I Vizify Myself So after hearing about the Portland based start-up company Vizify, I set out to do some investigating in order to inform our ELGL readers about this new social media option and digital resume platform. First, a little explanation about Vizify. Vizify stands for Visualizing, Realizing, and Clarifying. The goal of the organizationRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda The future is not what you think it is. In some ways, it’s like the past. “E-Mail: Not Dead, Evolving“ In others, it’s a break from the past. @CJoh, in Q&A: “RFPEZ ≠ FOB 2.0, SAM, FedBizOpps” Philadelphia’s Chief Data Officer is trying to “change the game on civic tech” Related: HowTo.gov asks:Read… Read more »
If you were about to build a house, would you start by putting out an RFP asking for bids on a three-bedroom house? Of course not. The bids would be all over the map. You’d have no idea what the house would look like once it’s built; and the chances of being happy with theRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley Every year Mary Meeker does the tech and business community a great service by researching, analyzing and reporting on the State of the Internet. Her latest presentation is embedded below in slideshare format and is also available at this link. KPCB Internet Trends 2013 from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers This isRead… Read more »
On the back of the Guardian article today, I thought iId share this slightly longer explanation and summary around Create / Innovate. June is a month for breaking down barriers – First and foremost Create and Innovate is about thinking differently it will be about experimentation, discovery, play, learning and reflection. One of the reasonsRead… Read more »
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Home – Lincoln Matrix Richard Stallman: My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs “My favorite programming language:” Google’s Go has some coders raving | Ars Technica David Wilcox » Ten pillars of wisdom: a manifesto for a better later life Passing the Public InterestRead… Read more »
The city of Atlanta has embraced technology and the data created from creative apps developed by citizens in a big way, as reported in an article at Creative Loafing Atlanta. Some examples of interesting things happening in Atlanta: Tires App– Tires dumped on the side of the road or in vacant lots is a neighborhhodRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top mobile news and stories of the day. Apple announces new $229 16GB iPod touch: 4-inch Retina display, no rear-facing camera – Apple has announced their latest iPod Touch offering. The iPod touch was a huge seller at first, because it allowed people to get into iOS in aRead… Read more »
In the run-up to GovHack this weekend, Australian governments have been hard at work preparing new or updated open data sites, many using CKAN as their base technology. This includes the new Australian Government beta data.gov.au site, the new South Australian government’s data.sa.gov.au and the NSW government’s new data.nsw.gov.au/data/. We also have Queensland’s data.qld.gov.au, Victoria’sRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff Just saw a post at Semantic Web that captured the MarkLogic vision from their MarkLogic World conference. Check it out At SemanticWeb here. Here is a short excerpt: Last month at its MarkLogic World 2013 conference, the enterprise NoSQL database platform provider talked semantics as it related to its MarkLogic Server technologyRead… Read more »