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WASHINGTON -- The White House's data.gov effort is spurring the creation of some entertaining and informative applications from private developers. Take for instance, DataMasher , which allows you to take two sets of data and merge them. Popular mashups

The Sunlight Foundation has picked two winning mashups in its contest: Washington, DC - The Sunlight Foundation awarded Datamasher.org with the grand prize of $10,000 for Sunlight's Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge. Datamasher.org is a Web appli

Apparently, people in New England are either really into birth control or just don't like getting it on. Either that, or every other state in the U.S. is full of Catholics or people that can't find anything better to do than procreate. At least that's my

Computerworld: The White House's data.gov effort is spurring the creation of some entertaining and informative applications from private developers. Take for instance, DataMasher, which allows you to take two sets of data and merge them. Popular mashups

Imagine a way to explore and have fun with government data. The winners of Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest say that 'fun' was part of their winning formula. The Alexandria-based Forum One just won the $10,000 first place prize at the O'Reilly M

Forum One's press release picked up by a UK virtualization publication.

DataMasher reviewed by a Czech publication.

Forum One`s DataMasher took first place out of 47 entries in Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest, a competition in which participants were challenged to build a web site or internet application that makes federal data more accessible, interesting, an

I found this over on ReadWriteWeb, and it is a very interesting example of future transparency and accessibility of government data and statistics. The post over there highlights the recent Sunlight Foundation, Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge

A new CareerBuilder survey reveals that prospective employers use social networks more than ever to check out job applicants--45% of them--and they use Facebook more than LinkedIn. What's even more interesting is how they're using personal info to reject

Katrina's devastation of New Orleans was BSM (before social media). It's hard to think that we lived during a period of time without social networking, but only 4 years ago Facebook was barely one year old, and Twitter was yet to be inked out on a restaur

Google starts an online app data portability initiative

Presentation on accessiblity issues, with info to keep in mind when talking to clients (good for Rainmakers and UXD as well as dev--not too complex)

Useful insights on how to move government toward a vision of shared data and services from @sandhawke

There are many constraints built into SharePoint and developers for SharePoint are not cheap. Development cycles for SharePoint as said to be about one third to half longer than most other options. At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this past Summer in Bost

A new research report just released by cause branding pros at Cone shows that 79% of those online are behind orgs harnessing email, Web sites and social media to build awareness, grow giving and motivate action. Better yet, 60% of this group has engaged w

On Monday, early adopter and Web provocateur Robert Scoble suggested that my use of Google Reader to share the best of the tech Web each day was antiquated. In fact, he called Reader "a dead product" compared to Twitter, which he believes will grow in imp

Good presentation by Zend Framework lead developer on how to architect models in MVC and separate responsibility.

May provide a way to handle partial migration of content (combined with Views Bulk Operations). Alternately use Views Bonus to export CSV, then import with Node Import.

Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams took the stage for a discussion with Federated Media's John Battelle. It was a lengthy discussion covering a lot of interesting topics. If you're interested in Twitter