Customize this page
|
5
Votes
vote
Four short links: 11 November 2009ParticipateDB -- database of online tools for public participation. Closed alpha now, with 32 tools and 15 projects in the database. (via Sara Winge) DataTO -- like data.gov, but it's where users request data sets. (In this case, from the Toronto municipal government) Go -- new language fro... |
-
O'Reilly Radar -
|
2
Votes
vote
Converting to Electronic Health Records: fits and startsThe people of he United States are finally pulling together around the goals of reducing health care costs (by far the highest per capita in the world) and improving outcomes (we have the worst health of any developed country). Everyone seems to recognize the critical importance of data a... |
|
2
Votes
vote
The Minds Behind Some of the Most Addictive Games AroundThe gaming industry tends to focus on the high end products, first person shooters that crank out a bazillion polygons a seconds and RPGs with spend more time developing the plot in cut scenes than in actual gameplay. But for every person playing Borderlands, there are scores playing casual game... |
|
2
Votes
vote
Unlikely Group Working Happily Together To Solve Patent ProblemPeople following the issue of open sourcing the U.S. Patent Database might have been surprised to read an announcement in the official business opportunities web site of the U.S. Government: Synopsis for Public Data Dissemination Sole Source Contract to Google, Inc. While the first reac... |
|
4
Votes
vote
Three Paradoxes of the Internet Age - Part ThreeThe myth of personal empowerment takes root amidst a massive loss of personal control. Social technologies are cloaked in a rhetoric of liberation (customers are in control, the internet fosters democracy, social technologies propagate truth etc.) that tend to obscure the fact that never befo... |
|
5
Votes
vote
Four short links: 6 November 2009Red Laser -- "impossibly accurate barcode scanning". Uses Google Product Search to identify products that you scan using the camera on the phone. I remember Rael and I talking to Jeff Bezos about this years ago, before camphones had the resolution to decode barcodes. The future is ... |
Details for O'Reilly Radar
373 on the rank from United States
1653 indexed news
Create tab
Block this feedKeegybot at O'Reilly Radar
Updated every 13 hours
Last KeegyBot visit 1 hour
Traffic from O'Reilly Radar
2 Users sent from Keegy
