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Unicorns Happen: Apple Tablet, Zune Phone
The internet has a complex. Sometimes we want things to exist so bad that we, the public, simply hang on to any shred of potential ...
The Open Source Embargo
Or “Separate but Equal hits the Open Source Community”.
I wrote a blog post a while back about location based profiling on the web. Many websites ...
The Iranian Cyber War on Twitter
Twitter is down again but this time it may be the result of an explicit attack similar to the one that took down Facebook and ...
Shuttleworth Steps Down as CEO to Design
You know you’re successful when you start climbing the corporate ladder in reverse. Mark Shuttleworth, the South African, space faring, billionaire CEO of Canonical (the ...
Stephane Boyera on the Evolution of the Mobile Web
Stephane Boyera of the World Wide Web Foundation discusses the next 20 years of the internet and how the mobile web is poised to dramatically ...
Population of the Dead
How many people have ever lived? While doing research about populations for my last piece, I began to wonder just how many people had ever ...
Bill Gates on the Dead Aid Meme
Bill Gates responds to the idea that ‘aid is bad’ in this interview with Newsweek. Although, he doesn’t reference Dambisa Moyo or or her book ...
Recap of AfricaGIS: A Geospatial Technology Conference
On Monday, October 26, 2009, 27 members of Google’s staff and around 200 people from around the world and Africa (I’ve heard conflicting reports of ...
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Should the White House Contribute to the Open Source Community?
The White House is going open source. Over the weekend, the White House announced that whitehouse.gov now runs on Drupal. Until now, the Obama administration ...
The Apple Tablet’s Role in Emerging Markets