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2012-02-08 10:53:53     Docracy - Learn More

http://www.docracy.com/application/learnmore

Docracy is a social repository of legal documents. Our m... useful legal documents freely available to the public. W... them easier to find, customize and sign. No more crappy ... paywall that you download hoping everything will be alright.
Instead: re

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2013-03-23 15:24:53     Jay Parkinson, The Doctor Is In (Well, Logged In) - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/...ctor-is-in-well-logged-in.html?...

Dr. Parkinson’s start-up isn’t a new app or social n... founder of Sherpaa, a Web site that operates like a virt... office, examining patients by e-mail and text message.
“We’re using the Internet to reinvent health care,†...
Have a mysterious

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2009-04-15 12:58:25     BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Egyptian town's 'zero unemployment'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7952795.stm

Egyptian town's 'zero unemployment'
Despite the ongoing global economic turmoil, one Egyptia ...
The people of Damietta attribute this to the quality of ...
Christian Fraser visited one of Damietta's many workshop ...

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2013-12-18 10:56:11     An Homage to Douglas Engelbart and a Critique of the State of Tech - NYTimes.com

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...e-of-the-state-of-tech/?...

Everyone here will of course say they are carrying on hi... twisted interpretation. I for one carry on his work by k... outside the file, as he did.

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2012-09-21 08:04:52     Facebook Is Badware (and Why Google Should Warn Its Users)

http://lifehacker.com/...nd-why-google-should-warn-its-users

Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden int... its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest ... evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace ... technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is that... gaslighting

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2010-10-31 09:43:01     Facebook buys drop.io file sharing service, shuts it down - Download Squad

http://i.downloadsquad.com/...sharing-service-shuts-it-down/

Facebook's latest acquisition is the cloud-based media s... drop.io, which offered a quick and versatile way to uplo... kinds of files, from pictures to videos to documents. Ac... post from drop.io, the service will be shutting down Dec...
According t

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2013-09-17 20:03:46     Fairphone | A seriously cool smartphone. Putting social values first.

http://www.fairphone.com/

Fairphone is a social enterprise. We started in 2010 as ... society, Action Aid and Schrijf-Schrijf, aimed at raisin... conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the s... minerals is fueling in the DR Congo. The campaign and re... complex sup

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2011-05-05 15:24:32     Flattr - Social micropayments

http://flattr.com/about

Flattr was founded to help people share money, not just ... Flattr, the only reasonable way to donate has been to us...
The team that makes it happen »
donations if it wasn't for a really important cause. Sen ...
Flattr solves this issue. When you're r

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2012-01-11 10:46:35     Report: Foxconn Employees Forced to Sign 'No Suicide' Pledge | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384763,00.asp

Foxconn, a Chinese company that assembles Apple products... employees to sign a pledge promising that they won't com... according to the Daily Mail.

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2015-07-29 08:53:02     The Woman Finding Tech Jobs for the World's Poorest People | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/leila-janah-samagroup/

Fresh out of Harvard in 2005, Leila Janah landed a job a... consultant. One of her first assignments took her to Mum... traveled by auto-rickshaw to a sleek outsourcing center ...
“There aren’t any unions for online workers. They ha ...
Janah, 32,

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2011-09-12 12:34:54     About Full Fact | Full Fact

http://fullfact.org/about

Full Fact is an independent fact-checking organisation. ... to see the facts and context behind the claims made by t... British political debate and press those who make mislea...
We have already successfully pressed for inaccurate clai ...
Since its c

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2010-07-02 17:19:12     GoodRelations: The Web Ontology for E-Commerce

http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/

GoodRelations - The Web Ontology for E-Commerce
GoodRelations is a standardized vocabulary for product, ...

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2011-08-18 10:51:49     Valuing patents: Doing the maths | The Economist

https://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2.../valuing-patents

GOOGLE'S $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility ...
How might Google, a company famously fond of numbers and ...
"Motorola has a portfolio of 24,500 patents and pate ...
Using one of the industries recent patent auctions a ...
... lio and

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2009-11-22 10:53:32     COI - Structuring information on the Web for re-usability

http://coi.gov.uk/guidance.php?page=312

Government is committed to making its public information... available as possible. The best way to make structured i... available online is to publish it as Linked Data. Linked... information easier to cut and combine in ways that are r... citizens. T

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2011-11-02 08:31:24     Unthinkable Consulting - Unthinkable Blog - Green shoots of linked (open) data around news

http://www.unthinkableconsulting.com/...ata-around-news.html

Green shoots of linked (open) data around news
Friday, October 28, 2011 at 5:31PM
Based on Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyg ...
A couple of weeks ago Justin and I attended an event hos ...
... Matthew Shorter

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2013-02-11 23:38:59     Amazon unpacked - FT.com

http://www.ft.com/...5c-70bd-11e2-85d0-00144feab49a.html#...

he online giant is creating thousands of UK jobs, so why... less than happy?

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2011-11-05 09:28:32     BBC - Archive - HG Wells on the Future - HG Wells | Science and the Citizen

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/hg_wells/12409.shtml

HG Wells addresses the British Association Conference on... 'Science and the Citizen'. In typical provocative style,... medium of the newspaper as dead and the art of journalis... He claims that reports in newspapers are unreliable and ... people migh

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2012-04-04 21:52:30     How one word change lets Amazon pays less tax on its UK activities | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...lfilment-less-tax-uk-activities

How one word change lets Amazon pays less tax on its UK ...
The word 'fulfilment' introduced in 2006 marked new role ...

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2014-01-08 08:05:33     People, Not Data | Code for America

http://www.codeforamerica.org/2014/01/06/people-not-data/

I wish I could end this with a heroic call-to-action. ‮.. Do YOU want to fix our broken government?? Click here to... But I can’t. My fellowship year clarified more problem... Instead, I’ll offer a question: How can we build empat...
Well, first

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2016-06-12 19:49:06     The End of Reflection - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/...logy-phones-introspection.html?...

If the data is any indication, most of us use our phones... think: Participants estimated an average of 37 uses thro... (anything that turns on the screen, from hitting snooze ...
Continue reading the main story
If you are awake for 16 hours, turning o

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2009-07-02 09:08:42     BBC - The Knowledge Exchange Blog: The Power of 8

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/knowledgee.../the_power_of_8.html

If you see a particularly colourful newspaper lying on t... 'great' and the 'good' over the next few months it could... AHRC/BBC Knowledge Exchange Programme's new publication,...
8pic5resized.jpg
8 is a way of sharing all the lessons learned from our

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2011-08-23 18:38:16     BBC News - When algorithms control the world

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14306146

If you were expecting some kind warning when computers f... than us, then think again.
There will be no soothing HAL 9000-type voice informing ...
In reality, our electronic overlords are already taking ...
Their weapon of choice - the algorithm.

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2010-11-04 09:16:47     Dawn of a New Day « Ray Ozzie

http://ozzie.net/docs/dawn-of-a-new-day/

Imagining A “Post-PC” World

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2015-04-22 08:26:32     We Can't Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/

In a particularly spectacular display of corporate delus... Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery mak... Copyright Office that farmers don’t own their tractors... code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers ... implied lic

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2010-05-14 11:38:50     BBC News - Internet approaches addressing limit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10105978.stm

In less than 18 months there will be no more big blocks ... give out, estimates suggest.
Predictions name 9 September 2011 as the date on which t ...

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2011-05-25 17:56:34     Full text of Obama's speech to UK parliament - CNN.com

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLI.../obama.europe.speech/?...

In other words, we live in a global economy that is larg... making. And today, the competition for the best jobs and... countries that are free-thinking and forward-looking; co... most creative, innovative, entrepreneurial citizens.
That gives nations

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2011-09-09 18:22:41     A Plausible Thought About the Future: Safeguarding Privacy With Deception - Conor Friedersdorf - Technology - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201.../244826/

In the future, I wonder if it'll be common for people in... that to stop trying to scrub information from the Web, p... strategically add more content to the cloud as an elabor...

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2010-12-11 00:41:06     A simple change in the law could open up online access to the BBC's archives | Law | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...c-archive-online-access-law?...

In the melee of the last days of the Labour government, ...
Think of George Orwell and W H Auden, of Laurence Olivie ...
But the BBC can't make them available to us, as it would ...
All this was set out in the Digital Britain reports that ...
... ive cos

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2015-07-23 17:53:06    

ttps://medium.com/bad-w.../the-servitude-bubble-c9e998c437c6

In this essay, I want to offer a competing narrative to the popular but woefully misnamed “sharing economy” (which, of course, isn’t sharing, unless you tell your kids that buying and selling toys from other five year olds is “shari...

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2013-12-17 15:16:17     The Mission to De-Centralize the Internet : The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/...o-decentralize-the-internet.html

internet-290.jpg
In the nineteen-seventies, the Internet was a small, dec ...
This is not the Internet we know today. Nearly two decad ...

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