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Johann Höchtl

Scott Adams Blog: Startup Country 07/27/2010 - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 27 Jul 10 - Cached
  • 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.
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  • Most of what is scary about the government having power is the lack of transparency. The startup nation would have full transparency. Any citizen could log on to his computer and see what court orders had been issued for what videos and why.
  • Arguably, China accidentally performed a variant of this experiment with Hong Kong. Oversimplifying the history, Hong Kong was part of China and leased to the United Kingdom for 99 years, like a startup country within a country.
  • Judith Schossboeck on 29 Jul 10
     
    über das bin ich auch schon gestolpert. interesting!
Parycek

Crowdsourcing landscape - Discussion « Getting Results from Crowdsourcing - 0 views

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  • Parycek on 18 Jul 10
     
    The Crowdsourcing Landscape is intended to be a starting point for conversation. This is Beta version 1.0 of the landscape. Based on your comments and feedback we will improve it and create the next versions.
Parycek

SMALL CHANGE Why the revolution will not be tweeted - 2 views

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shared by Parycek on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coördinate, and give voice to their concerns
  • There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.” The cadre of prominent bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan, who championed the role of social media in Iran, Esfandiari continued, misunderstood the situation. “Western journalists who couldn’t reach—or didn’t bother reaching?—people on the ground in Iran simply scrolled through the English-language tweets post with tag #iranelection,” she wrote. “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”
  • The platforms of social media are built around weak ties. Twitter is a way of following (or being followed by) people you may never have met. Facebook is a tool for efficiently managing your acquaintances, for keeping up with the people you would not otherwise be able to stay in touch with. That’s why you can have a thousand “friends” on Facebook, as you never could in real life.
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  • “Social networks are particularly effective at increasing motivation,”
  • But that’s not true. Social networks are effective at increasing participation—by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires
  • social media are not about this kind of hierarchical organization. Facebook and the like are tools for building networks, which are the opposite, in structure and character, of hierarchies. Unlike hierarchies, with their rules and procedures, networks aren’t controlled by a single central authority. Decisions are made through consensus, and the ties that bind people to the group are loose.
  • There are many things, though, that networks don’t do well. Car companies sensibly use a network to organize their hundreds of suppliers, but not to design their cars.
  • The drawbacks of networks scarcely matter if the network isn’t interested in systemic change—if it just wants to frighten or humiliate or make a splash—or if it doesn’t need to think strategically. But if you’re taking on a powerful and organized establishment you have to be a hierarchy.
  • it is simply a form of organizing which favors the weak-tie connections that give us access to information over the strong-tie connections that help us persevere in the face of danger. It shifts our energies from organizations that promote strategic and disciplined activity and toward those which promote resilience and adaptability
  • Parycek on 13 Dec 10
     
    Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell
Johann Höchtl

Analyzing almost 10 million tweets, research finds public mood can predict Dow days in advance - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Measurements of the collective public mood derived from millions of tweets can predict the rise and fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average up to a week in advance with an accuracy approaching 90 percent
Johann Höchtl

U.S. Teen Mobile Report: Calling Yesterday, Texting Today, Using Apps Tomorrow | Nielsen Wire - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 15 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • 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
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  • Texting is currently the centerpiece of mobile teen behavior. 43 percent claim it is their primary reason for getting a cellphone, which explains why QWERTY input is the first thing they look for choosing their devices.
  • Teens are not only using more data, but they are also downloading a wider range of applications. Software downloads among teen subscribers who use apps enjoyed a solid 12 percent increase in activity versus last year, from 26 to 38 percent.
Johann Höchtl

EUROPA - Press Releases - Viviane Reding Member of the European Commission responsible for Information Society and Media Privacy: the challenges ahead for the European Union Keynote Speech at the Data Protection Day 28 January 2010, European Parliament, B - 0 views

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EU privacy policy Reding socialmedia facebook RFID data

shared by Johann Höchtl on 10 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • 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
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  • My third example is behavioural advertising
  • Businesses must use their power of innovation to improve the protection of privacy and personal data from the very beginning of the development cycle. Privacy by Design
  • Johann Höchtl on 10 Nov 10
     
    Information Society and Media Privacy: the challenges ahead for the European Union
Johann Höchtl

Canalys: Android Takes OS Lead in US Market for Q3 | Android Phone Fans - 0 views

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canalys IPhone Android USA smartphone marketshare

shared by Johann Höchtl on 01 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • 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.
Johann Höchtl

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

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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

Crowd-sourcing is not empowering enough - 0 views

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deliberation Crowd-sourcing edem

shared by Parycek on 08 Mar 10 - Cached
    • Parycek
      Parycek on 20 Mar 10
       
      It invites individuals to foist and endorse (or not) ideas with no pressure to consider the full public consequences of them, including whether they can be sustained across ideological or partisan lines, or how practical they are, or how insulting of public officers. There is the published intention to attract a full range of public perspectives, but instead it tends to attract enclaves of people with committed strategies (eg. embarrass public officials) or perspectives (eg. technology is the answer). While national initiatives attract noise, in more local applications of such ideation, participation is often too thin to be meaningful. This all comes down the question of representativeness. If a governing body is going to legitimately use these ideas, and be compelled to do so, then there has to be good evidence that the contributors do actually form a descriptive representation of the public being governed. I think if you have a technical problem that requires particular expertise, then such ideation processes can find the needle in the haystack. Those of us who subscribe to technical forums know how well that works. I think some people feel that public policy ideation works the same way, but it doesn't because in a contested political environment, what "should be done" is claimed on normative rather than technical grounds. Another metaphor for the ranking in ideation is consumer selection, which many in political science would model as rational choice, privileging private over public interests. Should that be the motor for the selection of public policy? I write all this knowing full well that I risk throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I just think we can do better. Some ideation processes should invite people randomly, to ensure full demographic spread on relevant dimensions (eg. age, education, political leaning). Let's have multi-stage processes, where contributors do more than just introduce and rank ideas--to their credit, thi
  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    I fear that ultimately crowd-sourcing is damaging the enterprise of dialogue and deliberation (D&D).
Parycek

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

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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

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shared by Parycek on 02 Apr 10 - Cached
  • ady see a complete feed of TopTweets via Twitters new account that retweets the most buzzing updates from every Twitter users.
Johann Höchtl

SSRN-How Different are Young Adults from Older Adults When it Comes to Information Privacy Attitudes and Policies? by Chris Hoofnagle, Jennifer King, Su Li, Joseph Turow - 0 views

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  • Johann Höchtl on 17 Apr 10
     
    Sicherheits- und Datenschutzbedenken von Jugendlichen in den USA tl;dr: Jugendliche in den USA sind sich durchaus der Gefahr exzessiver Exposition im Internet bewusst. Auch auf Zotero!
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

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

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mygov personalisation UK brown norway

shared by Johann Höchtl on 23 Apr 10 - Cached
  • 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.
  • Johann Höchtl on 23 Apr 10
     
    In Großbritannien versucht man ein ähnliches Portal wie MyPage in Norwegen umzusetzen
Judith Schossboeck

Over 50% of the World's Population is Under 30 - Social Media on the Rise - 0 views

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  • Judith Schossboeck on 26 Apr 10
     
    Bold predictions: 1. Facebook's main competition may come from China 2. Physical paper newspapers will be done by 2014 3. Television as we know it today will be done by 2016 (served over IP)
Johann Höchtl

Defining Gov 2.0 and Open Government | Gov 2.0: The Power of Platforms - 1 views

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opengov gov2.0 platform Shirky

shared by Johann Höchtl on 28 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • The future of open government is allowing seamless conversations to occur between thousands of employees and people … You can’t divorce open government from technology. Technology enables the conversation and supports the conversation. We’re finding that if we don’t stand in the way of that conversation, incredible things can happen.
  • will open government be able to tap into the “civic surplus” to solve big problems. That’s Clay Shirky‘s “cognitive surplus,” applied to citizens and government. For open government to succeed, conveners need to get citizens to participate
Johann Höchtl

Senate Passes Landmark Patent Reform Bill - Datamation.com - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 10 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved landmark legislation to overhaul the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a reform effort more than half a decade in the making that aims to improve the quality of patents and curb frivolous litigation.
  • Excluded from the bill was a controversial amendment, backed by many tech companies, that would have eased the process for initiating an in-house administrative review process at the Patent Office for challenges to patents that have been granted, a measure billed as a less costly alternative to private litigation.
  • The Senate bill would transition the Patent Office to a so-called first-to-file system, bringing the U.S. system in line with the patent regimes of much of the rest of the world. The shift would confer patent rights on the first inventor or company to file an application, rather than the current first-to-invent system
Johann Höchtl

Home - IMMI - 0 views

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island eParticipation draft constitution

shared by Johann Höchtl on 13 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Home From IMMI Jump to: navigation, search The International Modern Media Institute is working towards rethinking media regulation for the digital age.
  • The Icelandic Parliament unanimously agreed to task the government with implementing the protections we proposed, and this work is now in progress.
  • Johann Höchtl on 13 Jun 11
     
    International modern media institute - an adivsor to the Island parliament to harness public creativity in co-drafting a collaborative constiution
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