What a crazy week here in Washington. We said goodbye to a courageous innovator on Wednesday night, Steve Jobs who at 56 lost his 8 year long battle with pancreatic cancer. The political debate continues to heat up, causing a rare display of anger on the Senate floor yesterday. And it appears that Sarah Palin,Read… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Good-bye, Steve Jobs. His products are in the pockets and on the desks of countless Americans, both within and beyond the government. When he died, his customers, colleagues, competitors, compatriots, and admirers from across the globe poured out their hearts in a torrent of tweets. One artist captured them in this visualization. PlanningRead… Read more »
For those who don’t know: Today – October 7th – is Ada Lovelace Day. It’s a day where you “share your story about a woman — whether an engineer, a scientist, a technologist or mathematician — who has inspired you to become who you are today.” It would be remiss for me not to blogRead… Read more »
Hoping to join the list of public agencies that have benefited from the open data movement, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority is cosponsoring a hackathon on October 8-9. The idea is to spur the creation of new applications that use SEPTA’s real-time data to benefit the riding public. As a recent hackathon in San FranciscoRead… Read more »
TriMet (OR) quietly unveiled the public beta for its new open-source multimodal trip planner this week, with the official launch scheduled for October 15. Developed in partnership with OpenPlans, the application will let users plan trips that combine transit, walking, and biking. For trips with a bicycle component, travelers can ask for the fastest itineraryRead… Read more »
The Texas Tribune Out of the Smoke-Filled Room and Onto the Internet By REEVE HAMILTON Published: October 6, 2011 The concept of crowdsourcing — soliciting information from a wide range of people responding to an open call over the Internet — is drawing some interest at the Capitol and could play a significant role inRead… Read more »
The newest highly scalable social media capability on the grid is WayIn. WayIn leverages the ubiquitous Internet, the increasingly pervasive smart phone and tablet platforms, globally deployed desktop devices to connect with people. WayIn builds upon the lessons learned from Sun Microsystem’s greatest cloud computing architects and business minds. And it fills a need manyRead… Read more »
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The Office of Consular Systems and Technology (CST) leads the State Department‘s IT efforts. This is an amazing organization that has been delivering high quality, high throughput systems and solutions for years. This group really is our first line of defense against threat actors so we should all be thankful the team here performs atRead… Read more »
The whole world is eulogizing Steve Jobs today, on Twitter, in the media, in cafes, everywhere. On the alumni list for ITP, the grad program I went to, someone wrote in about an encounter he had with Jobs: I asked him, “if you could talk to yourself from 20 years ago, what would you talkRead… Read more »