- How crowdsourcing helped Haiti's relief efforts - Lukas Biewald on CrowdFlower's emergency shift from microtasks to Kreyol translations
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Tech-minded volunteers quickly pitched in with a variety of communication and data services in the days following the Haiti earthquake. One company -- crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower -- repurposed its service as a t... - Four short links: 11 March 2010 - Digital Inclusion, Bookwriting Revealed, Chip Tips, and Mobile Marketshare
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January 2010 US Mobile Subscriber Market Share (ComScore) -- Android just overtook Palm, and is growing faster than the other smartphone platforms. And for a reality check, 28% of mobile customers used a browser on th... - Gov 2.0 invades Harvard: A report from #gov20ne - Politicians, advocates, techies and citizens discuss open government
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Last Saturday, several hundred folks gathered at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to spend the day discussing Open Government. I attended, and Laurel Ruma (O'Reilly's Gov 2.0 Evangelist) was one of the organiz... - #Ebook Deal of the Day: Designing Social Interfaces - Only $9.99! Use code DDDST
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Designing Social Interfaces for only $9.99. Use discount code DDDST to get your savings!... ... - What We Can Learn from Super Heros - A Video by Nilofer Merchant, author of "The New How"
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If you like this video, pick up a copy of Nilofer Merchant's book The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy. ... - We're about to scratch the real-world data itch - Mobile location tools will finally provide analytics from the physical realm
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Folks in the web world are accustomed to granular information, yet brick-and-mortar businesses are still largely in the dark on the data front. But what if business owners could gather hard data? What if they could use... - Four short links: 10 March 2010 - Publishing Business, Google Apps Marketplace, iPad Design, and Visual Communication
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Google Apps Enterprise Marketplace -- this is sweet. It looks like the play is to become the home page for authenticated apps rather than to make commissions from selling the apps themselves. This may be the Google bu... - Truly Open Data
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I'm kicking myself. I have spent a non-trivial number of hours talking to government departments and scientists about open data, talking up an "open source approach" to data, pushing hard to get them to release dataset... - #Ebook Deal of the Day: Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition - Only $9.99! Use code DDNUT
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Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition for only $9.99. Use discount code DDNUT to get your savings!... ... - Happening Tomorrow: Where 2.0 webcast on mapping, mobile, and local trends - A Free Live Event at 10am PT
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In this webcast, moderated by Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Media, you'll hear from the following: Diann Eisnor of Waze will discuss the creation of realtime mapping data sets. Joe Stump of SimpleGeo will discuss tying m...
