From the monthly archives:

May 2010

How to be a Gov 2.0 Ninja @lostonroute66 #g2e #gov20 #ux #ixd #ogov

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Focus on Pillbox Has API – drive traffic to it Pillbox by phone – queries pillbox by speaking – created by student at GWU – created it in 3 weeks There’s an IM version of it tool iPhone Pill Discovery App – someone scraped our data and made the app PharmvilleRx – prescribe meds, does [...]

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Democratizing Content: Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee #g2e #gov20 #crushit

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Built $60M job w/ Web 1.0 strategy How I built brand, and amazing opportunity America is the brand that sold my parents Not techie, not interested in platform.  Like message. Disrupted my marketplace in 24 months We have been in push business for last 70 years Now in pull business Writing new book on ROI of [...]

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Creating Passionite Citizens: Kathy Sierra #g2e #gov20 #ux #ixd

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Gov Social Media fantasy: Open Data; ????; Passion!   < really??? No, so we need to see what people are really interested in and passionate about You hear more the more you’ve learned about music, or see more if stargazer  High resolution means deeper dive.  Must find a way to enable “kicking ass & higher res” [...]

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Berners-Lee: Open, Linked Data for a Global Community #g2e #gov20 #semanticweb

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Tim Berners-Lee Four levels: Putting info up, making it accessible, give it location and linking it. Name: not crisps – called potato ships – local name Working on potato chips labeling…nutrition facts, serving size, calories – that’s what people look for in US Bar code – language understood globally by machines Need common schema and [...]

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The Pillars of Gov 2.0 #g2e #gov20 #cloud #australia

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Senator Kate Lundy @katelundy Australian government – seeing a lot in UK, US, and Canada Pillars: Democratizing data, make information publicly available in useful open format.  Attitude and practice needed. (GovHack) Citizen-Centric Services: always up-to-date.  Not obscured by org-chart of gov.  Give personal detail based on personal info they are willing to provide. Participatory Government: [...]

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Unlocking Real-Time Data #g2e #gov20 #cloud

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Joshua Rubin, Unlocking Real-Time Data Unlocking real-time – why hard? National weather service is open…so consumers have lots of choices Opened up MBTA (Boston) data, several apps built quickly for schedule Traditional model: countdown system, then shared.  What if we shared first bus location system first. Provided real-time data feed.  W/in 1 hour someon had [...]

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Cloud Computing Services: O’Reilly chat w/ Google and City of LA. #g2e #cloud #gov2

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Randy Levin (City of LA), Dave Girourd (Google), O’Reilly Going to cloud, saving $500M Novell currently for email. End of RFP process what would need is going to google and leapfrog Google – biggest cloud objectives who owns data how is it managed data distributed over massive computing infrastructure Google: not trying to lock people [...]

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New Opportunities and Responsibilities in Cloud. Microsoft #g2e #gov20 #cloud

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Brad Smith, SVP Microsoft World racing to the cloud New power for info – 311 – e.g., getting pothole fixed.  Can report and see progress Took them 8 days from conception to deployment.  From platform people know and understand. NASA – JPL – Arizona state + Windows Azure – can look at Mars pictures and [...]

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Cloud Computing Services: O’Reilly chat w/ Google and City of LA. #g2e #cloud #gov20

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Randy Levin (City of LA), Dave Girourd (Google), O'Reilly Going to cloud, saving $500M Novell currently for email. End of RFP process what would need is going to google and leapfrog Google – biggest cloud objectives who owns data how is it managed data distributed over massive computing infrastructure Google: not trying to lock people [...]

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yolink – Interesting new search tool #ixd #ux

May 25, 2010 Uncategorized

via yolink.com This one actually dives to a specific paragraph within a document, not just the document itself. Novel search strategy. Posted via web from John Whalen’s Posterous

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