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DIYcity Members are Using Web Technologies to Improve Cities
DIYcity is a site where people ponder, collaborate, and ultimately develop tools for making their cities function better with web technologies.
Their are local groups in cities around the world. Making up the groups are Web developers, urban planners, sustainability designers, students, government workers. DIYcity members collaborate to help invent new ways of applying free and [...]
Great Aussie Firewall
The Australian government is moving forward with plans to filter out over 1000 Websites they have deemed inappropriate for public consumption. The effort, now referred to as the Great Aussie Firewall, has sparked protests and concern about what other forms of censorship this could lead to over time.
For more about the recent battles being fought: [...]
‘Where the Hell is Matt?’ Video
These two videos should put a smile on your face. If not, then you need a new face with space for a smile. Matt went around the world and created these fun videos to memorialize his adventures and share some fun with the rest of us.
The second video (see full article) consists of the clips [...]
Mauiman the Digital Man
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No point… just found it interesting.
ISRO Out Does Google Earth
ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organization, is rolling-out a rival to Google Earth, the online satellite imagery service, by the end of this year.
The project, named Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), will allow users to zoom into areas as small as 10 meters wide, compared to the 200 meters wide zoom maximum on Google Earth.
For more [...]
Facebook Funny
I always enjoy the cartoonist’s perspective of the Internet Revolution.
Not sure how everyone’s photo is verified are you?
Million Dollar Domain Names
Chris Clark of Maryland bought pizza.com back in 1994 in preparation of landing a client in the pizza business for his internet consulting services. Fortunately for him that prospect never did become a client so he held onto the name.
The other day an anonymous bidder paid $2.6 million for the domain. For more information: pizza.com
While [...]
The Grid Will Render the Internet Obsolete
A super fast internet is being built by some big-brained scientists at Cern in Geneva.
The internet has evolved by linking together a hodgepodge of cables and routing equipment, much of which was originally designed for telephone calls and therefore lacks the capacity for high-speed data transmission.
The grid, on the other hand has been built with [...]