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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 teach about meds, even if irreverent
Sharing [...]

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”
Don’t make a better [...]

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: always been there with [...]

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 in
O’R: do you feel locked in?  
L: No [...]