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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Steve Madsen

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'Do Not Track List' requested of FTC - The INQUIRER - 0 views

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    This article shows privacy concerns about the implicit collection of data by tracking mouse movents / clicks / keyboard.
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    CONSUMER GROUPS asked the US Federal Trade Commission to establish a national "Do Not Track List" that would enable Internet wibblers to prohibit advertisers from building profiles of their online activities.
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Cubans line up for mobile phones - Technology - smh.com.au - 0 views

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    Lines stretched for blocks outside phone stores Monday as ordinary Cubans were allowed to sign up for cellular phone service for the first time.
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Tea time goes high tech - Technology - smh.com.au - 0 views

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    Technology can link a kettle to a mobile phone, so every time an elderly person boils water for their morning cup of tea a message is sent to a family member letting them know their relative is up and well. (Australia)
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PC World - Business Center: Salesforce Announces Integration With Google Apps - 0 views

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    A wikinomics concept: an established company combining with Google Apps because of the collaborative aspects.
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    Salesforce has integrated Google's online productivity applications with its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) offerings.
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Bollywood's Viral Videos - TIME - 0 views

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    Bollywood studios aim to make films directly available, via download, to the vast overseas market that contributes a fifth of the industry's revenues.
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    Wikinomics concept: Hollywood won't make films available for immediate download due to their protectiveness of content. For India's Bollywood, this could be their future?
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Tracking device on bins ensures residents chip in - Technology - smh.com.au - 0 views

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    His suspicions grew further when he noticed a small, flat, circular object hidden under the rim of his new bin. About the size of a 10-cent coin, it had the letters "TI-RFid" embossed on it.
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    RFid technology attached to garbage bins to collect data about home owners re-cycling efforts or lack of. (Australia)
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Black Diamond - 0 views

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    This could be an example where Open Source software will challenge commercial producers of web collaboration software. Will it be a Linux? Skype? Apache Server? Audacity?
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    Dimdim is web collaboration software that is free and is open source. It has become available to everyone in the middle of April 2008
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Visualizing Viruses - 0 views

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    MessageLabs commissioned Dragulescu to visualize the threats the company finds in the 3 million messages it scans daily.
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    Virus, spyware code patterns translated to visual representations. May be 3d computing, a type of mashup.
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Microsoft "Clearflow" Helps You Avoid Traffic Jams | Autopia from Wired.com - 0 views

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    Clearflow is an ambitious effort to add AI machine-learning techniques to the complex problem of predicting traffic congestion.
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MySpace Signs Deal to Aim Its Content for Overseas TV - New York Times - 0 views

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    MySpace hopes to provide an alternative pilot process. Rather than spend millions of dollars on a test TV episode that might never receive a series order, the company hopes to use its social network as a test bed.
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PC World - Business Center: FCC Calls for Mobile Alert System - 0 views

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    The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has moved to set up a system that would send text alerts to people on their mobile phones in case of natural disasters and other emergencies.
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Starbucks customers stampede website - web - Technology - smh.com.au - 0 views

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    Hundreds of coffee-obsessed consumers chimed in moments after Starbucks launched a Web site asking customers to pitch changes the company should make to revive its struggling US business.
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    A good current example where a large business is asking customers what it can do to improve its business. It is asking for the collective wisdom of its 'prosumers'. This strategy is very much advocated in Wikinomics.
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Google App Engine: Cashing in on the user data | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com - 0 views

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    This is a good example on how data can / will be collected indirectly (implicitly).
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    It's not evil, but they are tracking users and clickstreams, which (are) the real currency of the Web, and most people don't care. If you can get all data, you can target ads and the user experience, such as showing a site in a different color, depending on user profile."
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China uncensors Wikipedia - The INQUIRER - 0 views

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    CHINESE GOVERNMENT CENSORS have apparently slightly loosened their iron grip on yet another website, this time, Wikipedia.
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Earthquake in Progress: Your Laptop Can Save You! - 0 views

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    The lastest effort in distributed computing tht aims to turn your computer into a node in a vast, distributed earthquake detection network.
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Final Tips for Using Google Documents | ExpertVillage Videos - 0 views

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    Nice examples of short instructional videos on how to use Google Docs. It might stir up the creative juices for the creation of a multimedia artifact?
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horizonproject2008 » Keynote - 0 views

  • Tapscott is the author of 11 widely read books about information technology in business and society, including Paradigm Shift, The Digital Economy, Growing Up Digital and The Naked Corporation. His most recent book, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything is an international best
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      New edition due out on April 17th, 2008. Horizon Project could be mentioned.
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collectiveintelligence » home - 0 views

  • After blogging about this and talking to my network about it, we thought it would be interesting to write something collaboratively using our collective intelligence
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      A new site that is testing the waters to write lengthy prose collaboratively.
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    A new site that is trying to use collaboration to write a lengthy document .
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