March 2008
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Foundations: OpenSocial & Others
Yahoo, Google and MySpace announced the launch of the OpenSocial Foundation this morning.
Essentially, the group will provide resources to those willing to build on shared open-standards in order to increase access to social apps for all. (Sort of like the Mozilla Foundation’s mission of open standards programming). The idea is to reduce the amount of duplicate work amongst developers. This...
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Yes We Can: Obama, Dave Eggers & Politics of Hope
I hate to be conventional, but popular is popular, and rumor has it that the TED (technology, education and design) conference closed with this particular meme as a launch pad. I give you: Barack Obama, Yes We Can.
On January 29, 2008, Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas had the idea for the above video while watching Sen. Obama in a televised debate. By February 2nd, the musician had already...