Daily chart: internet economies. Britain’s internet economy is now bigger than its construction and education sectors. But Europe as a whole punches below its weight, mainly because its internet economy is held back by a lack of a single digital market.
And it looks like Internet is not going to add much to India’s economy as per the forecast.
(via theeconomist)
“However truly smart - and real - cities are driven bottom up by citizens and organizations as innovators rather than by top down visions and plans that ignore the innovative potential of grassroots efforts, while governments should play the role of mediator bringing companies, research organizations and creative people to work in concert (Ratti, Townsend). The connection between smart environments and bottom-up innovation practices in the framework of cities and urban agglomerations is the main focus of the Special Issue. In particular we explore how collaboration platforms, embedded systems, open data, and semantic web technologies sustain a new round of innovation driven by the creativity of the population and the collective intelligence of collaboration. The concept of Living Labs takes its point of departure in the consideration of people as innovators, and envisions environments of open and user driven innovation. As infrastructures and social networks become more advanced and widespread, the role of the Internet as an enabler of city services has become more important for urban development. Cities are increasingly assuming a critical role as drivers of innovation in areas such as health, inclusion, environment and business, a trend that will surely continue as more people and devices will become part of the Future Internet even than are connected today. Cities are increasingly becoming a living lab itself, a playground of innovation and transformation.” — Call for Papers: Smart Applications for Smart Cities: New Approaches to Innovation | Open Living Labs (via rawjeev)
(via rawjeev)
UN treaty a 'disaster' for the internet - Schmidt -
“That would be a disaster… To some, the openness and interoperability is one of the greatest achievements of mankind in our lifetime. Do not give that up easily. You will regret it. You will hate it, because all of a sudden all that freedom, all that flexibility, you’ll find it shipped away for one good reason after another,” Schmidt said.
“I cannot be more emphatic. Be very, very careful about moves which seem logical, but have the effect of balkanising the internet,” he added, urging everyone to strongly resist the moves.
What Happened to NoSQL for the Enterprise? -
…So what it comes down to is that for decades we’ve had one standard way to store and query important data, and today there are new choices. As with any choice, there are tradeoffs, and for some applications NoSQL databases, including Semantic Web databases, can enable organizations to get more done in less time and with less hardware than relational databases. The trick is to know when and how to deploy these new tools.
“I’m confident to say that if you starting a new strategic enterprise application you should no longer be assuming that your persistence should be relational. The relational option might be the right one - but you should seriously look at other alternatives.”
-Martin Fowler.
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“Unlike Web sites, Web apps, encourage people to interact, engage, and accomplish something, rather than passively view content.” — Neil Mcallister’s Article
A New Approach to GNOME Application Design -
“One of the things that the GNOME design crew have been focusing on recently is creating a new approach to application design for GNOME 3. We want GNOME applications to be thoroughly modern, and we want them to be attractive and a delight to use. That means that we have to do application design differently to how we’ve done it in the past.”
Move to mobile will bring big changes for Linux -
…More and more, it’s no longer about “I run Fedora” or “openSUSE rocks”… now the conversations have shifted to things like how much better Cinnamon is than Unity, or how Trinity kicks mainline KDE’s butt.
An interesting look at UI going forward
Kingsley Idehen - Google - What Facebook Can Teach Us about Bootstrapping Linked Data… -
(Source: dagoneye)
Why we love the things we build?
The Covenant - A New Approach to Open Source Cooperation -
With a huge portions of the Internet & a huge number of devices relying on opensource software (Operating Systems, Web Servers, Mail Servers, Browsers) and even commercial closed source projects relying on many opensource software (libraries, source code management systems, build systems etc. with liberal licenses), no one can underestimate the importance of opensource software.
However opensource is still an evolving model with many questions & a ground of many experiments. This one sounds like an interesting experiment in licensing & copyrights.
A beer can to Amplify your Wifi signal! -
I know beer works for me, I got to see if the can works for my Wifi. I cant wait to have a beer and try the trick at home.