opensociety

Dunbar's number it basically says that the most amount of people that you can maintain stable social relationships with is 150

Dunbar's number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.

Morten Hansen's fantastic book on Collaboration in which he states that the real value of collaboration and of networks doesn't come from strong relationships and networks but from weak one's. 

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.

n Q3 2010, the worldwide smart phone market grew an impressive 95% over the same quarter a year ago to 80.9 million shipped units. Nokia retained its leadership position, albeit by a diminished margin, with a 33% share of the market. Apple’s healthy performance this quarter saw it achieve a 17% share worldwide, a little ahead of RIM, which held a 15% share this quarter.

Die Digitale Agenda Die Digitale Agenda soll Europas Wirtschaft im Bereich der Informations-

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.

f you’re not embarrassed when you ship your first version you waited too long

You think your business is different, that you’re only going to have one shot at press and everything needs to be perfect for when Techcrunch brings the world to your door. But if you only have one shot at getting an audience, you’re doing it wrong.

In that short rapid iteration environment the most important thing isn’t necessarily how perfect code is when you send it out, but how quickly you can revert if you need to so the cost of a mistake is really low, under a minute of brokenness.

privacy advocates are pushing for a similar “do not track” feature that would let Internet users tell Web sites to stop surreptitiously tracking their online habits and collecting clues about age, salary, health, location and leisure activities.

Consumer advocates worry that the competing agendas of economic policy makers in the Obama administration, who want uniform international standards, and federal regulators, who are trying to balance consumer protection and commercial rights, will neglect the interests of people most affected by the privacy policies.

In the 1990s, the Commerce Department had an extremely prominent role in developing what we think of as Internet policy, and we are reinvigorating that historical role

How do you permanently delete profile information on social networking websites? Can you transfer your contacts and photos to another service?

Individuals

should have the "right to be forgotten" when their data is no longer needed or they want their data to be deleted

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