The subjects for this week’s digest are: Google’s Internet stats and Google liberating data, Microsoft’s vision on the next-gen newspaper and digital contact lenses that monitor your health.
- Linked Government Data « Decentralyze
identify ways for governments and computer science researchers to continue working together to advance the state-of-the-art in data integration and build useful, deployable proof-of-concept demos that use actual government information and demonstrate real benefit from linked data integration. - Digital Contacts Will Keep an Eye on Your Vital Signs | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Forget about 20/20. “Perfect” vision could be redefined by gadgets that give you the eyes of a cyborg. The tech industry calls the digital enrichment of the physical world “augmented reality.” Such technology is already appearing in smart phones and toys, and enthusiasts dream of a pair of glasses we could don to enhance our everyday perception. But why stop there? Scientists, eye surgeons, professors and students at the University of Washington have been developing a contact lens containing one built-in LED, powered wirelessly with radio frequency waves. - PrimeLife – Privacy and Identity Management in Europe for Life
Individuals in the Information Society want to protect their autonomy and retain control over personal information, irrespective of their activities. Information technologies hardly consider those requirements, thereby putting the privacy of the citizen at risk. Today, the increasingly collaborative character of the Internet enables anyone to compose service and contribute and distribute information. Individuals will contribute throughout their life leaving a life long trail of personal data. - Google – Internet Stats
This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time. - Facebook: "We're cash-flow positive"
"We’re also succeeding at building Facebook in a sustainable way. Earlier this year, we said we expected to be cash flow positive sometime in 2010, and I’m pleased to share that we achieved this milestone last quarter. This is important to us because it sets Facebook up to be a strong independent service for the long term." - Semantic Video at Google
Google may never call itself a semantic web company, but yesterday it plunged a bit deeper into the space. The search engine leader announced in a blog posting that it is announcing support for Facebook Share and Yahoo! SearchMonkey RDFa. - Microsoft’s vision for a “next-gen newspaper” looks like TweetDeck
The Newspaper Association of America cast a wide net this summer in seeking proposals for generating online revenue. Their request went out to many of the firms we’ve been covering closely but also several tech companies that aren’t exactly in the thick of the news industry, including Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle. - Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats
As our digital and physical lives blur further, the internet has become the information hub where people spend a majority of their time learning, playing and communicating with others globally. Sometimes it is easy to lose sight of just how staggering the numbers are of people collaborating, researching, and interacting on the web. - Government 2.0: A case study from Australia
I found this presentation by Matthew Hodgson a great overview of the ways "government 2.0" tactics are succeeding at home and abroad. Check out some of his screenshot examples online: FutureMelbourne (a wiki for citizens to design a better Melbourne), Powerhouse Museum (a Sydney museum that allows users improve its online collections through tagging, ranking and sharing information), and Bang the Table (a service facilitating public policy discussion). - Tweeting is more than just self-expression
From CNN to Ashton Kutcher, everyone is tweeting. In ads, many companies now display the logo of an animated blue bird holding a sign that says "follow me." Twitter, a micro-communication service that gives users an opportunity to express their thoughts in 140-character "tweets," is a hit in the social media world. Companies are also benefiting from Twitter, where 20 percent of the tweets contain requests for product information or responses to the requests, according to Jim Jansen, associate professor of information science and technology in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at Penn State.
Quick links
- Innovation should not be the race for the new-new thing
- 22 Awesome Adobe AIR Applications for Designers
- Seven jQuery Plugins That Let You Do Cool Stuff With Images
- Google apes revolutionaries with launch of Data Liberation Front
- Top 10 Underhyped Webapps, 2009 Edition [Lifehacker Top 10]
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Rick Mans is Information Architect and a social media evangelist within Capgemini. You can follow and connect with him via Twitter or Delicious
