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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

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  • Sandra Rivera on 24 May 10
     
    To achieve accesibility to open data it is necessary to overcome political and technical barriers
Sandra Rivera

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

openthecode.blogspot.com/...icenses-and-open-software.html

licenses open source open software blog post #ARIN6902

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  • Sandra Rivera on 24 May 10
     
    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

Firefox, Chrome, Safari have finally killed Internet Explorer - 0 views

www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/...nally_killed_internet_explorer

bowsers explorer open source #ARIN6902

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  • IE dropped below 60% — 59.79% to be precise. 59.79% sounds like a lot, but you need to remember that IE comes pre-installed on most computers sold in the world.
  • So, a great percentage of that 40.21% who doesn’t use explorer are people who had to actively do something (see: download another browser and install it) to give IE the boot.
  • It will be hard for IE to get that market share back. The trend is not looking good. Even if the other browsers magically started declining, IE has another problem: the mobile world.
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  • I have only ever met one person in my life with a Windows Mobile phone, and they hated using it.
  • We did it for the browser, and it was quite a challenge. We did it with hard work, advocacy, sweat. We did it for the browser… and we can do the same for the desktop world as a whole.
  • Sandra Rivera on 24 May 10
     
    No, I don't agree that Internet Explorer is dead. However, there has been a significant progress in the adoption of alternative browsers, which is a healthy way to avoid a monopoly in browsers, which are the gate to internet for end users.  The decline in the use of IE thanks to the participation of open source browsers is acknowledged here. 
Sandra Rivera

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

www.whitehouse.gov/tech

#ARIN6902 open code open source whitehouse

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  • 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.
  • Sandra Rivera on 18 May 10
     
    The Whitehouse released the code of the open platform developed for whitehouse.org, to encourage reviews and improvements to the platform
Sandra Rivera

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

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

facebook #ARIN6902 privacy google open code

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  • 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?
Sandra Rivera

What is code? A conversation with Deleuze, Guattari and code by David M. Berry and Jo P... - 2 views

intertheory.org/berry.htm

code deleuze guattari postmodernism #ARIN6902

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  • So, we ask what is code? Not expecting to find answers, but rather to raise questions. To survey and map realms that are yet to come (AO:5). The key for us lies in code's connectivity, it is a semiotic-chain, rhizomatic (rather like a non-hierarchical network of nodes) and hence our map must allow for it to be interconnected from anything to anything.
  • code is pure concept instantiated into the  languages of machines. Coding is the art of forming, inventing and fabricating structures based on these languages. Structures that constrain use as well as free. The coder is the friend of the code, the potentiality of the code, not merely forming, inventing and fabricating code but also desiring. The electric hymn book that Happolati invented. With electric letters that shine in the dark?
Sandra Rivera

Internet approaches addressing limit - BBC News - - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...10105978.stm

#ARIN6902 IP address IPv4

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  • Sandra Rivera on 18 May 10
     
    Under IPv4, remains only a 7% of IP addresses to be assigned, which are expected to be depleted by April 2012
Sandra Rivera

First non-Latin domain name goes live, trips out browsers -- Engadget - 0 views

www.engadget.com/...e-goes-live-trips-out-browsers

icann urls #ARIN6902

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  • Sandra Rivera on 11 May 10
     
    ICANN allowed last year the use of characters different from latin for URLs, but only this week the first URL with arabic characters was published.
Sandra Rivera

Can people actually 'own' virtual land? - CNN.com - 0 views

edition.cnn.com/...index.html

second life property rights internet governance #ARIN6902

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  • Sandra Rivera on 11 May 10
     
    People who own land and have invested on having properties on Second Life have filed a demand against Linden Lab. An interesting study case that illustrate how online issues can have deep impact on offline matters.
Sandra Rivera

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

openthecode.blogspot.com/...h-standards-power-and-end.html

apple flash power #ARIN6902 blog post

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  • Sandra Rivera on 10 May 10
     
    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
Sandra Rivera

Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 1 views

www.eff.org/...facebook-timeline

facebook privacy #ARIN6902

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  • Sandra Rivera on 30 Apr 10
     
    Over the years, Facebook has changed its privacy policy, increasingly restricting  the control that users have of their own privacy.
Sandra Rivera

Government requests directed to Google and YouTube - 0 views

www.google.com/governmentrequests

google censorship australia

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  • Sandra Rivera on 21 Apr 10
     
    Google shows in this maps the requests that different governments have done to remove contents from their services, including the Australian government. A more than respectable effort on transparency.
Sandra Rivera

Conroy's filter plan unworkable, says Google Australia | The Australian - 1 views

www.theaustralian.com.au/...story-e6frgakx-1225844270444

google filtering australia censorship #ARIN6902

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  • The strong view from parents was that the government's proposal goes too far and would take away their freedom of choice around what information they and their children can access.
  • Sandra Rivera on 20 Apr 10
     
    Google Australia says here that the mandatory internet filtering is too wide and they believe that the filtering not only would slow user access speeds, but also questions the legitimacy of the measure because of the associated restrictions on access to information
Sandra Rivera

Stop The Madness Steve Jobs! - 0 views

stopthemadnessstevejobs.com/wordpress

apple developers code #ARIN6902 open code

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  • Sandra Rivera on 13 Apr 10
     
    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

FT.com / UK - Mexico's mobile users face return to telecoms 'stone age' - 1 views

www.ft.com/...37-11df-b327-00144feab49a.html

Mexico #ARIN6902 privacy cellphones registration government

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  • Sandra Rivera on 10 Apr 10
     
    The Mexican government approved a law that creates a national registry of mobile phone users, forcing people to provide their private information to associate mobile numbers with a registrated customer. More than 30m citizens are facing the possibility of service disruption if they don't comply with the forced registration.
Sandra Rivera

U.K. Approves Crackdown on Internet Pirates - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...09piracy.html

piracy uk #ARIN6902

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  • Sandra Rivera on 09 Apr 10
     
    As a response to lobbying from entertainment industry, the UK has become the second country to approve laws to punish piracy, where offenders can face temporary suspensions of their internet accounts
Sandra Rivera

Court Backs Comcast Over FCC - WSJ.com - 0 views

online.wsj.com/...3411604575167782845712768.html

network neutrality comcast FCC #ARIN6902

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  • Sandra Rivera on 07 Apr 10
     
    Court decision suggests that American internet operators are not forced to maintain net neutrality. The sentence implies that FCC has no authority to demand from internet providers a neutral treatment of the traffic that they manage on their networks
Sandra Rivera

Technology Coalition Urges Stronger Online Privacy Laws - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...31privacy.html

privacy laws #ARIN6902

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  • Sandra Rivera on 04 Apr 10
     
    Digital Due Process is the name of a new coalition composed among other companies by Google, Microsoft and AT&T advocationg for a new legislation to strenght online privacy laws to prevent government access to private digital information in the US
Sandra Rivera

Google Searches for a Foreign Policy - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...28landler.html

google microsoft clay shirky china #ARIN6902 censorship

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  • Sandra Rivera on 04 Apr 10
     
    Google's position about internet filtering on China reveals the need for internet companies to develop their own foreign policies. Clay Shirky is interviewed on the topic and he shares his view about how the social effects of internet and how different are the mentalities behind microsoft and google
Sandra Rivera

Dot-com marks 25th anniversary - CNN.com - 0 views

edition.cnn.com/...index.html

domain names dot.com internet #ARIN6902

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  • Sandra Rivera on 04 Apr 10
     
    The first commercial domain name in internet was symbolics.com, 25 years have passed since then
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