- Community Principles ‎(Google Wave Federation Protocol)‎
- “The Google Wave Federation Protocol is evolving as an open source project, and as the community and technology grows, here are the guiding principles:
* Wave is an open network: anyone should be able to become a wave provider and interoperate with the public network
* Wave is a distributed network model: traffic is routed peer-to-peer, not through a central server
* Make rapid progress, together: a shared commitment to contribute to the evolution and timely deployment of protocol improvements
* Community contributions are fundamental: everyone is invited to participate in the public development process
* Decisions are made in public: all protocol specification discussions are recorded in a public archive”
- “The Google Wave Federation Protocol is evolving as an open source project, and as the community and technology grows, here are the guiding principles:
- The Datacenter as a Computer
- “This is a 120 page document describing the design of state of the art, large scale computing facilities, such as those run by the big Internet companies. It discusses everything from facilities issues through the computing hardware through to the software infrastructure. This is an excellent design guide about how everyone should be designing data centers of all sizes, not just huge facilities. Don’t be intimidated by its length: it is very easy to read. Just browse the table of contents and pick and choose the sections that interest you. I particularly enjoyed Chapter 5: Energy and Power Efficiency.”
- Ask Hacker News: What Web-apps increase your productivity?
- As opposed to being great sucking time-sinks…
- Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump – Blog – Stack Overflow
- “We decided early on that all user-generated content on Stack Overflow would be under a Creative Commons license.
All those great Stack Overflow questions, answers, and comments, so generously contributed by all of you, are licensed under cc-wiki:”
- “We decided early on that all user-generated content on Stack Overflow would be under a Creative Commons license.
- Green Lantern Trailer
- Extraordinary fan made trailer. Hope someone makes it…
- Abe Tries Again: It’s hard to laugh at what used to be funny
- SF311 (SF311) on Twitter
- Twitter user being used by the City of San Francisco to track problems in the city. Likely an opportunity for data mining / mashups. Should be very interesting to see what emerges…
- New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets – Conversation Starter – HarvardBusiness.org
- Hadoop Book
- Keeping up with the genetic revolution – New York Times
- Historically interesting 1983 article from the NYT magazine. Remarkable how clearly people saw the sequencing of the human genome coming, right down to how long it would take.
- NASA Uses Semantic Web to Help Power its Constellation Program
- “Semantic technology company TopQuadrant announced today that NASA is using its semantic application platform, the TopBraid Suite, to “model, organize, integrate and exchange data” within the NASA Constellation Program. The goal of the NASA Constellation Program, announced in 2004, is to explore the solar system – starting with a return to the Moon and ultimately aiming to explore Mars and other destinations. “
- Google Patents
- Final Guidelines For Determining Utility Of Gene-Related Inventions
- The US Patent Office’s Guidelines (issued Jan 5, 2001) for examining gene-related patents. Fascinating discussion of law and whether you can patent the stuff of life.
- How your research makes the headlines – physicsworld.com
- Surprisingly accurate.
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