The Open Knowledge Foundation launched the Open Data Index, so you can see…
Data Sharing
Sharing is caring.
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Global status tracker for open government data
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U.S. Open Data Institute
With a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, Waldo Jaquith pushes forward with…
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Path Social Networking App Settles FTC Charges
Path, a social networking app that lets you track and share personal information about yourself, settled with the FTC for $800k. They allegedly collected kids’ personal information without their parents’ consent. This is from February but important to know.
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Problematic databases used to track employee theft
Employee theft accounts for billions of dollars of lost merchandise per year, so…
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How to stop ad trackers →
Is all this tracking and predicting getting out of hand?
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PDF data woes
We do not provide these tables in Excel or CSV format. You will…
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Open data doesn’t empower communities
internet.artizans reflects on the usefulness of open data:
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Instant electric bike and data collector
When you ride your bicycle around, I bet you always wish for two…
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Tim Berners-Lee with an update on open data
If people put data on the Web – government data, scientific data, community…
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Open Thread: Is Google Latitude Dangerous?
Google recently released Google Latitude, which is an online application that lets you…
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Walker Tracker – A Community Site for Pedometer Fans
Tracking your foot steps with a pedometer just became social.
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100 Reasons You Should Be Interested in, Want to Share, and Get Excited About Data
When I talk about data, people often zone out or don’t really see…
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Access Restrictions on the Release of Gun Sales Data
I just found this in my draft folder from a while back. It’s…
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Second Day of New York Taxi Strikes
As the second day of the New York taxi strike begins over GPS…
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Don’t want to share our data / OK, what’re you hiding?
I don’t want my credit card numbers floating around, because then I’d be…
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My Mission is to Collect Basic Data
I began my path of higher education at Berkeley as an Electrical Engineering…
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Immigration Data Available from Homeland Security
There was a Sharp Rise Seen in Applications for Citizenship, as reported in…
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CitiStat: Injured on Duty “Data”
I was flipping through the channels the other night and came across a…