Tag: Open source
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Apple Rotting?
Image via Wikipedia VLC is open and free. So that’s why Apple hates it? In the US, most of us have Flash or VLC alternatives that are not open-source installed on our machines. This isn’t true world-wide. The advantages of VLC are magnified in areas where connections are slow or sporadic, where people don’t have […]
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Sunlight Labs: Blog – Adobe is Bad for Open Government
The fact is, sticking to open, standards based technologies like HTML, XML, JSON and others are far more important and useful in getting your information out to the public than the proprietary formats of Adobe. Here’s a hint– if the data format has an ® by its name, it probably isn’t great for transparency or […]
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Why Kindle will be Obsolete
Open allows experimentation. Open encourages competition. Open wins. Amazon needs to get with the program. Or, like AOL and MSN, Amazon will wind up another online pioneer who ends up a belated guest at the party it planned to host. via Why Kindle Should Be An Open Book – Forbes.com. A great article, and he’s […]
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Harnessing Technology for Civic Projects
The Four Pillars of an Open Civic System – O’Reilly Radar. And of course you can blend these data flows and come up with hybrids all you like. DIYcity’s SickCity, for example, is basically a C2C tool in its present, basic 1.0 incarnation – it detects instances of residents in your city saying they’re sick, […]
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Wisdom of crowds brought to web by Wikis–next big thing
This is what I have been telling students and others for sometime. Our century» Mitch Kapor: Why Wikipedia is the next big thing | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: “The community should own the knowledgebase, Mitch said. It’s a kind of commons, and not owned by a business organization monetizing the sites. The business organization […]
Barbara K Iverson 