Separate but Equal Hits the Open Source Community
Posted by Jon Gos
I wrote a blog post a while back about location based profiling on the web. Many websites do it, particularly television and movie sites and financially sensitive websites. The reasoning I can often gather from looking at the terms of service and other language is that these sites are simply trying to ‘protect’ their users [...]
Read MoreWhite House Opens Up with Drupal
Posted by Jon Gos
The White House is going open source. Over the weekend, the White House announced that whitehouse.gov now runs on Drupal. Until now, the Obama administration has continued to use tools purchased during the previous administration. These tools severely limited what the administration could do with the website, limiting opportunities for interaction with users.
Read MoreComing Soon, Twitter in Your Language!
Posted by Jon Gos
Long limited to English and Japanese, Twitter is crowd-sourcing translations for its interface. Starting with German, French, Spanish, and Italian, Twitter is going multi-lingual. The Twitter blog says:
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1 Household in 5 Worldwide has Broadband
Posted by Jon Gos
A new Gartner study says that one household in five will have broadband access by the end of 2009.
A total of 422 million households will have a fixed broadband connection in the home in 2009, up from 382 million households in 2008, and the market will steadily grow with nearly 580 million households having a fixed broadband connection by 2013.
Read MoreKirk Franklin Tweets from Kampala, Uganda Riot
Posted by Jon Gos
Popular American Gospel artist Kirk Franklin tweeted as he was caught up in riots in Kampala, Uganda yesterday afternoon.
The penman of the songs “Stomp” and “Do You Want a Revolution” was returning from a visit with Uganda’s Vice President.
KIRK FRANKLIN, an American gospel singer and author, was yesterday caught up in the Kampala city riot [...]
