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HR 3261 has riled up the internet and with good reason. We take a look at the effects of the new bill, in an easy to follow infographic from the folks at AmericanCensorship.org. 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.

Top Stories of the Week

Infographic: Effects of the Internet Blacklist Bill (SOPA) [Updated]

Trying to keep up with every threat to privacy online is a never-ending race on the hamster wheel. For that reason, when someone jumps up and down and tells us to pay close attention to the latest threat, many of us shrug our shoulders because we just don’t have the time to learn about each and every major privacy threat in the tech new cycle. To help us cut through the overwhelming amount of information we’ve already received about SOPA, the Stop Internet Piracy Act, the team at AmericanCensorship.org brings us this simple to follow infographic that very clearly details the risks of SOPA.

ReadWriteWeb commenter COV summed it up best:

The Brand Pages Face Off: Google+ vs. Facebook

In this corner, veteran marketing tool, Facebook brand pages. In the other corner, newcomer to the social space, Google+ brand pages. Richard takes a hard look at both offerings by checking out the brand pages of luxury auto makers BMW and Mercedes-Benz on each.

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What a Tweet Can Tell You

Here’s a review of DataSift, the second licensed reseller of tweets. More likely a business offering than a consumer tool, DataSift has great potential and a confusing UI. Read Marshall’s post for a look at the possibilities of Twitter data mining with robust data tool.

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9 Innings worth of MLB on ReadWriteWeb

ReadWriteWeb coverage of the MLB.com College Challenge, a 14 hour Hack Day open to only a few students but with impressive VC potential.

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• Updated: Hollywood and Congress Target Mozilla

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• Women’s Heel Size Drops, Thanks to IBM Analytics
• From DevOps to NoOps: 10 Cloud Services You Should Be Using
• Foursquare’s Website Just Got a Whole Lot More Useful
• Hacker Shows How To Easily Root the Kindle Fire
• Tumblr Censors Our Dashboards In Opposition To SOPA
• So This is Openness, Google X, and What Have You Done?

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Enterprise

• Infographic: Data Deluge – 8 Zettabytes of Data by 2015
• IBM Tech Trends 2011 Highlights Biz Analytics Needs
• So This is Openness, Google X, and What Have You Done?

Cloud

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• Red Hat Beefs Up Java Experience for OpenShift PaaS
• EnterpriseDB’s Karen Padir: From MySQL to Postgres + Hadoop
• Box.Net Launches $2M Innovation Fund

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• Draft W3C Standard Looks More Like ‘Please, Do Not Track’
• RWW at MLB.com Challenge
• Maybe it’s Time for Kinkos to Offer 3D Printers

Mobile

• Top Mobile Developer Priorities of 2011: Reach, Engagement, Loyalty & Monetization
• Google Starts Pushing the Android Ice Cream Sandwich Source Code
• Hacker Shows How To Easily Root the Kindle Fire

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Another journalist was killed for speaking out against drug cartel, Las Zetas. Dan reviews the mobile apps released for October. Grove.io promises a better IRC experience. 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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Top Stories of the Week

Drug Cartel Murders Another Blogger [Updated]

Journalism in Mexico is dangerous. More than a dozen men and women who report on the drug cartel, Las Zetas, have been savagely murdered. The most recent casualty of this war is Rascatripas. His body, hung from the same overpass as last month’s double murder of journalists, was adorned with a sign that said, in Spanish, “This happened to me for not understanding that I shouldn’t report on the social networks.”

ReadWriteWeb commenter iamdamian summed it up best:

New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for October 2011

Every month, as a labor of love, Dan Rowinski puts together a list of the most interesting apps that were released, along with any updates you need to see. Check it out and give us your feedback.

Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams

IRC has some annoyances, but all in all, it’s a darn fine protocol that has served us well for years. Leah Culver and Jori Lallo, both of Convore, have created Grove which promises to remove some of the IRC hurdles, like hosting, so that we can continue to use this open protocol with ease.

ReadWriteWeb Commenter, David Yang is hopeful:

ReadWriteWeb Meetups Around the World – TUESDAY 11/15

Only a few days left before our ReadWriteWeb worldwide technology meetup on November 15! There are already some amazing meetups planned in Tokyo, Seoul, Vladivostok, Russia, Amsterdam, New Zealand, Boston, MA, St. Louis, MO, Washington, DC and more. Don’t see your city listed? Add it in one click!

Reach out to our community manager if you have any questions or need some help with promotion.

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• Facebook Restores the Old News Feed
• 3 Key Business Lessons From Steve Jobs: Intuition, Reinvention, Focus
• Salesforce’s Do.com Aims to Torpedo Microsoft’s Collaboration Stronghold
• Microsoft Gives Up on Competition, Tries to Buy IE Users Instead

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• Microsoft Gives Up on Competition, Tries to Buy IE Users Instead
• Yammer Widens Its Ecosystem Big Time
• Eric Schmidt, Patents, and the ‘Sword of Damocles’ Defense

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• Startup Pancake.io Hosts Websites Using Dropbox
• Hacker News and the Damage Done? 10gen Responds on MongoDB
• New Amazon AWS Cluster Lowers Costs for Both Customers and Amazon

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• HTML5 Apps Platform Creator Absorbed by Facebook
• Grove.io Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat for Teams
• RWW Special: MLB.com Challenges Students to Reinvent Web Sports

Mobile

• Mobile App Inflection Point: 25 Billion Apps Downloaded in 2011
• Crashlytics Knows Why Your iOS Apps Crash
• Tablet Users Watch More Video Content

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The value of email, screenshots from the earliest days of Twitter and a look at WinRT from Build 2011 round out the top stories in this week’s ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.

After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web – Android, Apps and Google – plus highlights from our six channels. Read on for more.

Top Stories of the Week

• The Value of Email [Infographic]
• What Twitter Looked Like When It Was Born (Screenshot, History)
• Build 2011: What Is WinRT, and Is Silverlight Dead?
• How Tumblr is Changing Journalism
• Analysis: What Windows 8 Should Become

More coverage and analysis from ReadWriteWeb

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• How the Boston Globe Pulled Off HTML5 Responsive Design
• New Chrome Blurs The Line Between Web and Native Apps
• Tumblr Reels in Big Traffic, Now 8x More Page Views Than WordPress.com
• Tablets and Smartphones Will Truly Start Killing the PC in 2015, Says Report
• Using 20 Billion Data Points, Goodreads Will Recommend Your Next Book
• MacBook Air Contest: Tell Us How You Won Management Over to Virtualization
• ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, September 17, 2011

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Why writing good code matters, Google’s private version of Open and the 5 worst CEOs in Tech round out the top stories in this week’s ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.

After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web – Android, Mobile and Google – plus highlights from our six channels. Read on for more.

Top Stories of the Week

• The Art of Good Code Design
• Google to Android Developers: ‘Do Not Develop in the Open’
• Three Big Geeks Leave Microsoft in One Day, Including Barney Pell
• The 5 Worst CEOs in Tech
• 8 Deadly Sins of Site Design [Infographic]

More coverage and analysis from ReadWriteWeb

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• MacBook Air Contest: Give Us Your Suggestions for Implementing Big Data with Virtualization
• The Future of Mobile Data Plans
• Social Media Case Study: Brooklyn Museum
• Google Acquires Restaurant Review Publisher Zagat
• Visualizing the Local Effects of Recovery Spending on Job Loss [Interactive Map]
• The Next Internet: What’s Holding Us Back?
• At Least Half of All Twitter Accounts Are Inactive
• Dropbox Intern Redesigns Mobile Site to Resemble a Native App
• How Silicon Valley’s Most-Connected Exec Does His Hiring
• How’s Mozilla Doing with Do Not Track? Not So Good
• ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, September 10, 2011

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Ashton Kutcher, star of TV and Twitter, was at TED this last week when a surprising tweet popped up in his stream: “Ashton, you’ve been Punk’d. This account is not secure. Dude, where’s my SSL?” Laugh all you want – when was the last time you double checked to see if you were using https://twitter.com, Twitter’s secure URL?

After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web – mobile, location, app stores – plus highlights from our six channels. Read on for more.

Top Stories of the Week

• Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter Account Hacked at TED
• All the Details on Apple’s iPad 2: Specs, Pricing, Release Date
• Android Becomes Number One in U.S. Smartphone Market Share
• Light Painting Wi-Fi (Haunting Video)
• Mozilla Makes A Better Case for Web Apps in Minutes Than Google Did in Months

More coverage and analysis from ReadWriteWeb

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Location

• Yobongo Hits the App Store: Can It Deliver?
• Yelp Would Like to Have Its Cake & Eat it, Too (Plus the Cake Tastes Terrible!)

More Location coverage

Mobile

• Are We Entering the Dark Ages of Mobile Apps?
• Chomp for Android is a Promising, but Imperfect, Android Market Alternative

More Mobile coverage

App Stores

• In-App Payments for Android Still Coming in Q1 2011

More App Stores coverage

ReadWriteEnterprise

ReadWriteEnterprise is devoted to enterprise 2.0 and using social software inside organizations.

• Live Blog from IBM Pulse: The Data World – Buildings, Homes…You Name It
• Does Your Social Media Strategy Include Africa and China?
• Salesforce.com Bringing Apple’s FaceTime to the Contact Center

ReadWriteStart

ReadWriteStart, sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark, is a resource for startups and entrepreneurs.

• Quora for Startups: Sprouter Pivots to Focus on Q&A for Entrepreneurs
• What the AngelList Debate Means for the Future of Startup Investing
• hackNY Expands Its Internship Program, Matching Student Hackers and NYC Startups

ReadWriteCloud

ReadWriteCloud, sponsored by VMware and Intel, is dedicated to Virtualization and Cloud Computing.

• Cloud + Machine-to-Machine = Disruption of Things: Part 1
• Weekly Poll: Is the iPad 2 Suited for the Cloud?
• The Road to the Cloud: How Do You Move Applications to the Cloud?

ReadWriteBiz

ReadWriteBiz is a resource and guide for small to medium businesses.

• YC Startup Custora Helps Businesses Battle Churn
• Control Any Desktop Computer From Your iPad with GoToMyPC
• Apple Launches Program to Help Small Businesses Move to Mac, iPad, iPhone

ReadWriteHack

ReadWriteHack is a resource and guide for developers.

• Crawl Bank Accounts with the Ghost of Wesabe
• RStudio: An Open Source and Cross-Platform IDE for R
• Building an E-Commerce App Made Easy With Tinypay.me’s New API

ReadWriteMobile

ReadWriteMobile is dedicated to helping its community understand the strategic business and technical implications of developing mobile applications.

• Mobile Operating System Market Share, Feb. 2011 (Infographic)
• iPhone Application Development for Dummies
• Weekly Poll: Too Little, Too Late for a Microsoft Tablet?

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