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Eben Moglen idea (more)

The Domain seizures by the United States authorities in recent days and upcoming legislation that could make similar takeovers even easier in the future, have inspired a group of enthusiasts to come up with a new, decentralized and BitTorrent-powered DNS system (Dot P2p). This system will exchange DNS information through peer-to-peer transfers and will work with a new .p2p (P2P) domain extension. (TLD?) (more)

A handy breakdown of NoSQL engines. Key-Value Store, Key-Value Cache, Object Data Base, Document Oriented, etc. But do those distinctions matter? "Who will win?" Steven asks. He answers: the most approachable API with enough power will win. I guess the taxonomy doesn't matter. (more)

The Center For An Urban Future released a report looking at Nyc Challenges in supporting greater Innovation. The study argues that the institutions themselves have been a big part of the problem. It shows that the leaders of the city's universities and nonprofit research centers have not been particularly supportive of efforts to spin off new tech ventures, have not dedicated enough resources to engineering programs and, in many cases, have been too preoccupied with licensing the technologies from university research to existing firms located elsewhere, rather than to start-ups that have the potential to create jobs locally. (more)

(Summary of Hierarchy Of Needs (Motivation): survival/food; security/territory; love, belongingness; Self Esteem; Self Actualization. Self Actualization means (to some) doing something pursely for the pleasure of doing it well.) (more)

Thinking (at Brain Fart stage) about Open Book Data... why? (more)

LinkedIn is creating a lot of original technology, much of which has been Open Source-d. Instead of writing algorithms to make People You Know Know more accurate, he worked on getting LinkedIn’s Hadoop infrastructure in place and built a distributed database called Volde Mort. Since then, he’s built Azka Ban, an open source scheduler for batch processes such as Hadoop jobs, and Kaf Ka, another open source tool that Kreps called “the Big Data equivalent of a Message Broker.” At a high level, Kaf Ka is responsible for managing the company’s real-time data and getting those hundreds of feeds to the apps that subscribe to them with minimal latency... One of the most-important things the company has built is a new database system called Es Presso. Unlike Volde Mort, which is an eventually consistent Key-Value store modeled after (the) Amazon Dynamo database and used to serve certain data at high speeds, Espresso is a transactionally consistent Document Store that’s going to replace legacy Oracle databases across the company’s web operations. It was originally designed to provide a usability boost for LinkedIn’s In Mail messaging service, and the company plans to open source Espresso later this year.

Apache Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system. It is an Apache Software Foundation top-level project[1] designed to handle very large amounts of data spread out across many commodity servers while providing a highly available service with no single point of failure. It is a NoSQL solution that was initially developed by Facebook and powered their Inbox Search feature until late 2010.[2][3] Jeff Hammerbacher, who led the Facebook Data team at the time, has described Cassandra as a BigTable data model running on an Amazon Dynamo-like infrastructure.[4] Cassandra provides a structured Key-Value store with tunable consistency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Cassandra

Aaron Swartz Triple Store? (more)

Jeff Klima lists 5 possible scenarios for the future of YouTube: network of Creator Space-s; Free Mium model (start charging for some content); Soft Porn; merchandise; starts Record Label. (more)

NYC will start a new Public School Academy For Software Engineering. (Educating Kids In Nyc, Computer Programming) (more)

In February 2011, a group of entrepreneurs banded together and formed 'The Startup Exemption' with the goal to lobby Washington DC to update the Federal Security Laws to make it legal for Entrepreneur-s to use Crowd Funding for a limited amount of early-stage equity-based financing (Private Capital). With the assistance of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (SBEC) they partook in two hearings on Capitol Hill. Their framework was the basis for the Entrepreneur Access To Capital Act (HR:2930) introduced by Rep. Patrick Mc Henry (R-NC). In November 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R 2930 in a vote 407-17. It reduces restrictions on small-scale crowdfunding of for-profit businesses currently present in state and securities law. The Democratizing Access To Capital Act (S:1791) was awaiting action in the U.S. Senate. (Investment Crowdfunding) (more)

Angel List and Funders Club got No Action letters from the SEC, meaning they're free to keep moving their Crowd Funding Platform-s forward. The Jobs Act is moving forward. (more)

Venkatesh Rao gives a great contrasting of Network Economy thinking vs the Old Economy thinking of Washington DC esp demonstrated by Barack Obama's American Jobs Act (Job Creation) proposal. (more)

Don Tapscott has created a Taxonomy of Global Solution Network-s. * (more)

*Ushahidi, Inc. is a non-profit software company that develops free and open source software (LGPL) for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. (more)

People aiming to Change The World through Network organizations rather than more-traditional institutions. (more)

Python Computer Game development library (more)

Dave Winer thinks that, rather than cloning Google Reader, we should building something more like an RSS-based Open Twitter: every developer could experiment with different scanning possibilities, and different presentations, and different whatevers.