“Geeking Out with Gavin” is a weekly series highlighting ways to improve your productivity on the web. In my day-to-day work and use of the computer, I find that the vast majority of my time is spent in the browser. Sure, I’ll delve into MS Office occasionally, do some playlist modification with my music program,Read… Read more »
Every Friday, we take a quick look back at the week and highlight five members or moments that were especially awesome. Here’s who and what rocked it out this week. Also we want to know how or what you think killed it this week on the site so help us out with your comments below.Read… Read more »
On paper, intranets make sense: a private computer network that uses Internet Protocol to securely share any part of an organization’s information or network operating system within that organization (from Wikipedia). However, despite using the same protocols and user interface (a web browser) they are incredibly different. Looking at the disparity between the Internet andRead… Read more »
Looxcie is a great device that lets you film exactly what you see. I’ve been testing one out for the last several weeks and have enjoyed learning about it and thinking about its potential uses in the enterprise. It has a lightweight, over the ear form factor that frees your hands and eyes up whileRead… Read more »
Professor Jeffrey Ullman will sepak on Map-Reduce and its Children, 21st February 2011 in Canberra.Professor Jeffrey UllmanMap-Reduce and Its ChildrenAbstractSince its publication by Google researchers in 2004, Map-reduce has proven to be a significantadvance in programming methodology that offers resilient, easy-to-code parallel computation ona modern computing cluster or “cloud.” It has led to Original post
Many of us in the #gov20 space are trying to sort through the conundrum of #crisisdata, the result of seemingly endless Facebook posts, tweets, videos, photos and more. There’s great work going on at Crisis Commons and they’ve literally helped people and save lives. For those of us in emergency operations centers and joint informationRead… Read more »
Stephen Schultze of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy has posted PACER, RECAP, and the Movement to Free American Case Law, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Mr. Schultze describes the origins of RECAP, an innovative project to publicly disseminate U.S. federal courtRead… Read more »
Hey GovLoopers! We’ve heard several of you ask for it before and now it’s finally here: the “Like” button. It’s super simple to use. You find the 2 (Yes, I said 2!) “Like” buttons at the bottom of every post. The first “Like” button is for on GovLoop. The Second is the normal Facebook “Like”Read… Read more »
The federal government’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has launched a new Web site and social media tools. Original post
Earlier today, in an attempt to pump up the crowd at a GovDelivery event, Steve Ressler tossed a GovLoop “Gov Rock Star T-shirt” out into the crowd. It’s soared sky high….. …..and then it landed on a water pitcher spilling water everywhere! It was oh so close to being awesome. Find more videos like thisRead… Read more »