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Google's been flirting with government-level customers for some time now, but the Internet giant made a big statement with yesterday's release of Google Apps for Government.
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Fans of the OpenPublish (news, site) packaged Drupal (news, site) distribution aimed at publishers will be pleased to know that creator Phase 2 Technology has some interesting updates coming, and big plans to complete before the next Drupalcon. Versions Phase 2 just released
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This week the mobile enterprise makes it easier for airlines to check you in. While the government says there's an app for that. Airlines Expand Mobile Workforce, Shorten Lines Talk about your ultimate mobile workforce : American Airlines and Delta Air Lines have announced that they plan to expand their
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Spigit is not the only vendor that provides solutions for citizen participation, we saw that via the comments following that article. Granicus is also another vendor you can add to the mix. Here's their story, uh, platform. Granicus Open Platform I actually hadn't heard of Granicus before the Spigit's CitizenSpigit
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When the White House issued guidance that said Federal agencies should take advantage of social computing software to help them promote an open government, Spigit (news, site), a provider of innovation management solftware, decided to step up and help out. Crowdsourcing for Citizens Spigit is making use of the
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Every one knows how much the U.S. government likes SharePoint. Now MetaVis (news, site ), a provider of SharePoint migration managment tools, is in the position to offer their services.
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Can Google hear you think? Independent computer security researcher Moxie Marlinspike seems to believe so. He used his stage time at this year's SOURCE conference in Boston to raise awareness around Big G's data harvesting practices, admonishing the search engine's ability to mine way more information than statistics say you're
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Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. Fortunately, when I write a story, I'm a bit anal about going to read the source materials. So when I came across a Slashdot post by Sara Chan claiming that "scientists at universities, which are all public in the UK, can now
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If your company or project is heavily involved in the open scene (open source, open data, open government, etc) then one conference you may want to consider for 2010 is the Open World Forum (news, site ).
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If there was still any doubt that social media’s the way of the future, recent moves by the U.S. Military might be enough to squash it. The Department of Defense recently went social by lifting the three-year-long ban on sites like Facebook and Twitter.
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It's Friday and I am in a Microsoft (news, site ) state of mind.
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Think you know what websites have the best usability? A survey by the UK-based research firm Webcredible found that the top performing industry sectors were news and media websites, followed by travel and utility websites. The sites voted most unfavorably belonged to local authority and government sector websites.
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Ladies and gentleman, Anil Dash has officially left the building. As the very first employee at blogging and social media software maker, Six Apart (news, site ) and a seasoned blogger himself (10 years!), Dash has been intrinsic to the company as well as the online writing discussion
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In the never-ending argument over which country is Number 1, the UK has just surpassed the US in one particular area: that of open data. UK Public Data Treasure Trove With Data.gov.uk, the UK now has 2,879 public data sets available through the web for developers to use.
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