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Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 10:00pm PDT
- Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software » Conclusion
conclusions from Christopher Kely.
- Accueil - Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre 2008
Les RMLL (Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre) sont l'occasion pour tous les publics de se rencontrer autour des logiciels libres.
- The Next 10 Million Users Won't Have a Beard : Building a global, effective advocacy community for Freedomware - Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre 2008
explain their two-year-long efforts to provide high quality marketing for GNU/Linux, and talk about the long-term vision of the non-profit for free software advocacy.
- ISEA2008
the world's premier media arts event for the critical discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in interactive and digital media. Held biannually in various cities
- Unit Structures: Web 2.0's Breakpoint
It also strikes me that Schacter's exit, as well as the exit of Flickr co-founders Butterfield and Fake, create a nice breakpoint for Web 2.0.
- The Microfame Game and the New Rules of Internet Celebrity -- New York Magazine
There’s a new class of celebrity powered by the Internet. The stakes are smaller, but the rewards are within anyone’s reach. These are the rules.
- Thinking Space: LinkedIn to Chinese market, oppotunity and challenge
fundamental difference between Chinese social networking and western social networking.
- My Vision Of Social Networking: Burning Problems « Follow the passion
I wanna talk to you about some burning problems we have when using social networking sites and tools. This is how I feel from user’s point of view.
- Immune to Critics, Secret-Spilling Wikileaks Plans to Save Journalism From Itself
great profile of Wikileaks
- Cory Doctorow: Getting tough on copyright enforcers | Technology | guardian.co.uk
I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate.
- Defending Openness in the European Union - Blogs – ComputerworldUK blogs - The latest technology news & analysis on Outsourcing, HMRC data, Apple iPhone, Global warming, MySQL, Open Enterprise
Royalty-free is the only way to establish a truly level playing field – which was the whole point of adopting open standards in the first place. Allowing anything else would be a total negation of what openness is all about.
- European Interoperability Framework
- Google Is Evil in a Flash - Blogs – ComputerworldUK blogs - The latest technology news & analysis on Outsourcing, HMRC data, Apple iPhone, Global warming, MySQL, Open Enterprise
Flash is the antithesis of the Web's transparent, open structure, and Google is decidely evil to be aiding and abetting it with this latest move.
- Your Right To Know » Article: Let’s get crime mapping
The police in Britain, however, feel they “own” crime data and the public have no right to know what is happening. Yet access to criminal incident data is vital, as it allows the public to judge the effectiveness of the police and crime policies.
- Intellectual Property Watch » Member Nations Balk At World Customs Organization IP Enforcement Push
Concerns ran high in some developing countries last week that their voices have been largely absent from a draft set of standards for heightened intellectual property enforcement advancing rapidly at the World Customs Organization
- Your Right To Know
UK Open govt blog
- ICANN Goes .bonkers - Blogs – ComputerworldUK blogs - The latest technology news & analysis on Outsourcing, HMRC data, Apple iPhone, Global warming, MySQL, Open Enterprise
domain names will turn into a kind of protection racket
- B2fxxx: p2p search report
Why is the search engine market so concentrated and will it evolve towards monopoly? What are the implications of this concentration for different `participants’ (consumers, search engines, advertisers)?
- Opening up Symbian – Good or Bad for Linux?
assessment by Glyn Moody
- Software Patents: Campaign4Creativity is back in software patents lobbying
Software patents are getting back through the back door, as EICTA and BSA predicted the monday before the vote on the software patent directive, arguing on the phone with several EPP MEPs to push for rejection, and push for a central court instead.
- Linux is Subversive....
tool for managing software development and maintenance across distributed teams.
- 451 CAOS Theory » We’re all going on a European tour
a virtual tour of Europe to assess the adoption of open source software across the continent.
- Why I Don’t Use Facebook (Too) Much Anymore - PaulStamatiou.com
Ever since Facebook applications came along…
- When Does a Social Network Become a "Publicity Network"? | CenterNetworks
Robert Scoble has mentioned several times that Facebook currently limits him to 5,000 "friends" and that the limit should be lifted.
- Social media confuses relationships and databases
A “link” on LinkedIn, a “friend” on Friendster … those are entries in a database. Yes, it’s a “relational” database, but that’s a technical term. It doesn’t mean you have a relationship.
- Is Google the Next Microsoft?
research paper by rufus pollock, on the economics of search
- Facebook owns /me online and I hate it. What can we do? at optimal experience
FACEBOOK, I’m sick of the singles ads and I’m sick of you owning my timeline.
- Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog » Blog Archive » After the first Open Visualisation Workshop
The first Open Visualisation Workshop took place
- Should the public care about Data Portability? | Here in the Hive
’ve long been behind the idea of data portability, especially in relation to social networks but does any member of the public actually care about this - or should they?
- MicrobeWiki - MicrobeWiki
MicrobeWiki is a free wiki resource on microbes and microbiology, edited by students and monitored by microbiologists at Kenyon College. We invite you to use our Microbe Wiki to study the microbial world with us.
- The Devolab at MSU
An approach to studying evolution that lies somewhere in between evolution experiments with biochemical organisms and standard Monte-Carlo simulations is the study of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms).