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My idea for today is that established nations could launch startup countries within their own borders, free of all the legacy restrictions in the parent country. The startup country, let's say the size of modern day Israel, would be designed from the ground up for efficiency.

The entire banking system would be automated. There would be no cash in the start-up country. You wouldn't need to "apply" for a loan because the virtual bank would always have a current notion of your credit-worthiness.

The tax code in the startup country would be simplified to the point where residents might forget it exists.

In fact, Obama's base of small donors was almost exactly the same percent as George W. Bush's in 2004 -- Obama had 26% and the great Republican satan 25%. Obviously, this is unacceptable to current popular thinking.

The myth is that money from small donors dominated Barack Obama's finances

It comes down to which definition of "small donor" you accept

Google Caffeine — the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out across Google's worldwide data center network earlier this year — is not based on MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform that famously underpinned the company's previous indexing system. As the likes of Yahoo!, Facebook, and Microsoft work to duplicate MapReduce through the open source Hadoop project, Google is moving on.

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until  2003, according to Schmidt. That’s something like five exabytes of data, he says. Let me repeat that: we create as much information in two days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003.

It is my firm belief that we cannot expect citizens to trust Europe if we are not serious in defending the right to privacy

The first is our work with social networking sites.

The second example is RFID

Android Takes OS Lead in US Market for Q3

Android is up 1,309 percent from this time last year and now holds an impressive quarter of the smartphone market.

android outsold iphone almost 2:1 that too in a quarter where new version of iPhone was released.

We face many challenges today, none more urgent than the economic crisis, but with it comes an opportunity to seek new ways of governing. In San Francisco, like other cities, we are using this opportunity to engage our greatest resource, the public, to build a government that works better for all of us.

ought that the best way to round

Call it relationship inflation.

Trust

Disempowerment

In the past few months, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked us how a Netflix Prize sequel might affect Netflix members' privacy, and a lawsuit was filed by KamberLaw LLC pertaining to the sequel.

In light of all this, we have decided to not pursue the Netflix Prize sequel that we announced on August 6, 2009.We will continue to explore ways to collaborate with the research community and improve our recommendations system so we can constantly improve the movie recommendations we make for you. So stay tuned.

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ady see a complete feed of TopTweets via Twitters new account that retweets the most buzzing updates from every Twitter users.

Learning from Dell

Customers are in control. Work with them and learn from them. Real conversations are two-way. Think before you talk—but always be yourself. Address any form of dissatisfaction head on. Be aware that any conversation can become global at any time. Size doesn't matter—relevance does. Just as one journalist can trigger a newscycle, one blogger can do the same. Don't be afraid to apologize. Develop direct links to customer community (IdeaStorm for Dell), listen for how we can improve. One customer is part of many communities. Teamwork, transparency and frequent consistent communication are key in this new world. No shortcuts are possible. Implementing business change requires much effort across departments.

Engage our people to make it work

A MyGov dashboard that allows every citizen to personalise the explosive growth of government services on the web was proposed today by Gordon Brown.

Brown said MyGov, which will eventually replace DirectGov, will end the current frustration of web users needing to identify themselves separately for different public services. He also said the dashboard will allow the citizen to manage their pensions, tax credits and child benefits, as well as pay council tax, fix doctors or hospital appointments, apply for schools of their choice and communicate with children's teachers.

The 2010 United Nations e-Government Survey: Leveraging e-government at a time of financial and economic crisis was completed in December 2009 and launched in early 2010.

The public trust that is gained through transparency can be further enhanced through the free sharing of government data based on open standards.

112th Congress live in Congress API

all members of the 112th Congress are now available in our Congress API

All members are now added along with their ids on other sites

I have said it before, and I say it again: yes to open data!

By involving third parties we can both improve services and be more transparent. That would be the definition of weGov.

we announce TileMill, a project that brings map design to new audiences and pushes a modular, open source stack that's fast, easy to use, and intelligent