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Noella Edelmann

A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook. - By Vaughan... - 0 views

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    "Don't Touch That Dial!A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook."
Johann Höchtl

While Facebook & Twitter Sit on Sidelines, MySpace Jumps Into Bulk User Data Sales - 0 views

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    Myspace verkauft Benutzerdaten
Parycek

TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a tiny URL - 0 views

shared by Parycek on 20 Mar 10 - Cached
  • This TinyURL may have been copied to your clipboard. (This no longer works for those who have upgraded to Flash 10.) To paste it in a document, press and hold down the ctrl key (command key for Mac users) while pressing the V key, or choose the "paste" option from the edit menu.
Parycek

Twitter Search is Upgraded - 0 views

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

Gordon Brown proposes personalised MyGov web services | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • 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.
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    In Großbritannien versucht man ein ähnliches Portal wie MyPage in Norwegen umzusetzen
Johann Höchtl

How Open Data is Used Against the Poor - 0 views

  • An 'effective use' approach to open data would thus be one that ensured that opportunities and resources for translating this open data into useful outcomes would be available (and adapted) for the widest possible range of users. Thus, to ensure the effective use of open data a range of considerations needs to be included in the open data process and as elements in the open data movement including such factors as the cost and availability of Internet access, the language in which the data is presented, the technical or professional requirements for interpreting and making use of the data, the availability of training in data use and visualization, among others.
Johann Höchtl

Open Data (2): Effective Data Use « Gurstein's Community Informatics - 0 views

  • I will itemize what I think are the various elements that are required to be in place on the end user side for effective use of open data to take place
  • Internet access
  • Computer/software skills
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  • Interpretation/Sense making
  • Governance – the required financing, legal, regulatory or policy regime, required to enable the use to which the data would be put.
Johann Höchtl

High Scalability - High Scalability - Web 2.0 Killed the Middleware Star - 0 views

  • Web 2.0 applications don’t generally use a middleware tier to facilitate messaging across users or applications. They use APIs and web-based database access methods to go directly to the source.
  • it certainly appears that between cloud computing models and Web 2.0 having been forced to solve the shared messaging concept without middleware – and having done so successfully – that middleware as a service is obsolete.
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