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Johann Höchtl

National Rail Have Killed My UK Train Times App - 0 views

mocko.org.uk/...have-killed-my-train-times-app

opendata national rail UK close API

shared by Johann Höchtl on 03 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • About a year ago I wrote a simple web application to present UK train times in a simple format for mobile phone users.
  • When I wrote the app none of the official train timetable sites could do this and I don’t believe any can now.
  • To reiterate – I built this because it was convenient and would be useful to others.  Not to make a profit. …and today National Rail killed it.
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  • the page on London Datastore has now been locked.  “Access Denied”.  Possibly because a lot of discussion appeared on there which was critical of ATOC’s decision to extract money from users of the service
  •  If you’re a user of the application and disagree with National Rail’s greed in trying to make money out of a data source which was hitherto free, I can only suggest you email nrelicensing@atoc.org and express your concerns.
  • Johann Höchtl on 03 Nov 10
     
    Open Data API von National Railway UK wurde geschlossen - die Daten können potentiell zu viel Geld bringen
Parycek

Usability of Websites for Teenagers - 0 views

www.useit.com/...teenagers.html

howto usability research teenagers report study nielsen

shared by Parycek on 20 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    When using websites, teenagers have a lower success rate than adults and they're also easily bored. To work for teens, websites must be simple -- but not childish -- and supply plenty of interactive features.(Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Parycek

Poll: Stakeholders & Web 2.0 - 0 views

archivesoutside.records.nsw.gov.au/poll-stakeholders-web-2-0

web20 au Gov20 opengov

shared by Parycek on 20 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    Simple question for organisations: How does your organisation engage stakeholders with Web 2.0?
Johann Höchtl

The Economics of Open Data - Mini-Case, Transit Data & TransLink | eaves.ca - 0 views

eaves.ca/...ni-case-transit-data-translink

economic impact open data

shared by Johann Höchtl on 23 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Being the monopoly holder of transit data does not benefit TransLink.
  • Consumers don't turn to who has the data, they turn to who makes the data easiest to use.
  • It should be focused on shifting the competitive value in the marketplace from access to accessibility.
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  • The simple fact is that Google maps is radically easier to use for planning transit journeys than TransLink's own website AND THAT IS A GOOD THING FOR TRANSLINK.
Johann Höchtl

Geo2Gov Mashup interview « Communica - 0 views

www.communica.com.au/...terview-with-a-mashup-hacker-2

opendata Australia GPS location address

shared by Johann Höchtl on 30 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The simple summary is that geo2gov is a spatial search engine. The longer version is that geo2gov takes a location in a variety of different formats (address, postcode, suburb, place name, ip address, etc) and converts them to a GPS location, then drills that point through half a dozen spatial layers to identify federal, state, local and ward level locations, as well as your statistical location within the most recent census.
  • Johann Höchtl on 30 Nov 10
     
    Winner of MashupAustralia Hackfest Geo2Gov
Parycek

Twitter, SXSW, and Building a 21st Century Business - 0 views

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twitter hbr future

shared by Parycek on 18 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Principles, not product.
  • Be a force for good. That's Twitter's new foundational principle — and it's interesting because it takes Google's foundational principle and does it one better.
  • Openness as a survival strategy. I
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  • Twitter's been focused on openness, and his response was that it's a "survival strategy." New ideas, new concepts, new applications — all flow to open organizations. That's a great way to express the point that for next-gen organizations, openness is now table stakes: fail at it, and you're not even in the game.
  • That's what 21st century organizations look like: networks, not pyramids.
  • Doors versus windows
  • That's pretty radical. Wall St, Detroit, Big Food, Big Software and HMOs are just a few for whom win/wins have mattered little, if at all. It's a simple, powerful way to frame next-gen strategy in a nutshell.
  • , Ev said: better connections, better information — better choices
  • Just as the fundamental challenge of the 21st century is making authentically, meaningfully better stuff, for the 21st century media it's communicating in better ways — not simply bombarding the reader-"consumer" with more, bigger, louder ads.
  • Erasing information asymmetries is where the future of advertising lies. But you can't get there unless you can build a 21st century business first.
  • Parycek on 18 Mar 10
     
    Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
Johann Höchtl

OpenData + R + Google = Easy Maps - 1 views

www.r-bloggers.com/opendata-r-google-easy-maps

statistics R google visualisation chart

shared by Johann Höchtl on 11 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • The release of the R package “googleVis” has made the production of interactive maps through Google’s Chart Tools a simple task.
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