his iPhone and programs Arduino boards. But five years ago he was just a toddler with a bottle, and...
View ArticleHow the Big Tech Companies Are Selling You Out
In the months leading up to the passage of CISPA, Google, AT&T and dozens of other companies unleashed a small army of lobbyists on the White House, Congress and the Senate. The crusade was just a...
View ArticleFacebook CTO Is Leaving 1 Month After IPO
Facebook CTO Bret Taylor, who once described himself as being in "violent agreement" with Mark Zuckerberg, is reportedly stepping down later this summer to work for an unnamed startup. Taylor has been...
View ArticleFacebook Shares Slip After Disappointing Zynga Earnings Report
Zynga's share price plummeted almost 40% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the company reported a $22.8 million loss for the second quarter. The social gaming developer also revealed that it was...
View ArticleApple Patents Destroy The Starship Enterprise [Video]
Created by the guys behind @HAL9000_.Continue reading
View ArticleLive Blog: Apple's iPhone Announcement - Plus iTunes Update, iOS 6, New iPods
9:21: John Paul Titlow: We've got 40 minutes to go, and still the last-minute leaks and rumors are churning. What has been confirmed is that we'll be getting the iPhone 5 (by that name), new iPods and...
View ArticleThis Is What IMDb.com Looked Like in 1990
IMDb.com, the 57th most trafficked site in the world, was born in the late 1980s on a Usenet board called rec.arts.movies where movie buffs swapped lists of actors, casts, directors and other trivia....
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