General
Most data on the web comes as a river. Blog posts, photos, Facebook updates, tweets, news stories, videos, cloud files - all lists with the newest at the top. It's the design pattern of the Internet. Within this design pattern, there are four main places where innovation can occur:
Politics
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act just passed in the House, during a vote that was moved up a day and staged during the NFL draft. It vastly expands the already onerous act into one that allows significant domestic surveillance. As TechDirt notes: Basically it says the 4th Amendment
Data control
At the end of last year, I was asked to contribute my wishlist for Linux on the desktop for an issue of Linux Format magazine. Here's what I submitted: activity stream Then, I want to be able to program against the activity stream, and the activity streams I
Web
For the past few years, my friend Helen Steer has been working with the Geography Collective on Mission: Explore, a new way to promote exploration and curiosity: Mission:Explore is a game, but not as you know it. There are two aims to the game. One is to collect points
Politics
If there was any doubt that the Internet is radically changing democracy, check this out: Spain's new political party, the Partido de Internet, is a policy-agnostic political party that makes its decisions based on the will of a community based on Agora, a virtual parliament platform. [...] Agora
General
A few weeks ago, my friends Mark and Sana got married in Oxford Town Hall. My sister Hannah and I were invited, but sadly couldn't attend, on the grounds that we were over 5,000 miles and an ocean away. They're both wonderful people, and I&
latakoo
Video technology is still underdeveloped on the web. Over at latakoo, we've just started a technology blog to talk about what we're doing: in nine minutes You can read the first post here.
Web
Confession: I want to like Google+. I think competition is a great thing, and Google is in a unique position to do something fascinating with social platforms. It's also significant that a lot of really brilliant people from the decentralized web community - Chris Messina, Will Norris and Stephen
Data control
Today, Google released this video of Google Glass, an augmented reality project: Beautiful, right? It's a virtual assistant that sticks with you wherever you go. Exciting features debuted in the video include: * Automatic geo-tracking of both you and your friends. * Seamless photo-taking and live video broadcasting
latakoo
We're a part of the Knight News Challenge: Speed up, simplify, economical sending and sharing of large video files from anywhere to aid journalists and others. 2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? Slow or expensive methods of video delivery exist,
Elgg
Johannes Ernst just put me to shame by writing this blog post while sitting next to me at Elgg Camp San Francisco: [...] But there’s a stronger undertone from speaker after speaker talking about their projects. It’s about how the community wants and needs to own and control their
latakoo
It's been an amazing week, both for me and for latakoo. I've only just flopped back into my apartment in Berkeley, but here are some links: On the official Box blog, Box and latakoo make video uploads faster than ever: What does scale is anything that