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Video-conferencing firm's clients include the US government, Amnesty International and Spotify. A Norwegian videoconferencing company whose technology is used by the US government, Amnesty International, Spotify and PayPal is seeking to raise $200m in what could be the largest software IPO in Scandinavia.

Wiki.js is a Javascript-based wiki you can run on your computer or (better) in the cloud. It is open source and based on Node. It uses any of a number of database engines and runs on most platforms. There are modules available that allow you to run analytics, use social authentication, and choose the content editor you wish to use, and sync and backup your content to a number of storage services.

maybe one major country is ahead compared to one other major country, but this tends to make us forget that it is still behind 20 other countries.

Howard Rheingold: "Now that so many are forced to use online media to communicate, let's use this opportunity to create many smaller virtual communities and social networks outside the enclosed world of Facebook."

"call on governments to use the data-driven management techniques common in the private sector to find out how best to respond to the employment disruption that is coming. These include using "A/B" testing of alternative options to do small trials of new social policies designed to counteract the impact of automation, before expanding them to entire populations."

This is an interesting point of view which reminds me of the Solid-discussion we had. Solid allows the user to control her data and to have an overview of personal data. It also allows seamless integration of many information types and as such it can be used to streamline information at companies and institutions. So Solid could just as well be used to connect seamlessly many types of information about you and me. Maybe we could still consult that information in readable-but-not-writable form, but it would be of even bigger interest to surveillance professionals from states and private companies who probably would have to means to get this information in a readable and writable form.

Transscript of DWeb panel. "Many of us know that the Internet is broken, so how do we build something better? On September 22, DWeb San Francisco invited a panel of experts to share their views on the most viable paths forward. The panelists included author & EFF advisor Cory Doctorow, Matrix.org co-founder Amandine Le Pape, decentralized social media researcher Jay Graber, and TechDirt's Mike Masnick. They covered a range of approaches - including technical, regulatory, and organizational - that could bring us towards a future where our networks are more resilient, participatory, and decentralized."

AI, facial recognition, and a good old authoritarian regime gives us... cyberpunk

This page explains how you can auto-save the text chat from any Zoom session you join.

A car teaches itself how to drive, by watching us.

For the scrapers among us.

Title: Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door Excerpt: As the Facebook CEO travels across the US to 'learn about people's hopes and challenges', the cafeteria workers at his company struggle to make en…

Title: Google's DeepMind made an AI that can imagine the future Excerpt: Google's London-based AI outfit DeepMind has created two different types of AI that can use their 'imagination' to plan ahead and perform tasks with a higher success rate than …

more surveillance

When to use Zoom, when virtual worlds, or a combination of both

Points out whats missing in the set of tools METACAUGS is using together

"The Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory (TRCC) networks and builds capacity for community resilience leaders working at the regional and translocal scale in the USA. We bring together diverse stakeholders to collaborate and allocate resources together, to share best practices and build organization capacity. Through relationships and trust, we form collaborative projects to build movement capacity. Some of the organizations we bring together include Art of Hosting, BayLocalize, Bioneers, New Economy Coalition, Post Carbon Institute, Shareable, Transition US and more. "