The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Why Pinterest Needs To Upgrade Visual Search Stat”. Lauren Orsini says, “Pinterest isn’t a social network. It’s a visual search engine. And its latest purchase of Visual Graph further proves its growing self-awareness of this fact. Millions use Pinterest to curate appealing images by designating them to specific categories called “pinboards.” But beneath the surface, our interaction with the service is not unlike an enormous visual search engine indexed by people instead of machines. It’s a ton of visual data, and Pinterest... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Online Privacy: We Are The Authors Of Our Own Demise”. Matt Assay says, “Lost in the furor over government spying on its citizens is an inconvenient truth: personal data is the new currency of the 21st century, and until we rein in our desire to spend it we can’t really stop others’ desires to spy on it. Paying With Our Data While not exactly a new thought, Evgeny Morozov highlights just how far we’ve gone toward making data the new virtual currency, showcasing the “disturbing trend whereby our personal information—rather... [...]