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Our top stories this week were about cutting the strings that tie us to our desks. And also about stalking celebrities at SXSW. Read on for our coverage and analysis. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010, including Real-Time Web, Mobile Web and Internet of Things.

Note: We’ve refreshed the format for our longest running feature, the Weekly Wrapup. It now focuses more explicitly on the key trends that ReadWriteWeb is tracking in 2010, as well as giving you the highlights from the leading story of the week. Let us know your thoughts on the new format.

Story of the Week: Leaving your desk for the cloud, a bike or someplace you’d rather not say.

• Put.io Turns Torrents Into Streams [Invites]
• Bicycling Directions, Trails Come to Google Maps
• Chatroulette Creator Coming to America?
• 6 Thoughts About Location Madness
• SXSW 2010 for Web Celeb Stalkers

More coverage and analysis of location-based technology

Announcing the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit

Join us for the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit on May 7 in Mountain View, California as we explore the latest mobile development trends, both the technology and the emerging business applications. Be a part of the discussion on geo-location services, augmented reality, native app vs. browser-based, commerce and marketing, mobile social networking and the Internet of Things. Sponsorship enquiries: sales@readwriteweb.com,

Register now for the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit and get early bird rates – only $295.

Mobile Web

• Twitter Location? Thanks, But No Thanks
• Is the iPhone Still More Personal than Professional?
• Japan’s Largest Telco Goes OpenID

More Mobile Web coverage

Historic Conversation in NYC: Ai Weiwei, Jack Dorsey & Richard MacManus

On March 15, at the prestigious Paley Center in New York City, a conversation will take place between Chinese digital activist and artist Ai Weiwei, Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, and yours truly, Richard MacManus, ReadWriteWeb founder and editor in chief. The moderator will be Orville Schell, the director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York.

The topic of the event is the emergence of digital activism for fostering positive social change. The onsite event is invitation only, but it will be live streamed exclusively on ReadWriteWeb on Monday, March 15, at 6:30 PM EST (-5 GMT), from the Paley Center for Media, New York City.

Internet of Things

• Stickybits: Portal to Another Dimension or Graffiti for Nerds?

More Internet of Things coverage

Real-Time Web

• Google Wave Extensions Gallery Launches
• Chasing Real-Time Raindrops in an Ocean of Content
• Google’s Mobile Product Search Now Shows Real-Time Local Inventory

More Real-Time Web coverage. Don’t miss the next wave of opportunity on the Web supported by real-time technology! Get ReadWriteWeb’s report, The Real-Time Web and its Future.

Check Out The ReadWriteWeb iPhone App

We recently launched the official ReadWriteWeb iPhone app. As well as enabling you to read ReadWriteWeb while on the go or lying on the couch, we’ve made it easy to share ReadWriteWeb posts directly from your iPhone, on Twitter and Facebook. You can also follow the RWW team on Twitter, directly from the app. We invite you to download it now from iTunes.

ReadWriteStart

Our channel ReadWriteStart, sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark, is dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs.

• 10 Principles For Not Killing Your Startup
• All the Small Things: Facebook Demonstrates How to Get Big Results From Little Changes
• First Look at TechStars Historical Results Data

ReadWriteEnterprise

Our channel ReadWriteEnterprise is devoted to ‘enterprise 2.0′ and using social software inside organizations.

• International Blackberry Outage Goes Into Day 2
• Will StatusNet Be Another Open-Source Star in the Enterprise?

ReadWriteCloud

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

• SXSW 2010 for Cloud Lovers
• Cloud Religion: Do’s, Do Not’s, and a Glimpse of Nirvana
• Cisco in the Core: Preparing for the Next Generation Internet

That’s a wrap for another week! Enjoy your weekend everyone.

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