SELECTED AS A 2008 BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST. . The Net Generation Has Arrived. . Are you ready for it?. . Chances are you know a person between the ages of 11 and 30. You’ve seen them doing five things at once: texting friends, downloading music, uploading videos, watching... »
From Publishers Weekly In this critical but optimistic overview, academics Palfrey (of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society) and Gasser (of the Swiss U. of St. Gallen) share their concern about the legal and social ramifications of the Internet with regard to the generation of “Digital Natives” born after 1980. In a wide-ranging... »
RSS, XML, API, what other signals do we need to just set the data free! Any holdback of data is 21st Century equivalent of apartheid, yet so many people that control the data are now wholly supportive of releasing it like CDC released www.cdc.gov/metrics. Come on folks, release the data now, release the data now! Don’t be scared, new rules are being written as you think! »
Follow me on Twitter Friend me on Face Book Count my downloads, aren’t they good? How to I reach the Top in Trends? I Matter, What I say Matters This is my Identity, My Friends, My Life But my life is private, so don’t collect information on me »
www.wolframalpha.com aims to beat Google by just answering the question. Let’s say you want to know the answer to what year President Eisenhower died, do you really want a string of links or do you just want to know the answer, March 28, 1969. Designed by British physicist Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram answer engine is be launched in May... »
Best Buy’s announcement todays that is opening its doors to an almost infinite number of new store locations is proof positive of the genius of API’s, the code that allows third parties to dig into your goods, your inventory, your data and offer it up in ways that suit their customer base. Today no... »
