Category: Big Picture
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Github blocked in India — why even business needs a decentralized internet
Today’s news: Internet users in India are starting to lose to access websites including GitHub, Internet Archive, Pastebin, and Vimeo under an order from India’s DoT (Department of Telecom). … “The websites that have been blocked were based on an advisory by Anti Terrorism Squad, and were carrying Anti India content from ISIS.” So, somebody…
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Why Bosch thinks the #IoT needs to be open-source
Matt Asay points to a key slide in a recent Bosch presentation: Here we have a $40+ billion dollar company, which concludes: 2-5 major IoTS platforms (in next 5-7 years) At least one of them will be Open Source Bosch not able to develop one of these proprietary platforms alone and customers/partners would not accept…
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What’s the opposite of the Web 2.0 architecture?
Dave Winer was nice enough to respond to my question: So what do you call this architecture where your data is on your site, running the code you want, with your own terms with a full blog post titled My Architecture is called RSS. I guess I should have seen this coming ;-) but I…
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Sen. Wyden: Your data’s yours no matter on whose server it lives
This is significant, and very welcome. US Sen. Wyden is quoted by the Washington Post as follows: “Some will still argue that by sharing data freely with Facebook, Google, Mint, Uber, Twitter, Fitbit or Instagram, Americans are choosing to make that data public. But that is simply not the case,” And he continues with one…
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Facebook’s veto over what friends get to tell us
David Weinberger has a great op-ed on CNN.com titled “When is Facebook NOT messing with your head?” on the recent “psychological experiment” controversy. My feelings are exactly the same that he expresses: So, I’m upset about Facebook’s cavalier toying with our emotions, but I’m far more disturbed about what Facebook and other such sites do…