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Sandra Rivera

WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code | The White House - 1 views

  • As part of our ongoing effort to develop an open platform for WhiteHouse.gov, we're releasing some of the custom code we've developed. This code is available for anyone to review, use, or modify. We're excited to see how developers across the world put our work to good use in their own applications.
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    The Whitehouse released the code of the open platform developed for whitehouse.org, to encourage reviews and improvements to the platform
Sandra Rivera

open code / open source: Licenses and open software - 0 views

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    Licenses in open software have a double purpose: set conditions of use for end users and reflect the values of the community of developers working on open source model.
Sandra Rivera

open code / open source: Open source as a positive externality for Internet - 2 views

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    Firts post of my internet governance blog. Open source can be considered a positive externality, impacting on the spread of internet
Amit Kelkar

Open Culture Blog - 3 views

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    Blog which writes about issues relating to open access media and links to actual open/free media. 
Sandra Rivera

CodePlex refresh, FOSS projects more compatible with Windows - 0 views

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    This is a surprise... I didn't know Microsoft had their own foundation for open code
Amit Kelkar

http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/how_mozilla_and_open_source_culture_can_inform... - 0 views

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    This article discusses a report which looks at the possibilities of applying an open source model & culture which has been associated with building and proliferating the Mozilla browser to the Obama administration's initiatives to be "more transparent, participatory and collaborative".  
Andra Keay

Craigslist: An ideal model for Internet Governance - 1 views

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    I wasn't previously a plan of Craigslist per se, however, as I'm so excited about the possibilities of peer to peer open source social networking (JoinDiaspora.com) it seems the time to reflect on the addition of a social layer of governance to the internet (Lessig in Code2.0 re identity layer), or the reverse, adding internet architectures to governance, which is Alice Goldmann is describing here.
Sandra Rivera

Today Facebook, Tomorrow the World | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views

  • With a few deft maneuvers, Facebook is aiming to make itself the center of the internet, the central repository and publisher of what users like and do online.
  • Facebook’s main lever to get all this data funneled to them is a simple “I Like” button, which websites can embed on their pages with very little effort.
  • Facebook built much of this easy-to-use system on “open” standards, as WebMonkey’s Michael Calore reports, even as it sucks the data into a closed community. But those standards are used almost exclusively by Facebook, and ignore the work that’s been done by others to create universally understandable meta-data
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  • You can opt out of some of this through Facebook’s increasingly arcane privacy settings, though most won’t do anything to stop Facebook’s relentless push to make people’s profiles public.
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    Are we using facebook or is facebook using us?
Sandra Rivera

Stop The Madness Steve Jobs! - 0 views

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    Developers are not thrilled with Apple's new rules. The restrictions imposed affect the work of developers like Jack Freeman, who here declares himself as a "former loyal developer"
Sandra Rivera

open code / open source: Apple vs Flash: standards, power and the end user - 0 views

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    Apple vs Flash is used to illustrate protocol as a form of control where end users have no saying and are affected with a partial access to internet
Jaeun Yun

China: Threatened by American Internet censorship - 0 views

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    After the Secretary of State in the US Hillary Clinton's speech on Internet freedom, open source source code repository SourceForge.net blocked access to IP addresses originating in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. Open source software provides important infrastructure to these oppressed and developing nations. I hope the American government can see what a blow this is to the infrastructure and fledgling industries in these countries.
Sandra Rivera

Skype To Give Away New SILK Audio Codec - 0 views

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    Skype has put the SILK codec, the backbone of its software, freely available to the developers community in order to receive feedback to improve the codec.
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