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Johann Höchtl

Netflix's Secret Special Algorithm Is a Human - The New Yorker - 0 views

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    I do not doubt that companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Google rely more on data every day. But the best human curators still maintain their supremacy. Data may help, but what may matter more is a sense of what appeals to the hearts of obsessive people, and who can deliver that. And what that suggests is that competition will remain possible for companies that aren't Amazon or Netflix, without massive piles of data on hand.
Johann Höchtl

Open Data: Empowering the Empowered or Effective Data Use for Everyone? « Gur... - 2 views

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opendata empowering literacy lawsuit

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  • Efforts to extend access to “data” will perhaps inevitably create a “data divide” parallel to the oft-discussed “digital divide” between those who have access to data which could have significance in their daily lives and those who don’t.
  • What is necessary as well, is that those for whom access is being provided are in a position to actually make use of the now available access
  • open data” empowers those with access to the basic infrastructure and the background knowledge and skills to make use of the data for specific ends.
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  • The newly digitized and openly accessible data allowed the well to do to take the information provided and use that as the basis for instructions to land surveyors and lawyers
  • 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.
  • The key difference here was the attention that was paid by the provider of the information, the CHPR to ensuring that the data could be effectively used without the need for highly skilled (and expensive) professional intermediaries.
Parycek

Gordon Brown and Tim Berners Lee: Back to the Future? - 0 views

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opengov opendata uk strategy

shared by Parycek on 27 Mar 10 - Cached
  • First to digitalise – to make Britain the leading superfast broadband
  • Second to personalise –
  • Third to economise – in the Pre-Budget Report we set out our determination to find £11 billion of savings by driving up operational efficiency,
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  • d I want to go much further in harnessing the power of technology to refashion the structures and workings of government
  • s can open the door to a reinvention of the core policy-making processes and towards a renewal of politics itself
  • to replace the first generation of e-government with a much more interactive second generation form of digital engagement which we are calling Mygov
  • s open, personalised platform will allow us to deliver universal services that are also tailored to the needs of each individual
  • to move from top-down, monolithic websites broadcasting public service information in the hope that the people who need help will find it – to government on demand.
  • survey freely available to the public, without restrictions on re-use. Further details on the package and government’s response to the consultation will be published by the end of March.
  • in the autumn the Government will publish online an inventory of all non-personal datasets held by departments and arms-length bodies – a “domesday book” for the 21st century.
Johann Höchtl

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

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 27 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • 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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