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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Just a month after announcing its plans to devour hit app Instagram to the tune of $1 billion, Facebook has released its very own photo sharing app.
There’s a lot of money in poor people.
The ownCloud project is adding features fast and furiously.
Axis, Yahoo's "new kind of browser" that launched yesterday, is an attempt to do something noble and important.
Today's theme is real artists ship. Everyone wants their tech to be fun.
Today the X Prize Foundation announced a $2.
It is time for another look at enterprise IT from our friends Chief and Chuck.
If your boss asked you to identify all of the various SaaS-based providers that are being used across your corporate network, how long would it take you to put together a report? This isn't academic: As more of your end-users sign up for these cloud-based services, it becomes increasingly harder to maintain the appropriate enterprise security policies as the number and kinds of files stored there increases.
Social scientists are increasingly looking at online friendships and trying to figure out if they carry the same emotional baggage that real-world friendships do.
PayPal co-founder and Facebook pre-IPO stockholder Peter Thiel
Facebook's tainted public offering, which has attracted the attention of federal securities investigators, has grown a bit darker with the filing of a class-action lawsuit.