Normcore Nerds Flock to Gingham Shirts
Dorothy Gale doesn’t need Auntie Em to tell her gingham isn’t just in Kansas anymore. Silicon Valley Street Style is a weekly feature that looks at the intersection of fashion, technology and taste....
View ArticleWill Google Drop Big Money On These YouTube Stars?
From teen fashion gurus to tipsy chefs, bedroom video blogs may be coming to an end for some of YouTube’s biggest stars. The Google-owned video site announced it’ll soon start paying the production...
View ArticleThis Business Suit Onesie Is Ingenious Laziness In Clothing Form
Silicon Valley Street Style is a weekly feature that looks at the intersection of fashion, technology and taste. The business suit onesie is here, guys! Finally! Clearly we’ve all been waiting for the...
View ArticleThe Suitsy Phenomenon: Is The Adult Onesie The “Yo” Of Fashion?
Silicon Valley Street Style is a weekly feature that looks at the intersection of fashion, technology and taste. Well, the Suitsy sure did blow up, didn’t it? In the past week, the business suit...
View ArticleDear Barry Bonds: Stop Trying To Make “Glassing” A Thing
Silicon Valley Street Style is a weekly feature that looks at the intersection of fashion, technology and taste. Barry Bonds uploaded a photo on Twitter on Monday in which the former big-league...
View ArticleTop 10 Vine Stars Of All Time
Vine’s six-second video loops are the latest forum for today’s Internet Famous. Like YouTube and Instagram, Vine now hosts online celebrities with giant, legitimate followings. Here at ReadWrite, we’ve...
View ArticleHere’s What Your Startup Shirt Says About You
Silicon Valley Street Style is a weekly feature that looks at the intersection of fashion, technology and taste. Only in Silicon Valley can a simple design set against cotton blend say so much. Youth,...
View ArticleWith Bethany Mota, YouTube Is Doing More Than Dancing With The Stars
Six weeks into a fierce season of ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, YouTube’s fashion wunderkind Bethany Mota is still going strong. Paired onstage with pro favorite Derek Hough (as well as off-stage in...
View ArticleReadFright Celebrates Horrifyingly Techie Halloween Costumes
Silicon Valley Street Style is a regular feature that looks at the intersection of fashion and technology culture. Here at ReadWrite—make that ReadFright—we live for all things ghoulish and sp00ky....
View ArticleYour Long Wait For A (Two-Second) Longer Vine Video Is Over
Fans of ultrashort video, rejoice. You are no longer limited to Vine’s six-second shooting format or Instagram Video’s 15 seconds. Instead, the short-video app Ocho now offers—wait for it—eight-second...
View ArticleYouTube Music Key Is Coming For Spotify And Pandora
YouTube is making its play in the music streaming world. The video-hosting site announced Wednesday the launch of YouTube Music Key, a monthly music subscription service. YouTube Music Key, still in...
View ArticleGoogle Working On Versions Of Its Services For Kids
Beginning next year, Google plans to begin working on versions of several popular products specially created for children aged 12 and younger, a company executive told USA Today. The products most...
View ArticleVine Star Tony Oswald Is Not Just A One-Trick “Pony”
We’ve all heard about Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame, but what about six seconds? Vine, the ephemeral video app that allows users to upload six-second videos, has become its own community with...
View ArticlePresident Barack Obama Writes His First Line Of Code
President Barack Obama is being declared the first ever “Coder-in-Chief” on Monday after writing his first line of computer code. Using Code.org‘s Hour Of Code program and alongside 20 middle school...
View ArticleNew YouTube Tool Tells You If Your Video’s Song Is Copyrighted
Music copyright issues often get YouTube videos muted or even blocked. Now the service launched a new feature that lets video creators check those song rights before uploading, the company announced...
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay Goes Offline Following A Raid By Swedish Police
The notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay went offline Tuesday morning following a raid in Stockholm by Swedish police, TorrentFreak reports. Swedish police have reportedly seized servers and...
View ArticleTop Five Phones That Make Us Nostalgic For The ’00s
The annual International Consumer Electronics Show is ramping up for January, but it’s possible that we won’t be seeing many mobile announcements this year in Las Vegas. Taking a tip from Apple’s...
View ArticleSwarovski, Misfit Release Glamorous, Solar-Powered Wearables
Pretty Geeky is an ongoing series that explores the role of style and design in wearable technology. Wearable device maker Misfit has teamed up with Swarovski to create the Swarovski Shine...
View ArticleUstream’s Brad Hunstable Wants Everyone To Connect Through Livestream Video
ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future. Ustream founder and CEO Brad Hunstable initially created his livestream video...
View ArticleThe Most Popular Cameras Of 2014
Flickr has released its findings of the past year’s most widely used cameras (via email; no link). With over 10 billion photos being uploaded by over 100 million unique users, the photo-hosting site...
View Article8 Ways YouTube Will Be Changing How You Create Videos
YouTube may face some challenges as it moves toward the mainstream, but it isn’t standing still on the technological side. Here are eight new tools for video creators YouTube execs Matthew Glotzbach...
View ArticleStampede Of Teens: What YouTube’s Convention Taught Me About Its Culture Of...
As I entered the Anaheim Convention Center last Thursday, the first noise I heard was the bellowing of hundreds of teenage voices. I was here to learn the latest about YouTube at VidCon, the video...
View ArticleGoogle+ Ends The Pseudonym Wars On YouTube
Google+ has gone through more unnecessary username drama than your standard YouTube comments thread. But the social networking site announced Tuesday that it will no longer enforce restrictions on the...
View ArticleWhat Banana Republic’s “Startup Guy” Collection Gets All Wrong
Bravo, Banana Republic! We hail your valiant effort to inject some fashion sense into Silicon Valley. And purely from a fashion perspective, your new collection The Startup Guy is pretty on point; the...
View ArticleYouTube Is Chasing Hollywood—But It Should Worry About Its Homegrown Stars
In her keynote address at VidCon, YouTube’s unofficial, annual convention, Susan Wojcicki, the Google executive who took over the video site this year, looked over a packed audience at the Anaheim...
View ArticleInterns Tell Us What They Would Change At Silicon Valley’s Top Companies
I saw the massive line of interns long before I could see the venue. The young crowd waiting outside Broadway Studios in San Francisco on Tuesday chatted with friends and checked their phones, eagerly...
View ArticleWith Twitch, Google Could Dominate The World Of Gaming Videos
Google is reportedly purchasing video game livestreaming platform Twitch for $1 billion. A Google spokesperson has declined to comment on the rumors. Twitch, the world’s largest gaming website and...
View ArticleSnapchat’s New Celebrities: Now You See Them, Now You Don’t
Not all that long ago, the rise of the YouTube celebrity was weird and daunting. Then came the age of Vine, whose stars rose to prominence in videos so fleeting they raised what then seemed an...
View ArticleThe Future Of Shopping: When Apps Shop With—Or For—You
ReadWriteShop is an occasional series about the intersection of technology and commerce. E-commerce is already pretty much woven into our daily lives, but only in a limited, one-way sort of...
View Article6 Ways To Clear Hurdles As An Entrepreneur
Diane Wang constantly hears stories about adversity. The founder of Joyo.com (which eventually became Amazon China), now CEO of China e-commerce site DHGate, says she’s flooded with correspondence...
View ArticleTeens Love YouTube Superstars, But Advertisers Aren’t Biting—Yet
When YouTube kicked off its creator marketing campaign in May, the Google-owned video site hoped to attract new viewers. More than that, YouTube wanted to get advertisers keen on the site’s homegrown...
View ArticleWhy The Demise Of Justin.tv Marks The End Of The Bedroom Vlog
Livestreaming site Justin.tv shut down earlier this week after seven years of service (and two months of warning; its original notice went up on June 1). There’s lots of reasonable speculation that the...
View ArticleThat New YouTube Hashtag Tells Us How Video Fans Really Feel
For the latest confirmation of the porous boundaries that separate YouTube stars and their devoted fans, look no further than the latest trend on Twitter. Though it’s not what you might think at first...
View ArticleHas Silicon Valley Reached Peak Hoodie?
I hear a man strolling by the Original Stitch pop-up stand on San Francisco’s 4th and Townsend nonchalantly say, “That’s a nice shirt.” The Original Stitch pop-up stand. He’s eyeing two button-ups...
View ArticleWhy YouTube Music Key Is A Streaming Service That Might Actually Work
After much hype over YouTube’s rumored music service and delays in its launch, big changes are finally coming to the video site and Google Play Music All Access. On Monday, Android Police reported that...
View ArticleEven The White House Can’t Make Engineers Dress Up
Silicon Valley is invading Washington, D.C., casual clothing style and all. In a newly released video from the White House’s YouTube channel, we shadow Mikey Dickerson, a former Google engineer who is...
View ArticleNew Lingerie Collection Showcases Some Real Women Of Tech
Apparel brand Dear Kate last week launched its newest lingerie collection, The Ada, complete with a lookbook featuring a few of New York City’s women in tech. The brand’s collection is named after...
View ArticleLatest Rumor: Twitch Will Sell To Amazon, Not Google
[Update: Amazon has officially acquired Twitch for $970 million in cash.] Twitch, the popular video-game livestreaming site, may have spurned a reported $1 billion acquisition offer from Google in...
View ArticleWith Twitch, Amazon Has To Prove It Can Manage A Social Site
So Amazon is buying Twitch, the video-game livestreaming site, for $970 million in cash, apparently beating out Google’s YouTube unit in the process. That unites the e-commerce giant with the world’s...
View ArticleDropbox Antes Up In The Cloud-Storage Price War
Cloud storage platform Dropbox announced today that it is offering a terabyte of storage for $9.99 a month, the same terabyte storage price set by competitors Google Drive and Microsoft’s One Drive....
View ArticleApple Confirms: It’s Holding An Event On September 9
Apple confirmed that it will be holding a special event on September 9 in its hometown of Cupertino, Calif. The company’s coy teaser, “Wish we could say more,” leaves us wondering what we can expect...
View ArticleHow Twitch And YouTube Are Making Video Games A Big Business
Mark this moment: Watching people play video games has become a big business, with Amazon, Google, Disney, and others vying for a piece of the action. Call it livestream gaming: Top players record...
View ArticleVine Stars Are The New Boy Bands
If you’re still reeling from the idea that YouTube stars can cultivate teen fandemonium comparable to 90’s era boy bands—get ready, because it’s happening again. Vine stars—the niche, digital media...
View ArticleGaming Star PewDiePie Shuts Down Comments As YouTube’s Troll Problem Hits...
YouTube achieved peak troll this week when PewDiePie, video gamer star of the video-sharing community’s most popular channel ever, disabled comments, cutting off onsite communication with his more-than...
View ArticleWhat Fashionistas Want In A Wearable
Fashion-foward women at the Poshmark event Pretty Geeky is an ongoing series that explores the role of style and design in wearable technology. Some of San Francisco’s own fashion bloggers and members...
View ArticleTwitch Is Bringing The Arcade Back From The Dead
Twitch is simultaneously reaching into the past while looking towards the future. The live-streaming video gaming site, recently acquired by Amazon for close to $1 billion, is the reemergence of the...
View ArticleWhat’s The Difference Between The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus?
Apple’s big news today was the unveiling of two new iPhone models, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. What’s the difference between the two? Here’s a side-by-side breakdown for the 6 and 6 Plus. Price,...
View ArticleAt TechCrunch Disrupt, Attendees Construct Their Own Fashion Framework
Silicon Valley Street Style is an occasional feature that looks at the intersection of fashion and technology culture. Along with the slew of keynotes, fireside chats, and startup pitches that...
View ArticleThe Era Of The Drone Has Arrived
Skycatch’s Christian Sanz, Box’s Aaron Levie, NASA’s Parimal Kopardekar Drones are transitioning from military use to big business. So says Aaron Levie, CEO of cloud storage system Box, Wednesday in...
View ArticlePewDiePie Joins MLG, Bringing Mad Star Power To The Twitch Rival
PewDiePie, the reigning king of YouTube, will now stream episodes of his gaming podcast “BroKen” on MLG.tv. Felix Kjellberg and Kenneth Morrison Starting Monday, the Swedish YouTube gamer better...
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