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Substantial businesses have long "re-purposed" what's available from court proceedings, census publications, CIA atlases, and agency scientific and commercial compilations. It seems plausible that release of, say, crime statistics in Cook County, or water flows of the Colorado River, will be valuable to someone. Which datasets are worth processing first, though?

Specialists widely believe what European Commission VP Neelie Kroes and others have said: "Your data is worth more if you give it away." As with many other IT issues, though the people in the best position to make such measurements are too busy creating the future to invest time rigorously justifying it.

Skills, infrastructure, logistics, medium sized businesses, the rural economy and open data will be at the centre of the second phase of the Growth Review, which was launched on the 9th June and will report at the time of the Autumn Statement.

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

Österreichs Bildungssystem gehört - umgelegt auf die Zahl der Schüler und Studenten - zu den teuersten in der OECD. Das geht aus der soeben veröffentlichten OECD-Studie "Bildung auf einen Blick 2010" (Education at a Glance) hervor. Kategorie: OECD-Studie Erstellt am 07.09.2010. Die Ausgaben pro Schüler bzw. Student betrugen 2007 von der Volks- bis zur Hochschule 10.974 US-Dollar (kaufkraftbereinigt) pro Jahr - ein Wert, der deutlich über dem OECD-Schnitt von 8.216 Dollar liegt. Übertroffen wird das nur von den USA (14.269 Dollar), der Schweiz (13.031) und Norwegen (11.967).

The whole section "Minority investment evaluations aren’t real" is so economically bizarre and incorrect that I don't even know where to start. It's like you wrote a blog post arguing that it is incorrect to refer to a 5' tall boy as 5' tall because he's often sitting down. Every single day every single public company in the world is valued by the last share traded, usually for a tiny fraction of the company.Finally, to the main point. Facebook has certainly figured out how to make money off of 500,000,000 users. And as they optimize, they will make a lot more money. When they figure out how to make another DIME off of every user, they will instantly be making another $50,000,000 a year... in pure profit. How much profit will 37signals make if you figure out how to make another dime off of every customer? Eh David? Facebook works on the theory that when you have a lot of people, you don't have to make as much per person, because the amount of money you make is the number of customers times the amount of money you make off of each one. Again, that pesky multiplication.

The bond and equity markets are based on sound regulation, transparency, and quarterly statements. Facebook has none of those things when it operates in the dark of the secondary markets.

If it seems like American teens are texting all the time, it’s probably because on average they’re sending or receiving 3,339 texts a month.

No one texts more than teens (age 13-17), especially teen females, who send and receive an average of 4,050 texts per month. Teen males also outpace other male age groups, sending and receiving an average of 2,539 texts.

Texting is Easier and Faster than Voice Calls

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.

​The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes

become easier to understand.

Internal (intra or inter-government) collaboration. Institutional presence on external social networks Open government data Employees on external social networks 

Increased government efficiency Increased government accountability Increased citizen engagement and participation Increased innovation

Potential loss of privacy Invalid data

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

It's not your traditional ROI model. Back to the culture, it supports the fact that you don't need a hard number at the end of the day. It's the right thing to do, we want to listen to our customers, so let's do it.

... you get the whole funnel of ideas and it's a challenge as to how to disperse them. Everybody has full-time jobs. We make further strides every day in getting reporting and getting everything set up so people can get engaged, on the site and just with the information. To me, that's the hard part. And it goes back to making sure we're listening, making sure we're closing the feedback loop.

Their collaborative agreement on what's most important floats to the top for everyone to see. So you can easily see which are the most popular ideas and which ideas are new, should people want to jump on in and vote on those.

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.

As a joint project of two 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation, OpenGovernment will empower individuals and organizations to track government at every level.

You can support the open-source work on OpenGovernment by becoming a Booster of the non-profit Participatory Politics Foundation (a tax-exempt recurring donation of $1/day), giving a one-time charitable gift, or by forking the code on GitHub and start hacking.

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