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Github, the collaborative platform for programmers, now has $100 million to finance its expansion into a full-fledged social network. Strikingly, this is the largest investment yet by venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, widely followed for being ahead of the curve.
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At the Training Institute set up by the Robert Kennedy Foundation in Florence, activists for human rights from all over the world come and learn how to smartly use the internet as a tool to get their job done. It takes courage to work for spreading the ideas that are needed to help people in some countries in growing a society that respects human rights. Delete the scoop?
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Institutional investors are taking over the nascent peer-to-peer lending industry, and in doing so, taking the “peer” out of the equation. For their part, “peer-to-peer” lending platforms likeLending Club, Prosper,FundingCircle, Zopa, Peerform, and Ratesetter are embracing the shift. Delete the scoop?
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Around the world, the open source movement has been a boon to designers, artists and developers, providing them with free use of designs for electronic hardware and software, including 3D printers and game controllers. Delete the scoop?
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Google's Buzz social network stands as one of the company's most high-profile missteps to date, but the search giant is taking the "last step" to put the failed service behind it. Past Buzz users received an email (discovered by Engadget) from Google yesterday saying that it's moving all Buzz data to Google Drive. A pair of archives will appear in all users' Drives: one private, which contains all Buzz data, and one public, which will show data that was previously made public, and is accessible to anyone with the link. Neither of the archives will count towards your Google Drive storage allowance. The shift will take place on July 17th, and any users worried about the transition can head to their Google Profile to delete any posts they don't want transfered. Delete the scoop?
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In Rome, during the event "Atoms, Bits & People", we talk with Eddie Kirkby, from FabLab Manchester Delete the scoop?
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OUR mobile carriers know our locations: where our phones travel during working hours and leisure time, where they reside overnight when we sleep. Verizon Wireless even sells demographic profiles of customer groups — including ZIP codes for where they “live, work, shop and more” — to marketers. But when I called my wireless providers, Verizon and T-Mobile, last week in search of data on my comings and goings, call-center agents told me that their companies didn’t share customers’ own location logs with them without a subpoena. Delete the scoop?
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The power of computers networked to support the digital currency Bitcoin system exceeds the combined processing power of the most powerful 500 supercomputers in the world. There were somenews about Bitcoin in recent months due to the spectacular growth in value – from $5 for a Bitcoin last year, to the peak of $266 reached in April, before dropped to about $122, as it is today. Delete the scoop?
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Social Business: Valuable Inside as Well as Out CFO Magazine If you can't recall, says Vala Afshar, chief marketing and customer officer for network security firm Enterasys, your business is probably missing out on innovations and ideas fostered by... Delete the scoop?
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Mickos defends the open core license as being a healthy alternative for software startups. Delete the scoop?
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WikiSpeed is a social enterprise applying cutting-edge collaboration techniques from the open-source software world, to solve problems for social good. Delete the scoop?
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Past scandals, bad photos, critical comments: the internet has a long memory. Delete the scoop?
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Car sharing with strangers a growing bus...As a result of the recent economic crisis, the US ...Companies like Sidecar and Lyft, operating in citi...Zimride is the alternative for longer distances. Delete the scoop?
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An open source business model for short films. I've spent a lot of time over the years thinking about how to address this short film paradox: people love great shorts when they get to see them, but rarely get to see them. Delete the scoop?
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Why do teenagers behave the way that they do online, sharing personal information with just about anybody who wants it? Look to the privacy paradox. Delete the scoop?
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LONDON – Suddenly a robotized, automated economic reality is moving off the science fiction pages and into daily life. The growing use of unmanned battlefield drones is encouraging the growth of pilotless commercial aircraft — the first ever flew in British airspace last month. Google’s driverless car is completing ever more trials ever more successfully: the world’s major car companies are all hot in pursuit, working on their own prototypes of their own versions. The automated checkout at supermarkets is becoming as familiar as bank cash machines. From staff-free ticket offices to students who can learn online, it seems there is no corner of economic life in which people are not being replaced by machines. Delete the scoop?
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The Social Media Revolution: jaw-dropping facts and figures from Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and more! Delete the scoop?
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Rifkin: "This is the moment of decision". Global temperatures might rise up to 6 degrees by the end of the century. He made his remarks during a speech for "The Solar Future" congress in Eindhoven, May 23 2013. Source: www.new-energy.tv. Delete the scoop?
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Students, faculty, and industry representatives packed the Obendorf Event Center at Stanford's GSB Tuesday evening to hear from an expert panel on the newly emerging collaborative consumption economy. The panel included representatives from across the industry: Andre Haddad, CEO of RelayRides; Andy Ruben, Co-Founder at Yerdle; Peter Dempster of BMW's Technology Office; and Ronny Conway, Partner at Venture Capital Firm Andreesen Horowitz. Delete the scoop?
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Cleanweb is about applying tech solutions to resource problems-- in energy, water, waste, transit, food, air, and other areas-- by taking advantage of the powerful trends in cheap computing power, mob (Start next week off learning about the sharing... Delete the scoop?
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Contrary to vertically integrated, non-collaborative media companies, platform publishing is an ecosystem whereby platform based service providers enable the emergence of new innovative micro-publishing models. Delete the scoop?
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China's thriving culture of hacking poses the greatest information security risk in the world and especially Africa. http://t.co/Xx4q5csXYJ Delete the scoop?
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RT @RobinGood: Three New and Emerging Open Source Business Models http://tinyurl.com/34ebj9x Delete the scoop?
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Yochai Benkler, Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law, Yale Law School (RT @MariamCook: Watching, again: Yochai Benkler - Freedom in the Commons: Towards a Political Economy of Information... Delete the scoop?
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Our technology may be getting smarter, but a provocative new study suggests human intelligence is on the decline. In fact, it indicates that Westerners have lost 14 I.Q. points on average since the Victorian Era. Delete the scoop?
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The world was introduced to conspicuous consumption in 1899 when Thorstein Veblen wrote the book The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. Veblen explained that some people express their prestige and social status by spending money and acquiring luxury goods. At that time, before the middle class had fully emerged, only a handful of people were able to indulge in conspicuous spending, which is what made luxuries so prestigious. Over the last century, however, attitudes towards conspicuous spending, as well as the spending habits, themselves, have changed. More and more people have access to luxury goods, which has made conspicuous consumption generally more accessible, and therefore less desirable in illustrating social prestige. Delete the scoop?
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