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Sandra Rivera

Making Public Records Public: Why open formats are essential for sharing and preserving... - 0 views

opensource.com/...ntial-sharing-and-preserving-g

open data formats open source open standards #ARIN6902

shared by Sandra Rivera on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Sandra Rivera on 24 May 10
     
    To achieve accesibility to open data it is necessary to overcome political and technical barriers
yunju wang

It's All Semantics: Open Data, Linked Data & The Semantic Web - 1 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...a_linked_data_semantic_web.php

semantric web

shared by yunju wang on 02 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Open Data
  • data that has been uploaded to the Web and is accessible to all, but isn't necessarily "linked" to other data sets.
  • yunju wang on 02 Apr 10
     
    some explaination about linked data, and semetric web.
Sandra Rivera

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

www.wired.com/...facebook-becomes-web

facebook #ARIN6902 privacy google open code

shared by Sandra Rivera on 18 May 10 - Cached
  • 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.
  • Sandra Rivera on 18 May 10
     
    Are we using facebook or is facebook using us?
Rachael Bolton

I-O Data Signs Linux Software Patent Agreement With Microsoft - 1 views

www.microsoft.com/...03-03IODataPR.mspx

intellectual property licencing open source Linux

shared by Rachael Bolton on 09 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Rachael Bolton on 09 Mar 10
     
    Microsoft Corp and I-O Data Device have entered into an agreement that will provide I-O Data's customers with patent coverage for their use of I-O Data's products running Linux and other related open source software.
  • Rachael Bolton on 09 Mar 10
     
    Find the whole idea vaguely repulsive. See Slashdot: "The Japanese computer manuracturer IO Data is the latest in line to license Microsoft's so-called 'Linux patents,' following the likes of Novell, Samsung, and Amazon. Yes, even the press releases use the word 'Linux' to describe these patents. From the press release: 'Specifically, the patent covenants apply to I-O Data's network-attached storage devices and its routers, which run Linux. Although the details of the agreement have not been disclosed, the parties indicated that Microsoft is being compensated by I-O Data.'" http://bit.ly/bmxIO4
Tiana Stefanic

Decentralize the web with Diaspora - Kickstarter - 0 views

www.kickstarter.com/...lly-controlled-do-it-all-distr

internet cultures governance privacy social networking facebook open source diaspora

shared by Tiana Stefanic on 22 May 10 - Cached
  • Tiana Stefanic on 22 May 10
     
    There has been some controversy about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's comments in an online chat from 2006 that surfaced recently. He told a friend that Facebook users were dumb for trusting him and submitting private, personal information on his then-fledgling website. An initiative by four young programmers to counteract the negative effects that Facebook has had on privacy and the ability of users to control the data they put online is Diaspora. It is a decentralised, open source social network that wants to compete with centralised social networks that allow "spying for free". It will be interesting to see whether the initiative really takes off as a viable alternative to Facebook.
Tiana Stefanic

Mark Zuckerberg Unveils Facebook's Plan For Internet Domination « Forbes.com... - 0 views

blogs.forbes.com/...s-plan-for-internet-domination

internet governance facebook social networking privacy individualisation

shared by Tiana Stefanic on 22 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Tiana Stefanic on 22 Apr 10
     
    The founder and Chief Executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, announced at a recent conference that Facebook's Open Graph project will soon enable an even greater degree of personalisation as people surf the net. I think this probably has implications for user experience, in terms of viewing popular sites through the prism of social networking - and it gives sites more authority to store data about individuals. Because Facebook seems to be so pervasive nowadays, it seems like we won't have much say in the matter...
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  • Andra Keay on 22 Apr 10
     
    Also business implications. This is direct competition for Google's increasingly personalised 'user experience', not just Buzz and the raft of location services but the uniquely personal search that has slipped quietly onto our browsers. How can we be concerned about what governments know about us when we've handed willingly to businesses so much more information!
  • Allison Jones on 23 Apr 10
     
    We do have a choice - don't have a Facebook account. It may make you a social pariah though ;)
  • Tiana Stefanic on 26 Apr 10
     
    Allison, that's a great point, I've tried to quit using the site but I stop when I realise that I won't know about upcoming social events - unfortunately its the primary means of communication used by some friends!
  • Allison Jones on 26 Apr 10
     
    Yes and I think Facebook take full advantage! A lot of my friends have been posting notes on FB about changing privacy settings now that the new features have come in. So, people are trying to resist but in a more subtle way than dropping out of FB altogether.
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