TriMet (OR) quietly unveiled the public beta for its new open-source multimodal trip planner this week, with the official launch scheduled for October 15. Developed in partnership with OpenPlans, the application will let users plan trips that combine transit, walking, and biking. For trips with a bicycle component, travelers can ask for the fastest itineraryRead… Read more »
The Texas Tribune Out of the Smoke-Filled Room and Onto the Internet By REEVE HAMILTON Published: October 6, 2011 The concept of crowdsourcing — soliciting information from a wide range of people responding to an open call over the Internet — is drawing some interest at the Capitol and could play a significant role inRead… Read more »
The newest highly scalable social media capability on the grid is WayIn. WayIn leverages the ubiquitous Internet, the increasingly pervasive smart phone and tablet platforms, globally deployed desktop devices to connect with people. WayIn builds upon the lessons learned from Sun Microsystem’s greatest cloud computing architects and business minds. And it fills a need manyRead… Read more »
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The Office of Consular Systems and Technology (CST) leads the State Department‘s IT efforts. This is an amazing organization that has been delivering high quality, high throughput systems and solutions for years. This group really is our first line of defense against threat actors so we should all be thankful the team here performs atRead… Read more »
The whole world is eulogizing Steve Jobs today, on Twitter, in the media, in cafes, everywhere. On the alumni list for ITP, the grad program I went to, someone wrote in about an encounter he had with Jobs: I asked him, “if you could talk to yourself from 20 years ago, what would you talkRead… Read more »
First, let’s be clear, I’m not a coder. Not even close. I’m a some-time racquetball player, part-time marketer, and full-time activist. The later two being the reason why I joined up with Code for America. Ever since I realized that America, land of liberty, was an entirely preconceived notion — I’ve found myself pondering theRead… Read more »
It feels a little like Apple has just been cored. This morning, I don’t think I was alone in shedding a tear. The difference between a geek, a nerd, and everyone else, was probably actually how you felt this morning. Because you see, for the nerds among us, he was more than a genius, anRead… Read more »
Governor Dannel P. Malloy and business leaders from throughout Connecticut have partnered to launch Startup Connecticut, a new initiative to support entrepreneurship throughout the state. Startup Connecticut is the latest in a national effort coordinated by the Startup America Partnership to help small businesses create jobs. Connecticut is the third state to adopt a StartupRead… Read more »
Late last month, a new online community launched in Germany for people and organizations that “want to advance citizen participation in political decision making and shape the future of public participation” (translation mine). From the website (in German): Die Partizipation der Bürgerinnen und Bürger an gesellschaftlichen und politischen Entscheidungsprozessen ist ein elementarer Grundpfeiler der Demokratie:Read… Read more »