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• P2P and the Social Cloud

  
  P2P Foundation — Authority: 573
  Social networking services available on the web are based upon proprietary software which have the ultimate purpose of advertisement-driven profit which implicitly demands tracking user activities. On the other hand, in order to allow people’s collective intelligence to fully develop by means of their self-organized ...
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• Openness as the Foundation for Global Change

  
  open... — Authority: 558
  What do you do after Inventing the Web? Thats not a question most of us have to face, but it is for Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Heading up the World Wide Web Consortium to oversee the Webs development was a natural move, but valuable as its work has been, theres no denying that it has been sidelined somewhat by the rather ...
  3 days ago

• Is Wikipedia Dying or Just Maturing?

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 563
  There was a very interesting front-page article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday by Julia Angwin and Geoffrey Fowler wondering whether Wikipedia , the wildly popular online encyclopedia, was dying because of new posting guidelines which have apparently led to a drop off in the number of volunteers contributing ...
  6 days ago

• IGF Day 4 and last, Privacy – Incident with China – Human network – more Open Standards – Jordan FOSS – and Final statement

  
  Guysoft's Weblog — Authority: 110
  Hi all, This is the second day of the IGF 2009 and the 4th and last day of my journey. There was a lot to write about, and I had little time back in Israel, so it took a while to publish. I recommend you read my closing statement. Scroll to the titles that interest you: Jordan FOSS community I met this morning ...
  1 week ago

• Inevitability of e-book success?

  
  Open IT Strategies — Authority: 124
  Bloomberg ran a story Friday focusing on the adoption of e-books in college classrooms: As Sony Corp.’s e-book devices vie with the Kindle to win over readers, the real showdown may come later: when a shift to electronic textbooks at schools threatens to eclipse the current market for the products. … Within ...
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• Must-See Video: Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Keynote on The War For The Web

  
  Speaking of Standards — Authority: 100
  This week in New York City, Tim O’Reilly gave a keynote at the Web 2.0 event that I definitely put in my “ must-see ” category. Not because of anything visual … I mean, it’s just Tim standing on stage talking… but because of his message . There is a war on out there on the Internet. It’s a war ...
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• Chrome OS – because you have more than one computer

  
  Andrej Koelewijn — Authority: 107
  Lots of news on Chrome OS today, but nothing to suprising as far as i can tell. Chrome OS is basically just an operating system than boots straight into a (full screen) browser. All your apps will be web apps. Seems logical. Most of the time i just boot my computer to get online: read news, read mail, look at ...
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• Politicians, lobbyists and scapegoats: When choosing not to choose should make you vote the next time

  
  Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards — Authority: 104
  The famous and much awaited  RGI (Référentiel Général d’Interopérabilité)  has officially been published and enacted. This announcement was met with mixed reactions and as I have been following the RGI for quite a few years now, I thought I would write some of my thoughts about it. The RGI is actually old, ...
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• GooHooSoft bear-hugs ‘Apache for web specs’

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 160
  Open source meets open standards Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Facebook, and other web-happy types have embraced a new effort to promote the use of free and open specifications across the net.… ? Read more from the original source: GooHooSoft bear-hugs ‘Apache for web specs’ Related posts: HowTo ...
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• OSOR News: ODF Plugfest article

  
  Commercial Open Source Software — Authority: 414
  OSOR news reported about the second ODF Plugfest , the event held in Orvieto at the beginning of this month bringing together standards experts from major multi-national corporations, representatives of European public administrations, andmany individuals active in the European open source  community. Fabio ...
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• Defining openness: open source, open data, open APIs, open communities, and more

  
  Infotropism — Authority: 112
  A couple of weeks ago I was in Florida giving a talk on Open Source, Open Data in which I tried to describe what open data was. In preparation for that talk, I went looking for definitions of “open” as it applied to either field, and found myself drawing on the following documents: The four software freedoms ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Web in Danger

  
  Anil Dash — Authority: 568
  I love the Internet. I love lots of things that are on the Internet. I have less love for things that want to undermine the Internet. Tim OR eilly, The War for the Web : If youve followed my thinking about Web 2.0 from the beginning, you know that I believe we are engaged in a long term project to build an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chile: Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Data

  
  Between the Poles — Authority: 423
  I have been in Chile most of last week in Santiago, where I gave a presentation at the International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2009).  This is my first time in Chile, and I am extremely impressed by the natural environment, the Andes on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other, and secondly by the quality of ...
  2 weeks ago

• New blog: Books 2.0

  
  Adobe Blogs — Authority: 610
  As noted earlier, I will be leaving Adobe soon . I will continue to write about digital publishing on a new personal blog, " Bill McCoy: Books 2.0" . From my introductory post there: ...my work at Adobe these last three years has been centered around a relatively prosaic objective: establishing open standards that ...
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• Second ODF Plugfest: Notes from the First Day

  
  Commercial Open Source Software — Authority: 414
  The second ODF Interoperability Workshop held in Orvieto gathered together more than 30 ODF experts, developers and stakeholders from public administrations to improve ODF interoperability . People from all over the world for two days collaborated to ensure not “merely”  standards’ compliance but true ...
  2 weeks ago

• Social media: re-introducing centralization through the backdoor

  
  P2P Foundation — Authority: 573
  Armin Medosch: “In media theory much has been made of the one-sided and centralised broadcast structure of television and radio. the topology of the broadcast system, centralised, one-to-many, one-way, has been compared unfavourable to the net, which is a many-to-many structure, but also one-to-many and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wi-Fi wants its piece of the Smart Grid

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  The Wi-Fi Alliance has created a task force to work on setting standards so that Wi-Fi can play a large role in future development of the cleaner, more efficient Smart Grid. Today, this new group released a white paper exploring all of the areas where Wi-Fi could aid in communication between the new electric meters, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wi-Fi wants its its piece of the Smart Grid

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  The Wi-Fi Alliance has created a task force to work on setting standards so that Wi-Fi can play a large role in future development of the cleaner, more efficient Smart Grid. Today, this new group released a white paper exploring all of the areas where Wi-Fi could aid in communication between the new electric meters, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is free software really free? Open e-learning development

  
  E-Learning Curve Blog — Authority: 461
  In the next few articles I will be looking at a group of applications that are neither open source proper nor commercially available programs. Is free software really free? Open e-learning development is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog
  2 weeks ago

• Leaving Adobe

  
  Bill McCoy — Authority: 476
  I will be leaving Adobe in the near future to pursue other opportunities "to be determined". Its been a heck of a ride these last several years! Im particularly proud that epub is now firmly established as the open standard eBook format, with a boost from Adobes leadership in IDPF as well as from the solution set ...
  2 weeks ago

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