Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

DEMOCRATIZING INNOVATION- by Eric Von Hippel

The world’s first comprehensive laws to regulate artif... have been agreed in a landmark deal after a marathon 37-... between the European Parliament and EU member states.

The lesson for management teams at other unicorns is cle... Forget worrying about whether you're going to be around ... refocus on making products that people want that will ma...

A company that controls thousands of New York City’s p... advertising displays has planted tiny radio transmitters... “beacons” — devices that can be used to track peop... — in hundreds of pay phone booths in Manhattan, BuzzFe...
And it’s

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

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

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

Seine-Port, in the Seine-et-Marne area south of Paris, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, last weekend voted yes in a referendum to restrict smartphone use in public,

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

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

Samasource empowers over 850 marginalized people, from r... women in rural Pakistan, to receive life-changing work o... the Internet. In parallel, we enable socially responsibl... businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs in the US to c... economic de

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

The Internet Bus Project is an attempt to educate people... Internet is, and how it may be beneficial to their lives... Internet experience to them through a customised Interne... which will travel to several towns and cities across India.

We covered the Newstweek, a wall-wart sized box that inj... stories over public WiFi connections last February, but ... great walk through and it seems our doubts about this pr...
The Newstweek uses ARP spoofing to change the text displ ...
Aside from

Scotland's most remote communities could soon gain acces... broadband, according to researchers working on an intern... program.
The Tegola Project, run jointly by the University of Edi ...
Professor Peter Buneman of the School of Informatics at ...

The process of adding RDFa to Best Buy's webpages began ... the company began to look for ways to get more visibilit...
To solve this dilemma, Best Buy gave each store its own ...
Best Buy employees entered information into the blogs ev ...
Best Buy is

The question of what happens to the surplus is really ir... is one specific project. The idea is interesting. If thi... different software projects, I think we might find more ... the part of developers to implement certain large pieces...
Alternative

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

Earlier today we wrote about the AP's plans to DRM the n... what a backwards plan it was. The story is getting lots ... with many pointing to a NY Times report, where the AP's ...
"If someone can build multibillion-dollar businesses ...
First of al

Members of a new generation of digitally savvy humanists... to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or... “ism” and start exploring how technology is changing... of the liberal arts. This latest frontier is about metho... powerful te

A core tenet of Buyosphere is a C2B (that’s consumer-t... communication flow. In other words, rather than business... gathering data on your behavior and pushing advertising ...
“At Buyosphere, you gather what you buy and own, a ...
As the Do N

MUMBAI, India - It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th ... unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet... which it hopes to bring into production by 2011.
If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux ope ...

A top German court has ruled that people can sue their I... for damages if connection is lost. The court has ruled t... Internet represents a basic need in modern society.

Shoplifting is at its highest recorded levels, £4.88 bi... according to the Centre for Retail Research. Internet Ey... designed to combat this rise by detecting these crimes a...
Internet Eyes is an online instant event notification sy ...

Golden has been designed from the start to encourage a deep, extensive view on knowledge.

Is tech saturation good or bad for the modern teenager?
Arguments can be made either way, but there’s no debat ...
People aged 18-34 have an average of 319 online connecti ...
Pew also recently reported that 63% of teenagers text me ...
... to help or

Jaron Lanier's book, You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto, ... feathers in the US. The book takes a swipe at Web 2.0, a... destroying individuality, destroying creativity and dest... middle-class professions. On the cover of the book are t...
"It's early

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

The Associated Press is becoming the enemy of the Intern... fighting the link and the link is the basis of the Inter... Perez-Pena's New York Times story today:
Tom Curley, The A.P.'s president and chief executive ...
Them's fightin' words: quoting