Image courtesy of AP.

On the Economy

The Dow was shaken up this week with a 1000 drop in points.  Was it Greece, No, a trading mistake, No…

The Greek debt crisis. The fall of the euro. The collapse of the European order. Debt contagion hits the market. Never mind that, important as the Greek crisis is, nothing whatsoever changed in the Greek debt situation at 2:15 p.m. It was the explanation closest at hand, and it’s the job of the press to explain what was quickly turning into the fastest crash in U.S. market history.

Let’s blame it on technology, no? Or was it the trader who entered a “b” for billion instead of an “m” for million in a trade possibly involving Procter & Gamble a component in the Dow.

….

20 Things You Will Need To Survive When The Economy Collapses And The Next Great Depression Begins
Today, millions of Americans say that they believe that the United States is on the verge of a major economic collapse and will soon be entering another Great Depression.

Economy Gains Impetus as U.S. Adds 290,000 Jobs
Despite growing unease in the financial markets, the American economy is gathering steam, adding an unexpectedly large number of jobs last month.

The Trillion-Dollar Question
What happened Thursday, May 5, to cause the stock market’s precipitous fall is truly the trillion-dollar question that no one can seem to answer.

How a market crashes
How can the market go, on a random Thursday afternoon, completely insane? The story which is emerging centers on old, boring Procter & Gamble, as can be seen in the PG chart from this afternoon.

On Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook:

@CnnMoney, @davidkirkpatric (has written a book, “The Facebook Effect) and @Techcrunch have some very interesting articles related.  Find them HERE.

A short excerpt from the book below:

“You just saw my apartment,” Zuckerberg replied. “I don’t really need any money. And anyway, I don’t think I’m ever going to have an idea this good again.” Viacom (VIA) would try money nonetheless, with a cash offer of $800 million and provisions that could make it worth as much as $1.5 billion. But like many other suitors, the Viacom executives discovered they were dealing with a formidable character. If his invention’s early appeal was at a freshman level, exploiting the desire of college students to check each other out, his professed ambition was much higher: to change the world.

Confusing *a* public with *the* public
Private v. public is not a binary decision; there is a vast middle inbetween that is about the control of our own publics. Allow me to explain….

Facebook vs. Zynga: The Turf War
Zynga and Facebook have had an extremely symbiotic and mutually lucrative relationship to date, but after the social network tried to use its weight to hold its leading social gaming application maker captive, Zynga looks to be mad as hell.

Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative
Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed.

Facebook is Dying – Social is Not
There is one question that I hear all the time. Is Facebook going to last, or is it just a fad? My answer is always the same

What Happens When You Deactivate Your Facebook Account
Facebook is a big part of millions and millions of peoples’ lives, but what happens when you pull the plug?

On Mobility and Mobile Apps

See what the @RWW has to say on the newest trends in the mobile market.

RWW Mobile Summit Keynote: Top Mobile Trends of 2010
During his keynote presentation at the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit today, our founder and editor Richard MacManus examined the trends and issues around mobile that we have been tracking here on RWW.

Some very cool new Mobile Apps (except Fiverr).  Aside Note:  Found these on the Webby Awards 2010 Page.

Sharing location with friends and family on Facebook® has just become easier — and more engaging — thanks to Glympse™ http://www.glympse.com

The place for people to share things they're willing to do for $5, web app. http://www.fiverr.com

Create your profile and set up your phone. We update your location in real-time and send alerts to your phone when singles are near you. http://www.meetmoi.com

Bonus Reading

Tell-All Generation Learns to Keep Things Offline

Meet the woman who founded Mother’s Day

14th Annual Webby Nomimees and Winners

BBC News – The distraction society

Know Your Rights: H.264, patent licensing, and you

Here’s a tech aggregator site that will keep you in the loop 24/7.  I value the content on this site and visit it frequently…

Coming Soon: a Synthetic Brain Built from Tens of Thousands of Smartphone Chips

I’m not denying the iPhone 4G isn’t a real working prototype or the validity of Gizmodo’s technical review on the iPhone;  just briefly pointing out different possibilities that Apple can adopt to get more publicity.

Gizmodo reports that the new iPhone 4G with all it’s coolness has been found in lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS.   With fanboys emotionally attached to anything Apple,  it’s not that difficult to equate this being a publicity stunt from Apple.  Below you’ll find an excerpt from the TUAW blog to get you up to speed.

More on the ongoing saga of the wayward next-gen iPhone. Gizmodo just posted their version of the story behind the story: They say that an Apple employee who works on the iPhone’s baseband technology left the mysterious phone at the Gourmet Haus Staudt, a Redwood City bar and restaurant that’s not far from Apple’s campus.

Gizmodo goes onto say that Apple-connected John Gruber—from Daring Fireball—says that Apple has indeed lost a prototype iPhone and they want it back:

So I called around, and I now believe this is an actual unit from Apple — a unit Apple is very interested in getting back.

The usual suspects and sites that support Apple – All people i admire, but when it comes to talking Apple we all know which side they are on.

Insighful comments on Gizmodo’s blog could make you wonder about what’s really going on.

I have no doubt that this is a genuine Apple product. I seriously doubt that this was an accident, though. Apple leaked this on purpose.

Steve Jobs still really hates Eric Schmidt and doesn’t want to lose any sales to the Incredible or the EVO, both of which have yet to be released, and both of which are looking pretty damn good if I must say. You guys don’t think it’s just coincidence that this came about THE DAY that the pre-order page for the Droid Incredible goes live, do you now? Apple’s hoping that consumers in the market for a new phone will skip the Google options and wait for the new iPhone. Steve’s a smart sumbitch. He knows what he’s doing.

Also, the Micro-SIM card leads me to believe that the new iPhone is still going to be an At&t only thing, seeing as they’re the one’s providing the SIMs for the 3G iPad.

And if we haven’t seen it by now, we probably won’t see a CDMA iPhone ever, because Apple’s probably going to save their R&D resources for when LTE is fully up and running.

/secretly wondering if giz is in on it

and..

I mean, the iPhone has a freaking GPS, for Christ’s sake — Apple would have tracked this bitch down months ago, if they were really concerned it would fall into unapproved hands.

or..

And do you really think a lowly 27 year old software underling would be given access to Apple’s biggest secret since the iPad?

What do we really know about what’s going on with the men behind the curtain; one things for sure is that they want to WIN. Certainly Apple wants to make headlines all over the world and competition in business brings out the cleverest strategies.  You decide, do you want to believe the hype or do a little digging of your own?

Bonus Link:

The Apple 4G iPhone Prototype is Probably a Head Fake

Start your week off on the right foot with memorable links into the world of tech and beyond.  For more observations, links and insight follow @Tech_Blend on @Twitter .

The train that never stops at a station – Excellent concept, watch the video on You Tube here.

Why Google can’t out-open Facebook with XAuth - Why should Google be so worried about Facebook? It really boils down to an obvious truth. Facebook is about people, and Google is about the algorithm.

Adobe CEO: Flash coming to Android, WebOS and BlackBerry ’smartphones and tablets’ in 2H 2010 – The blog of Adobe’s Lee Brimelow gives us a likely reason for the delay: Flash Player 10.1 for Android has just entered private beta, as has AIR 2.0, with public betas on the way.

Making AJAX Applications Crawlable – Google code always has interesting information, this one’s great for Ajax developers.

Facebook will this week launch ads based on user’s browser history – Useful hint as to what we might be hearing about at the f8 conference.

Google’s unorthodox press release raises questions - Google’s short statement wasn’t the only surprise on Thursday. Eric Schmidt, its chief executive, did not appear on the conference call with media and analysts, disappointing those looking for guidance from the top.

Innovation in emerging markets: The world turned upside down – Cheap hands rivals rich countries in innovation.

Chatroulette Founder: All Your Chats Are Belong To Me – Founder Andey wants his users to stay and chat on his app, rather than taking it to Facebook.  Read more on what this boy genius is going to do with all the VC money he’s raised.

Twitter’s “Public Interest Graph” – John Battelle’s thoughts on f8, and the very powerful Google Concept – the public interest graph.

Bonus .. (Updated 12:52 / 24 hr display +5 GMT)

XAuth: The Open Web Fires a Shot Against Facebook Connect - this is like facebook connect but for every other social network.  Twitter and Facebook opt out of the consortium of companies including Google, Meebo, MySpace, and Yahoo.

The truth about Mac malware. It’s a joke - I have a new hobby. It’s slightly geeky but it shouldn’t take up too much of my time I have discovered. I like to catalogue Apple Mac malware.

2007 TechCrunch 40: Where Are They Now? – Cool info-graphic with stats on the Original Techcrunch 40 Startups.  Some included: Mint; Flock; Zobni; DocStoc.

Lots of interesting news this week in tech, briefly amongst those Twitter has acquired Tweetie and helped Rim with their Blackberry client.   However this post concentrates on Adobe and Apple’s recent battle with web domination. I have selfish reasons why i wrote this post mainly because I started out in this business as a freelancer developing and creating with Adobe Flash/Flex.

Of course I’ve come a long way since then and embraced different technologies, but  i still love Flash – a tool that has given me so much in my early days – Reminiscent of my early days, I’d just like to give back something in lieu of what’s happening.

Catch up with what’s happening:

• The Twitter Platform’s Inflection Point
• New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler
• Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad
• Is Twitter going to pull a bait and switch on developers?
• Apple Slaps Developers In The Face

I’d like to concentrate on the second and last links in the above lists, bear in mind these are people whom i have alot of respect for.   In reference to what John Gruber said on his blog the other day prior to the release of the iPhone OS 4 SDK & iPhone Developer Program License Agreement.

3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs.

and the new version:

3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).

Gruber goes on with an update which i found his perspective extremely interesting:

UPDATE: To be clear, I do not think that Apple is singling out Flash CS5. I do think, though, that Flash CS5’s cross-compiler epitomizes the sort of meta-frameworks Apple is not going to allow. Same goes for MonoTouch. What Apple doesn’t want — and as we see now, is not going to allow — is for anyone other than Apple to define the framework for native iPhone apps. What Apple is saying here is, if you’re going to write a native iPhone app, then you need to target our platform; if you want to do something else, then target the iPhone with an optimized web app. I.e., the iPhone OS supports two software platforms: Cocoa Touch and the web. Apple isn’t going to let anyone else build a meta-platform on top of Cocoa Touch. I think this comment at Hacker News from “raganwald” nails Apple’s perspective on this.

My reactions, and introducing the brave lone wolf, Lee Brimelow:

While i don’t disagree with John and the comments on Hacker News I will say that the Adobe and Apple are two companies that have worked side by side for a long while now and you wouldn’t expect underhanded moves like this – which to me are clear signs of Apple wanting to dominate and control the market.  All at the cost of  pursuing the demise of it’s allies..

I can’t help but sharing a golden nugget from Lee Brimelow’s reaction to what’s happening with the new iPhone 4.0 SDK:

Many of Adobe’s supporters have mentioned that we should discontinue the Creative Suite products on OS X as a form of retaliation. Again, this is something that Adobe would never consider in a million years. We are not looking to abuse our loyal users and make them pawns for the sake of trying to hurt another company. What is clear is that Apple most definitely would do that sort of thing as is evidenced by their recent behavior.

It’s certainly something to think about, and i agree with Brimelow here; Adobe would never consider that move in a zillion years and it’s plain to see who is the more powerful force, but does that give them the right to abuse other people’s loyalty?

Business is always cutthroat, there’s no doubt about that and I feel Adobe should have seen this coming especially after Flash wasn’t supported on the iPad.  Nevertheless the show must go on..

I’d just like to thank Lee for his outright response and courageous stand, not every developer has the guts to come out in the open like that.  I’ll definitely be purchasing Flash CS5 and putting it to good use in some of my applications in the future.

The Moderate’s Position on iPad Openness
When Apple’s iPad was announced in January, I immediately posted a reaction. Now that the device is out, it seems worth revisiting the subject.
Source:  Alex Payne

Mini-review of the iPad:
I played with an iPad yesterday. Here’s my mini-review. The screen is bright and the touch sensitivity is fantastic. Given that it reminds me the most of an iPhone, it’s surprisingly heavy. It feels dense with potential.
Source: Matt Cutts

The iPad Is Not Really a Computer, But I Wish It Were
On Saturday many of my friends and peers stood in line for hours to be among the first to get Apple’s newest digital device – the iPad. Some even stayed overnight in the rain. I didn’t. I waited all the way until the afternoon to pick up not just one – but two – iPads ..
Source: Louis Gray

Apple iPad review
The Apple iPad. The name is a killing word — more than a product — it’s a statement, an idea, and potentially a prime mover in the world of consumer electronics. Before iPad it was called the Apple Tablet, the Slate, Canvas, and a handful of other guesses — but what was little more than rumor and speculation for nearly ten years is now very much a reality.
Source: Engadget

Why the iPad and iPhone don’t Support Multitasking
There is a lot of misconception around support for multitasking in the iPhone and its giant cousin, the iPad. What follows is my analysis of the situation. I am not privy to any insider Apple information. Moreover, while my knowledge is certainly colored by my work on Android, I’m not drawing a comparison or using any Google-specific knowledge.
Source: Robert Love

Facebook Implements Insider-Trading Policy
Facebook has prohibited its employees from selling their shares to other investors, its latest attempt to clamp down on the selling of its stock on secondary markets.
Source: WSJ

RIP digital me: Saying good-bye to Facebook
Tired of your every move being tracked by hundreds of ‘friends?’ You’re not alone. Thousands of Facebook users taking back their privacy by becoming digital dropouts.
Source: The Globe and Mail

Women, Ambition and (Still) the Pay Gap
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor, explains why women’s compensation and advancement to the highest ranks have failed to keep pace with their impressive inroads into the workforce.

Cleverest women are the heaviest drinkers
Women who went to university consume more alcohol than their less-highly-educated counterparts, a major study has found.
Source: Telegraph News

Rowing solo across the Pacific (photos)
Ocean rower and environmental campaigner Roz Savage plans to set off next week–if conditions are right–on the final leg of her three-stage trip across the Pacific Ocean. The 42-year-old Brit is attempting to become the first woman to row solo across the Pacific.
Source: Barzhini on Facebook

Know when to stop designing, quantitatively
Interface design is more than hand waving and color preferences. When you design anything to be used by humans, there are some fundamental tools which can tell you if one interface is better than another. Quantitatively. Don’t believe me? Answer this:
Source: Aza Raskin

5 Reasons Office 2010 Is Going To Rock Your World
Office 2010, the coming version of Office, is not only the best yet, but is going to make your work day faster, and better. Not to play the fanboy, but if you have not played with Office 2010 yet, you should. You can grab the beta here.
Source: The Next Web

The Ten Plagues of Social Media
Some say we are all becoming “slaves” to social media. The word slave carries lots of meanings and historical references of times and place where “slavery” was practiced.
Source: Relationship Economy

Others:

The Kids are Allright
You Are Not a Gadget: The Continuing Case Against Web 2.0
On the iPad
The future of gaming: up the beanstalk and into the cloud
curl vs Wget
Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds
The math that defines how Web rumors fly

I liked this quote by Bruce Perens, a specialist in Open Source and Open Data, and it got me thinking.

It’s not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I’d be telling you about my awesome… oh, never mind.
Bruce Perens

We’ve all seen various egos in our daily life, with our bosses, coworkers and friends. However this short rant isn’t about the human ego (that’s a whole topic in itself), it’s simply about information which eventually translates to 0’s and 1’s (the matrix effect) and in its most restricted technical meaning, information is an ordered sequence of symbols.

Ask yourself this question. Why am I on Twitter, or FriendFeed or Google Reader? For most people it’s about easy access to the stream of information that surrounds us. Sure we’re there to engage also but the gobs of information always come first.

That said to me the end and b all isn’t just influence, which at times can be missappropriated, misunderstood even over-rated at times. It’s just about absorbing good old information.

So as we journey in this thing called life, take a look around and start appreciating the information around you. Information will never turn on you when you most need it, it will always be there 24/7/365.

Absorb, learn and respect it.

In case you missed them – here’s some interesting technology links and articles to get yourself up to the bleeding edge of technology over the weekend.

(Updated as of  March 14, Sunday)

Clarifying a couple points
Valleywag used a recent podcast I did as material for two points in Six Delusions of Google’s Arrogant Leaders. The two assertions that used my comments as material were “Google’s wealth means Google ‘gets it’” and “Google must sacrifice user privacy to grow.”
Source: Matt Cutts

Apple Now #3
At Friday’s close, these were the five highest market cap U.S. companies.  The biggest oil company. The largest retailer. The leading software company. A conglomerate run by the world’s most respected investor.

Semantics as the Future of Search
In Part I of our two-part “Thinking about the future of search” series, we discussed the social recommendation side of the future of search.  Here, we’ll explore the possibilities of semantic search.
Source: Hypios

Google ‘99.9 Percent’ Sure to Shut Down in China (Update1)
Google Inc. has drawn up detailed plans to shut its search engine in China and is “99.9 percent” certain of going ahead with the closure, the Financial Times reported today, citing a person it didn’t name.
Source: Business Week

One Click Twitter-Clone Now Offered By DreamHost
If you visit the DreamHost blog today, chances are you’ll give a quick guffaw, shake your head in dismay at the state of the Internet and quickly close the browser tab.
Source:  Read Write Web

STAT OF THE DAY: 29 Million People Use The Facebook iPhone App
That’s about a third of the 75+ million iPhone and iPod touch devices that have been shipped so far — a huge percentage of phones. Most super-successful iPhone apps only have a fraction of Facebook’s users.
Source: Business Insider

How Google Approaches Social Media As A Team Sport
According to a recent Smartbrief survey, time is the chief obstacle to engaging in social communities. However, if a business makes social media a team sport, as Google does, anyone can succeed.
Source: Steve Rubel

Forbidden Fruit: Microsoft Workers Hide Their iPhones ($MSFT)
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. employees are passionate users of the latest tech toys. But there is one gadget love that many at the company dare not name: the iPhone.
Source: Business Insider

Court Says Apple Doesn’t Own The Letter “i”
Apple has been dealt a severe blow having been told that it no longer has a monopoly on the letter “i” as part of the name for its products.
Source: Alley Insider

Internet ‘in running’ for Nobel Peace Prize
The internet is among a record 237 individuals and organisations nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Source: Wall Street Journal

Wee Mousie, Fear Not a Touch PC
What’s so great about the mouse, anyway? How is it natural to drag a plastic box across a horizontal surface to move things on a vertical screen two feet away?
Source: New York Times

Why Big Data? Here’s Why I’m Interested
I just had my 2nd conversation this morning before coffee about this fabulous Economist special report on Big Data.
Source: Marshallk

Video Chat on the Plane? Illegal? OK? Legal Gray Area?
I’m writing this at around 36,000 feet, on a United Airlines flight between New York and San Francisco. That’s not so unusual – anymore – Wifi had been on planes for over a year now, and I’ve grown accustomed to the service.
Source: John Battelle

The Power User’s Guide to Google Apps
Using just a small fraction of Google’s vast application offerings? That’s about to end!
Source: Maximum PC

The payment argument is nonsense
In response to my HTML5 apps argument a few people came back to how the payment thingy is missing from my idea, and how it will (apparently) be worthless because of that.
Source: Quirksmode

Which web are you from?
Although I appreciate the global convergence of like minds, I’m terrified by the plague of group think. My interests and the nature of the web allow me to move effortlessly between communities without fear of excommunication.
Source: Victus Spiritus

How to Choose the Right Apple iPad for You
If you are not interested in Apple’s coming iPad and have no intention of buying one, then you may want to skip this post.
Source: New York Times

Apple’s iPhone 4.0 software to deliver multitasking support
Apple this summer will go a long way towards silencing critics and catering to one of the most prevalent demands of its iPhone user base, when it introduces a multitasking solution through the handset’s 4.0 software update that will finally allow several third party apps to run concurrently and in the background.
Source: New York Times

From tiny dotcoms the mighty internet has grown
It’s been 25 years since the first domain name, Symbolics.com, was registered. Rhodri Marsden remembers the small victories that have made web history.
Source: The Independent

Flash and Standards: The Cold War of the Web
You’ve probably heard that Apple recently announced the iPad. The absence of Flash Player on the device seems to have awakened the HTML5 vs. Flash debate. Apparently, it’s the final nail in the coffin for Flash.
Source:  A List Apart

Random thoughts on being an entrepreneur
I wouldn’t say I was an authority on entrepreneurship, certainly not in the same league as people like Fred Wilson or Jason Calacanis. That being said, the last couple of years haven’t been too shabby, either.
Source: Gaping Void

10 Tips for Moving From Programmer to Entrepreneur
Many of the people over at BarCamp are working on/struggling with the transition from programmer to entrepreneur. While I was never a truly “hard core” programmer (meaning lock me in the basement with Mountain Dew for a week and I’ll come out with 100,000 lines of code)
Source: UserScape

Chatroulette Dude: I Don’t Want to Sell. But I’d Like Google To Pay.
The New York Times gives us one more reason to peek into Chatroulette: Anawesome interview with Russian teenager Andrey Ternovskiy, who built the voyeur/chat site everyone loves to talk about.
Source: All Things Digital

Google Chrome is a superior browser to any i’ve used in the past 10 years or so, simply based on its performance. Firefox is great, but i’m not interested in all the add-ons and such that slow a browser down.

What I’m interested in is performance.  As i scower through the web with my many tabs open i want to be able to interact with them quickly as i cycle and rearrange tab by tab.

No other browser has yet given me the ability to browse the web the way Google Chrome has.   Firefox doesn’t even come close when it comes down to the tiniest little details. Lets talk about those details, see if you agree with me?

1. Tab / Memory Management:

Chrome uses much less memory and system resources than many other browsers out there.    This is because of the Multi-process Model built into Chrome.

• Tabs in Chrome: are easy to drag and drop from screen to screen.  You can pop any individual tab out of its parent browser window, rearrange the order and even pop it back.   Sure Firefox and other browsers give you the same functionality, but Chromes experience is far more pleasurable and functional.   Try opening up different tabs and playing around with them, then try Chrome tabs.
• Closing Tabs: When i want close tabs i can right click and close all tabs in Chrome.  That’s a normal option in pretty much any new age browser, however Chrome’s intuitive interface really understands the needs of the user.  For example say i have 10 tabs open and i wanted to close them one by one starting from the right.   In Chrome all i have to do is start with the last one on the right and the others move into place for me to cancel without having the user reposition the mouse cursor.
• Multi Threaded Tabs: If one tab crashes it won’t affect the others.  Google Chrome will allow you to close the tab that is causing problem and switching to other tabs is easy.  This is achieved by the multi-threading as each tab has it’s own memory process.

2.  Speed / Performance:

• Boot Up: When you start chrome it loads up in about a second or two.  I’m on a Windows XP, with about 3 GB ram and it’s start-up speed is just awesome!  Far far better than Firefox’s or any of the other browsers out there.
• Speed: Chrome renders pages much faster than any browser out there, which helps the user get to what he/she wants to read in the quickest amount of time, even with many other tabs open.
• Extensions: Chrome extensions like Googles url shortener, Google Reader install without any fuss or having to restart the browser.

You know the engineers over at Google have tested other browsers and spotted their flaws.  It’s easy to see that they have taken into consideration every little detail into their version of the best browser in the world.

After all every millisecond counts, don’t you think?

Data, data, data – the bottom line. More in this inspirational video on TED by Tim Berners Lee.

Ever wonder what makes all those mashups possible? It’s access to the huge amounts of raw data out there for people to create open source applications that we can learn from and interact with and use for our research purposes.

There’s a swarm of data out there, personal, government, economic, weather, news and still so much linked data (data with connections) is still not available to us.   Imagine if we had access to all the data in the world to play with and create super useful applications? It’s certainly something to think about.

However, the only slight problem is:

We will need tonnes of people with enough criteria to make sense of this huge amounts of information if they are made public. Unfortunately the (lack of proper) education in quite some countries is not helping (at all) in that direction. ~ Gilbert Martinez Gamote

and the semi solution to that might be:

As a programmer I get really excited about mashing up data from different sources, but what it really needs is a single application that automatically combines this data so anyone can do it, at the moment it’s still quite technical. ~ Matthew Wilcoxson

We’ve come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web in 2009 and we’re sure to see advances in technology helping others reuse that data in a easier, less technical way.

This has everyone to do with us as data is a part of our lives Tim Berners Lee goes on to say. It’s not just huge companies and institutions that come to mind, it’s your normal human being who wants interopability between social networks on the web.

Now that’s an idea worth talking about…

Notice the cute icons before the links? Try hovering over them and you’ll get a preview too. All thanks to a nifty plugin called Apture, be sure to check that out.