Seeing the Future of Mapping in Crimespotting
radar.oreilly.com — This week Stamen Design released San Francisco Crimespotting. It's a crime map and notification system that allows for time and crime trend analysis. SF Crimespotting has launched just over two years after the release Oakland Crimespotting. (Submitted by webalert) More...
Waze: How to Make Your Own Maps in Realtime
radar.oreilly.com — Waze is using mobile phones as sensors to collect data. The Israeli-based start-up (though now with offices in SF) is relying on users to create its maps, to report realtime traffic and to teach it how to route from place A to place B. (Submitted by jaybol) More...
Scholarships available to coders who'll come to journalism
radar.oreilly.com — It's not news that journalism is in crisis. Solutions are scarce, and our democracy is at risk. Journalism needs great hackers. Not just nerds, but programmers who care - about the values of journalism and the power of a free press to hold government accountable. (Submitted by tomlonar) More...
2000 People Singing Daisy Bell Together via Mechanical Turk
radar.oreilly.com — Bicycle Built For Two Thousand splices together over two thousand audio samples to sing the public domain song Daisy Bell, the song sung by HAL at the end of 2001. Each turker was played a single syllable or note from the synth version and asked to replicate it. People from 71 countries were each paid 6 cents to record their voice. (Submitted by domfosnz) More...
Tim O'Reilly to Obama: Put change.gov under revision control
radar.oreilly.com — "The real holy grail, of course, would be to provide revision control on all government regulations, and eventually, on legislation. This would no doubt be fought tooth and nail by lobbyists who don't want their fingerprints on the final result, but that's precisely why it would be such a breakthrough." (Submitted by trammell) More...
Why I Support Barack Obama - Tim O'Reilly
radar.oreilly.com — We need a president who can harness the best and brightest our country has to offer, a president who is conversant with, and comfortable with, the power of technology to assist in solving problems, a president who is good at listening, studying, and devising solutions based on the best insight available, rather than on narrow ideology. (Submitted by isiah1) More...
Recession Will be Very Kind to Open Source
radar.oreilly.com — this recession will be great for free and open source because of the shortage of cash. Last recession saw the mainstream legitimisation of open source operating systems (youngsters, take note: there was a time when it wasn't automatically okay for an IT department to use Linux) because it was clear and away the most cost-effective choice. (Submitted by rtaibah) More...
Facebook Growth: Share of College-Age Users is declining
radar.oreilly.com — With the U.S. now accounting for only about a third of all Facebook users, we are starting to see a gradual shift away from its original demographic of college-age users (18-25): 46% of all users are 18-25 years old, down from 51% in late May. The number of users in the 18-25 segment is growing, but at a slower pace than the other age groups. Among (Submitted by SirPopper) More...
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