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Weekly Wrap-up: Not on Facebook, Google Drive and Path’s Privacy Issues
Feb 11th
Alicia Eler explores the “Not On Facebook” movement. Jon Mitchell explains why Google Drive won’t be a Dropbox clone. Path uploads your entire address book to their servers without permission. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.
After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web – Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web – plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for more.
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Now is the Time to Quit Facebook
The number of people quitting Facebook is still small, but they are a vocal minority. Alicia Eler explores why they are leaving, shares the farewell stories of a few and explains why they felt a need to band together. Read Now is the Time to Quit Facebook to learn more about the “not on Facebook” movement.
Fabled Google Drive Won’t Be Another Dropbox
Some may be expecting the fabled Google Drive to compare closely to Apple’s iCloud or Dropbox, but Jon Mitchell explains why he expects the long rumored product to be a very different beast. Check out
Fabled Google Drive Won’t Be Another Dropbox to learn more.
The Price of Free: Path Uploads Entire Address Book To Its Servers
Path has gotten a great deal of attention because it has a great user experience, but this week it got some bad press over a privacy issue. You might not expect the app to upload your entire address book to it’s servers, but that’s exactly what one smart hacker discovered. Path has since apologized but there is a great deal of damage done. Is the price of a free app worth the loss of privacy? Learn more about Path’s privacy issue in The Price of Free: Path Uploads Entire Address Book To Its Servers.
From the comments:
Alan Langford – “The open source community has long distinguished between free as in no cost, and free as in freedom. One can expect that anything in the commercial sphere that comes at no monetary cost will do so by restricting one or more freedoms.”
Tiago Sartor – “There’s saying that goes like this: if something is free, then you are the product.”
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First Glimpses of Office 15 Are Minus the Ribbon
As Microsoft adopts a new usage model with elements gleaned from the “Metro” style, will Office be moving away from the ribbon? The first clips of the new Office in action deliberately obfuscate the answer. More
Since 2009, Mobile Internet Usage Has Doubled Every Year
The growth of the mobile Web is on a steady rise. While pundits throw around words like “explosive” and “outrageous” the more precise word is probably “consistent.” According to analytics firm StatCounter, users accessing the Web through mobile devices has almost doubled every year since 2009. In its latest report, StatCounter says that global Internet usage through mobile devices rose to 8.5%, nearly doubling the 2011 figure of 4.3%. More
New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for January 2012
2012 started with a flourish of new apps across iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The holiday season is the busiest time of year for app publishers but the follow up in January was equally impressive. That is a testament to the growing app ecosystem and the number of developers starting to program for mobile platforms. We take a look at some of our favorite new apps from last month below. More
Q&A: Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley on What He’s Learning From Twitter and What’s Next
Foursquare, about to celebrate its third birthday, is big but not huge. It has signed up 15 million users, hired over 100 employees and now boasts several million check-ins per day. That is impressive work for three years, but it must keep growing. More
Iran Blocks HTTPS, Cutting Off Gmail, Yahoo and Other Major Sites
The Iranian government isn’t exactly known as a champion of free speech and access to information. Thus, it’s never shocking to hear about Internet censorship in the country, the state of which appears to be getting worse all the time.
Today, news surfaced that the country is blocking access to websites that use HTTPS. That means that a number of popular, secure websites like Google, Gmail, Yahoo and even online banking sites are inaccessible. More
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Microsoft Looks For Ways To Use Kinect In Business Applications [UPDATED]
The company launched Kinect for Windows this month, which is the first Kinect sensor licensed for commercial use. Microsoft Dynamics, the company’s unit that develops enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management (CRM) software applications, is currently exploring business scenarios that could benefit from the use of Kinect technology. More
Facebook Bans Breast-Feeding Photos
Breasts. They’re complicated.
Facebook states that breast-feeding pictures are okie dokie, just as long as there’s no “exposed breast” that doesn’t feature the child actively nursing. In other words, if there’s no suckling, there’s no posting. Today breast-feeding activists are using Facebook to coordinate “nurse-ins” outside of of the company’s headquarters worldwide, including its homebase Menlo Park headquarters. More
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Google Readying Google Drive, Dropbox-Like Cloud Storage
Feb 11th
Google is readying a Dropbox-like service and will soon enter the cloud computing storage market. The Google Drive is expected to allow users to store documents, photos and videos on the cloud and make them accessible from any connected device.
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Google Places Can Greatly Help Boost Agents’ Real Estate SEO Marketing Efforts … – SBWire (press release)
Feb 10th
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Google Places Can Greatly Help Boost Agents' Real Estate SEO Marketing Efforts …
SBWire (press release) Harrisburg, PA — (SBWIRE) — 02/10/2012 — One advantage to being a local business owner is the ability to use Google Places for real estate SEO marketing. Instead of spending countless hours working on building rankings for niche specific keywords, … |
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Google AdWords Gets Shared Lists To Eliminate Duplicate Data Entry
Feb 10th
Sick of inputting the same things across multiple campaigns in Google AdWords? Yeah, Google suspected that was the case. Following the same philosophy that spawned the introduction of negative keyword lists in January of last year, Google has added placement exclusion lists and list suggestions….
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How to Analyze Google Analytics (not provided) Data – SEOmoz (blog)
Feb 10th
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How to Analyze Google Analytics (not provided) Data
SEOmoz (blog) If you don't like this kind of uncertainty in a career, then maybe SEO isn't for you. However, if you love a challenge and finding creative ways to overcome obstacles, read on. One of the most immediate problems that the Google update caused was the … Google Places Can Greatly Help Boost Agents' Real Estate SEO Marketing Efforts … |
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Craig Silverstein, Larry & Sergey’s First Hire, Quits Google
Feb 10th
Craig Silverstein, the first employee hired by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, is leaving the company. Silverstein, who helped build the Google search engine, met Page and Brin while the three attended Stanford.
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Google Retires Drop-Down Menu, Black Navigation Bar Returns
Feb 10th
Google’s drop-down menu, which was introduced in late November as part of the “next stage” of its massive redesign, is history. Google will revert to an updated version of the black navigation bar that began appearing ahead of the launch of Google+.
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Now, Mitt Romney Has A Santorum-Like Bing & Google Problem
Feb 10th
Perhaps Google may finally have to figure out a “fix” for Rick Santorum’s “Google Problem,” now that an anti-Romney site is making it appear that anyone can rank any protest page for any politician’s name. Bing has the same problem, but no one ever seems to care…
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The Ability to Search by Location in Google+ and its Benefits to Marketers
Feb 10th
The social media space is one of the most competitive industries in today’s digital world. This became clearer than ever in 2011, a year when we saw social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn evolve, and the birth of new players like Google+. Despite having an uphill climb ahead of it, Google knows that [...]
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Search In Pics: Google Sugar Cube, Yahoo Valentines & Chrome M&M’s
Feb 10th
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Valentines Day At Yahoo: Source: Flickr A Google Bike: Source Google+…
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