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DNS is the New Browser War
Stay N' Alive —
Authority: 521
Today Google decided to go head-to-head with a smack to OpenDNS, announcing their own “Public” DNS which users could integrate to bypass their own DNS provider, get faster speeds, and “improve the browsing experience for all users.” The announcement comes head-to-head with their announcement a couple ...1 week ago -
A response from my MEP about EIF2
The Open Sourcerer —
Authority: 107
A couple of weeks ago I wrote the following to my MEPs using the excellent www.writetothem.com Tuesday 3 November 2009 Dear Marta Andreasen, Nigel Farage, Catherine Bearder, Sharon Bowles, Peter Skinner, Caroline Lucas and Nirj Deva, I am very concerned about the progress of the European Interoperability ...1 week ago -
It’s Time to Free the Twitter Client
Stay N' Alive —
Authority: 521
Dave Winer wants a programmable Twitter client. I think it’s a great idea. It’s something the browser has had for quite awhile now via extensions, frameworks, and plugins. Up until this point Twitter clients have been closed systems that can’t really be extended in any way. Loic Lemeur thinks he has the ...1 week ago -
P2P and the Social Cloud
P2P Foundation —
Authority: 528
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 ...1 week ago -
Openness as the Foundation for Global Change
open... —
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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 ...1 week ago -
Is Wikipedia Dying or Just Maturing?
Technology Liberation Front —
Authority: 573
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 ...2 weeks ago -
IGF Day 4 and last, Privacy – Incident with China – Human network – more Open Standards – Jordan FOSS – and Final statement
Guysoft's Weblog —
Authority: 109
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 ...2 weeks ago -
Inevitability of e-book success?
Open IT Strategies —
Authority: 122
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 ...2 weeks ago -
Must-See Video: Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Keynote on The War For The Web
Speaking of Standards —
Authority: 99
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 ...2 weeks ago -
Chrome OS – because you have more than one computer
Andrej Koelewijn —
Authority: 99
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 ...3 weeks ago -
Politicians, lobbyists and scapegoats: When choosing not to choose should make you vote the next time
Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards —
Authority: 400
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, ...3 weeks ago -
GooHooSoft bear-hugs ‘Apache for web specs’
ShareConnector —
Authority: 158
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 ...3 weeks ago -
OSOR News: ODF Plugfest article
Commercial Open Source Software —
Authority: 118
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 ...3 weeks ago -
Defining openness: open source, open data, open APIs, open communities, and more
Infotropism —
Authority: 104
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 ...3 weeks ago -
The Web in Danger
Anil Dash —
Authority: 573
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 ...3 weeks ago -
Chile: Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Data
Between the Poles —
Authority: 425
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 ...3 weeks ago -
New blog: Books 2.0
Adobe Blogs —
Authority: 643
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 ...3 weeks ago -
Second ODF Plugfest: Notes from the First Day
Commercial Open Source Software —
Authority: 118
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 ...3 weeks ago -
Social media: re-introducing centralization through the backdoor
P2P Foundation —
Authority: 528
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 ...4 weeks ago -
Wi-Fi wants its piece of the Smart Grid
Gadget Reviews —
Authority: 157
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, ...4 weeks ago
