May 2011
Facebook Publishes Guide to Social Marketing Best... →
Facebook recently published a PDF document giving businesses a guide to best practices for marketing on the massive social networking site. The 14-page document, titled “Best Practice Guide:…
February 2011
Google is thinking about killing the URL bar →
Google, the unofficial overlord of the web is always trying to “do no evil,” but if an internal document bears any truth, the search giant might do lots of it by killing the URL address bar in…
Apple vs. Publishers: Why Apple Already Won →
Apple this week announced a plan to levy a 30% fee on publishers who charge subscriptions through its App Store on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The…
All dumphones could get Facebook crammed inside of... →
Still rocking a Motorola RAZR or a Nokia 3210 dumphone? Wish you could get Facebook access on your non-smartphone? You can, because Facebook will soon be built-in to standard GSM SIM cards.
Viewdle Brings Visual Recognition & Social... →
At this week’s Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona, Silicon Valley mobile start-up, Viewdle, showed off it’s visual analysis technology linking facial recognition to social media.
Back to the future →
Back to the future by Irina Werning.”Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, i..(Read…)
I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had... →
Comedy can’t always be safe, and sometimes entertainers need to challenge social orthodoxies. But ‘saying the unsayable’ is different from simply recycling offensive cliches about Mexicans
As…
January 2011
Time Freeze Shootout →
Freddie Wong calls a timeout as he’s being ambushed by bad guys while on vacation in New Mexico.
Stitched Illustrations →
Stitched Illustrations by Peter Crawley, it’s as simple as that.
found via CreativeApplications.Net
In Cambodia, The sight of someone talking on two... →
Urban Cambodia is so over-saturated with mobiles and telephone numbers that it’s often impossible to get anyone, anywhere on the line, according to the Global Post.
Rice farmers own…
Google Adds Browser-Based Code Editor to Project... →
This week Google added a CodeMirror-powered code editor to Google Project Hosting. This enables developers to make quick changes to Google projects from within the browser without having…
Paranoia over legal status of WikiLeaks breeds new... →
Americans targeted by fake phone message claiming reading leaked cables could lead to imprisonment or a hefty fine
The call, when it comes, is both unexpected and worrying to its American…
All your different credit cards can now live on... →
If you’re carrying more than one credit card in your wallet, you’re now officially carrying too many. A company called Dynamics has come up with a single credit card that can reprogram itself…
Google building its own NFC-based payments system? →
Can’t say we’re surprised to hear this at all, but Bloomberg BusinessWeek says Google’s working on its own NFC-based mobile payments system. That makes perfect sense, given that Eric…
Webpop →
A cloud content management system that makes it easy to create custom designed websites that clients can keep up to date. URL: Webpop
Pogo Embarks On An Adventure To Remix The Real... →
Remix artist Pogo has launched a Kickstarter project to raise funds to embark on an adventure to remix the real world.
World Remix is my idea for an upcoming album which would expand upon…
2011 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,…
December 2010
The Pixel Sleeping Eye Mask By Studiobo →
Sleep in retro 8-bit style with the Pixel Sleeping Eye Mask created by studiobo. You can wear your sunglasses at night and dream geeky dreams while doing so.
Available for purchase…
Photos From a Day at Bell Labs in the 1960′s →
Lawrence Harley “Larry” Luckham shot some wonderful photos of his co-workers one day at Bell Labs in the 1960′s.
In the late ’60′s I worked for Bell Labs for a few years managing a data…
Huis ter Dijk, A LEGO Modernist House →
Niek Geurts created “Huis ter Dijk” a fantastic LEGO Modernist House inspired by Dutch architect Willem Dudok.
via The Brothers Brick
photos by Niek Geurts
Why the Fashion Industry Is Betting Big on Branded... →
Macala Wright Lee is the publisher of FashionablyMarketing.Me. Wright Lee is a retail consultant who’s firm, Fashionably Digital, specializes…
Tours of London, led by the city's homeless →
It’s a well-known fact that tourists typically get a very different view of a city than locals do, but it’s a pretty safe bet that participants in Sock Mob Events tours get an even more…
How a Colorblind Kid Became a Great Graphic... →
How a Colorblind Kid Became a Great Graphic Designer. Yoav Brill creates a wonderful video narrating how he chose such an unlikely path — and which also shows what colorblindness is like.
I’m also a color-blind designer and this is one of the most well made and touching videos I’ve seen in a while. Also if you want to know how we do it, this quote sums it up; “My color blindness was not a big...
YouTube Asks Users to Flag Videos that Promote... →
Over 35 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, so it’s just not feasible that YouTube review each video before it’s posted online. Instead, YouTube points to its community…
Chromaroma and the onward march of gameification →
Mudlark’s London transport-based game – launched this week – aims to make commuting fun
December’s arctic welcome has caused chaos across the UK’s transport system – motorways littered with…
This is the Google Chrome OS netbook keyboard →
It’s just a Chrome OS sorta day, isn’t it? To catch you up here, we told you earlier that Google is planning to announce its own Chrome OS netbook this coming Tuesday, and well, now…
Groupon Turns Down Google’s $6 Billion Offer →
Groupon has reportedly rejected Google’s massive $6 billion acquisition offer and intends to stay independent. The group-buying giant has been the center of the…
Personality Analytics - The Next Must-Have Feature... →
Here’s a method that could have a profound impact on social CRM strategies: using personality types to match customers up with representatives. Fast Company reports on how eLoyalty is using…
Image of the Day: a house made of stairs →
y+M Design Office completed this family home in Japan with a bit of a twist. The facade is made of stairs leading from the ground level to the roof. The owners wanted a welcoming house that…
Burn, Little Men!: Melted Army Men Bowls →
I can’t count how may hours of my youth were spent having checker wars with plastic army men. And not just because I’m a bad counter, but I did give the bartender $17 for a $62 tab last…
Susan Anderson →
More Photography by Susan Anderson
Spacelog provides fascinating searchable text... →
What you’re looking at above is a scan of the physical NASA transcript of a famous moment of the Apollo 13 space mission. These transcripts make extremely fascinating reading,…
Flipboard's Big Update: This is an iPad Mag Done... →
Flipboard, the iPad “social” magazine which launched to a barrage of press back in July, has just announced the addition of several more publishing partners, the first to test Flipboard’s new…
Gowalla Introduces Unified Check-In →
Very interesting article on TechCrunch regarding Gowalla’s decision to allow you to “check in” on Foursquare and Facebook.
The location-based service has decided to fundamentally altered their…
November 2010
Walk this sway →
NPR has a fascinating segment about how humans can’t walk in a straight line unless we have an external guide. We just end up walking in circles.
It turns out, no one is really sure why…
Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1552 →
Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1552, originally uploaded by Ape Lad.
You can probably guess what Pip’s saying, if that’s Pip.
Squirrel FAIL →
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Mannequin FAIL →
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Tin foil face →
British designer Dominic Wilcox self portrait made from tin foil via Book of Joe. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Arts |…
I'm A Celebrity ... viewers turn on Gillian... →
Nutritionist continues to prove unpopular for viewers, who inflicted yet another bushtucker trial on her
Gillian McKeith has had a difficult week. Last night television viewers saw her…
Mannequin FAIL →
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Band Aid: Hulk →
Cool advertising!Flexible fabric. Advertising Agency: JWT Dubai, UAE Executive Creative Directors: R..(Read…)
Study: Wi-Fi Makes Our Trees Sick →
Data centers hum day and night. More often than ever before we connect to these cloud environments through Wi-Fi networks. According to PCWorld, now it looks like the radiation from…
Keyboard Parts Lamp →
Keyboard Parts Lamp, a lamp made of unwanted keyboard keys. By Nolan Herbut. VIA…
BCOME sending out →
… Sending out things will from now on be accompanied by a little card which says THANK U + ENJOY ! ありがとう +楽しんで ! BCOME more informed !