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by cjoh 15y ago
Where's the Hackernews sense of opportunism. There's no set-aside on this RFP which means its eligible to anybody.
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by cjoh 15y ago
Google will be in the transportation and shipping business by then.
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Engagement on the Three Social Networks(infovegan.com)
2 points by cjoh 15y ago|0 comments
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by cjoh 15y ago
I guess it depends on how you look at it. Every internet IPO was financed by Uncle Sam in my mind.
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by cjoh 15y ago
Seems fine by me. Government's pretty good at financing long-term innovation like this. See, for instance, the Internet.
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An Open LEtter to Federal CIO Vivek Kundra(infovegan.com)
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by cjoh 15y ago
Problem isn't what gov spends its money on, but how it spends its money: http://infovegan.com/2010/11/02/how-vs-what
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by cjoh 15y ago
The author seems really angry at Google and clearly wants to demonstrate how much smarter he is in comparison to the rest of the organization. Nearly every sentence is drenched with this sort of stuff: "It hits all the notes that a facebook
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by cjoh 15y ago
I can send invites now. Floods of people joining. I think 6 hours counts as imminent.
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by cjoh 15y ago
I'm in there -- Google Employees are playing a good ground game answering people's questions and such and from what I've heard, invitations are imminent.
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What Google Learned from Wave and Buzz(smarterware.org)
152 points by cjoh 15y ago|62 comments
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by cjoh 15y ago
Dropbox's security is twitter's downtime. While much more is at stake than not being able to tweet, I can't imagine that this isn't their number one growth challenge -- something that, if they conquer it, will give them a much higher market
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IContact Hacked?(traceful.tumblr.com)
1 points by cjoh 15y ago|0 comments
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by cjoh 15y ago
This is unreal-- from the FAQ: Q:I know that other drivers and development software for Kinect are available on the Web. Can I use the Kinect sensor device with these other drivers or software instead of the SDK Beta? A: No. Use of the Kine
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by cjoh 15y ago
Don't want to publish information without unattributable sources, but -- the deal is in Washington that Obama gave his appointees until August 30th to decide whether or not they wanted to stay on through the remainder of his present term. B
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by cjoh 15y ago
Weird that Nokia wasn't mentioned. Depending on how you count it, Nokia is nearly 150 years old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia
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by cjoh 15y ago
The best part of this is when they say "Oh, we're setting up a working group to help resolve this problem" and follow it up with: "Due to FACA, the work of the NPEF is limited to U.S. government personnel and contractors." The problem is pr
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by cjoh 15y ago
The present whitehouse.gov contract was signed in 2008, on November 4th. Recovery.gov went on in 2009. A new whitehouse.gov will likely get purchased in 2012 when the 2008 contract expires. It will likely cost more than 12 million.
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by cjoh 15y ago
The problem really is procurement. If there's any thing I wish this community would understand, it's that. See -- big government contractors have things locked up. They make campaign contributions to members of congress who create regulatio
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The interesting thing here is the subtle shot that Apple is taking at Google with iOS. Readability like functionality removes advertisements. In the talk they said that safari represents 2/3rds of mobile web browsing. And that web browser i
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by cjoh 15y ago
I just don't see how they're remotely close to the same thing. But opinions are opinions -- Rdio combines the ease of discovery of a service like Pandora with the selection of a decent music store. And that it can locally cache songs on a d
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by cjoh 15y ago
Not sure if Rdio's been smoted. I mean, I can get any song I want at any time on any device with rdio for a low monthly price. iTunes is still charging me to own songs, and my selection is still bound by the storage capacity of my device. R
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by cjoh 15y ago
Since it is down, this is probably useful: https://github.com/plivo/plivo
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by cjoh 15y ago
Great work. There's so much space available helping companies managing their incoming data. This is a great start. Though I haven't been through a hiring process in awhile, I'm surprised though that this doesn't have some kind of referral b
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by cjoh 15y ago
I should note though that none of that is why I downvoted you. I downvoted you because I thought the comment was not substantive,was inflammatory, and didn't bring any value to the conversation other than what came across as confrontational
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by cjoh 15y ago
I downvoted this comment. I work in the government transparency space, and I can tell you I think these tools are incredibly useful. Overall, if you do some deep diving into what data.gov actually costs the answer is -- as always that it de
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by cjoh 15y ago
The Sunlight Foundation, OMBWatch, POGO, and a variety of trade associations for newspapers and investigative reporters lobby on behalf of transparency issues.
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by cjoh 15y ago
The dumb part here is really that cutting these problems INCREASES the cost of government. By a lot. Taking public data offline, or making it less accessible means it gets FOIAd instead. FOIA costs the government a half billion dollars a ye
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by cjoh 15y ago
Bundled with TextMate 2?
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by cjoh 15y ago
I'll point out its a rookie mistake to compare what is basically the executive branch of China's government to America's representative branch. It's apples to oranges. Looking at the executive branch, the United States has: State, Hillary C

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