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Wikileaks (website) publishes documents that show a plan to curb the free software in the European Union.

This file shows that Jonathan Zuck, president of Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) –an organization with close ties to Microsoft–, and founder of Americans for Technology Leadership, had influenced the change of working documents of the European Union.

This publication shows how pressure groups influence or attempt to influence the decisions made by the European institutions, but in this case is particularly striking one of these groups trying to influence against free software (ACT) has close ties Microsoft,

Create a management framework that accepts and rewards internal entrepreneurs.

Government 2.0 is a citizen-centric philosophy and strategy that believes the best results are usually driven by partnerships between citizens and government, at all levels.  It is focused entirely on achieving goals through increased efficiency, better management, information transparency, and citizen engagement and most often leverages newer technologies to achieve the desired outcomes.

Government employees are traditionally risk-averse, a good thing when the pace of change is relatively slow.  However, in today's fast-paced world the pace of government change, the pace of government execution is often too slow.

Um diese Hilfen des Denkens zu verbessern, haben die Menschen das Wissen zunächst aufgeschrieben und fangen nun an möglichst alles zu digitalisieren und das so gespeicherte Wissen dann zu verbinden. Wenn man eines Tages ein eBook erfände, dass sich mit anderen verbinden würde sowie mit dem Netz hätte man eine Chance soziales Lesen einzuführen.

Überfluß Wir leben in den Zeiten des Überflußes, nicht Überfluß an Geld oder Wasser aber eben an digitalisiertem Wissen. Es gibt aber auch einen Überfluß an Mist, an Überflüssigem. Leider sind wir gut darin, mit dem Überfluß des Schlechten und Unnützen umzugehen (Spamfilter) nicht aber darin, mit dem vielen Wissen etwas anzufangen.

Links/Verbindungen Früher hatte alles Wissen seinen Platz und konnte durch seine Registrierungs- oder Archivnummer gefunden werden. Jetzt ist alles mit allem verbunden. Keiner weiß, was wirklich wichtig ist und was wichtig sein wird und vor allem warum.

Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct “peer to peer” messaging like Skype — to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order.

The bill, which the Obama administration plans to submit to lawmakers next year, raises fresh questions about how to balance security needs with protecting privacy and fostering innovation.

But law enforcement officials contend that imposing such a mandate is reasonable and necessary to prevent the erosion of their investigative powers.

The whole section "Minority investment evaluations aren’t real" is so economically bizarre and incorrect that I don't even know where to start. It's like you wrote a blog post arguing that it is incorrect to refer to a 5' tall boy as 5' tall because he's often sitting down. Every single day every single public company in the world is valued by the last share traded, usually for a tiny fraction of the company.Finally, to the main point. Facebook has certainly figured out how to make money off of 500,000,000 users. And as they optimize, they will make a lot more money. When they figure out how to make another DIME off of every user, they will instantly be making another $50,000,000 a year... in pure profit. How much profit will 37signals make if you figure out how to make another dime off of every customer? Eh David? Facebook works on the theory that when you have a lot of people, you don't have to make as much per person, because the amount of money you make is the number of customers times the amount of money you make off of each one. Again, that pesky multiplication.

The bond and equity markets are based on sound regulation, transparency, and quarterly statements. Facebook has none of those things when it operates in the dark of the secondary markets.