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The original ATCA -- Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance -- is a philanthropic expert initiative founded in 2001 to resolve complex global challenges through collective Socratic dialogue and joint executive action to build a wisdom based global economy.
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Via VentureBeat's Jolie O'Dell: 'Some of Facebook’s open-source projects include Phabricator, a suite of web apps for code review, which Facebook uses for its own development; Cassandra, an open source distributed database management system; HipHop, which transforms source code from PHP to C++; the company’s Javascript optimization efforts, called ...
Kate Raynes-Goldie: "I think the best way to understand how Facebook has gone beyond being just a social networking site is to see how it has evolved from what we meant by social networking site in 2004. Facebook’s three big axes of change can be summarized in terms of access, audience and information the first two of which are closely intertwined....
Statistics, from Ryan Lanham: Recent numbers on Facebook's usage and growth: 1. There has been a staggering increase in the number of 55+ users – with total growth of 513.7% in in the last six months alone. 1. More than 1 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each week (every statistic above is ...
Aral Balkan: "Facebook’s business model is to be the man in the middle; to track every move you, your family, and your friends make, to store all that information indefinitely, and continuously analyse it to understand you better in order to exploit you by manipulating you for financial and political gain. Facebook isn’t a social network, it is a s...
The Privacy issue: Facebook will never be safe
Jacob Appelbaum: "How to use Facebook safely Here’s the easy solution: don’t fucking surveil yourself! If you want to stay safe on Facebook, the answer is, you should not use it, and don’t tag people! There are benefits of using it, there are tradeoffs, but in the long run I think it’s going to be pretty bad that you gave a bunch of capitalists all your private information where the US government asserts and has the right to read it without a warrant and with the ability to gag the corporate....
Facebook as P2P Infrastructure?
Techdirt: "Mark Zuckerberg's letter to shareholders included in Facebook's IPO filing contains a pretty bold vision for Facebook to not just connect people and enable them to share, but to fundamentally restructure the way that the world works: - By helping people form these connections, we hope to rewire the way people spread and consume information. We think the world’s information infrastructure should resemble the social graph — a network built from the bottom up or peer-to-peer, rather t...
Openness
Glyn Moody: "Facebook is built on free software, as this post notes: From the day Mark Zuckerberg started building Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004, the site has been built on common open source software such as Linux, Apache, memcached, MySQL, and PHP. Moreover, it has established a nice track record of releasing its own code as free software. There are now more than 20 packages it has opened up."(http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2768)
Lines of tension between community and governance in Facebook, from Unit Structures blog athttp://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2007/11/were-not-sheep-youre-just-not-paying.html The delicious tag at http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Facebook The Economics of Privacyat Facebook. 1. P2P Foundation on Facebook 1. the Europe vs. Facebook's campaign summary of what'...
Richard Buchanan, a freelance ad creative, says that people are effectively working for free to create wealth for Facebook's shareholders. Buchanan wants someone – the Guardian, perhaps – to calculate the value of each Facebook user, based on how much
First, an artificial-intelligence facilitated conversation tool called pol.is is distributed through Facebook ads and stakeholder networks; Then a public meeting is broadcast where scholars and officials respond to issues that emerged in the conversation;
Jess Scully: "Taiwan’s civic hackers were organized around a leaderless collective called g0v (pronounced “gov zero.”) Many believed in radical transparency, in throwing opaque processes open to the light, and in the idea that everyone who is affected by a decision should have a say in it.
The site is highly interactive, and includes an Alternative Media Global Project wiki, an OURMedia facebook, and various forums. In addition, one may learn how to upload information related to citizens' media research, advocacy, and legislation."
Collective Awareness Platforms. = Collective Awareness Platforms for Social Innovation and Sustainable Social Changes (CAPS) are ICT systems leveraging the emerging "network effect" by combining open online social media, distributed knowledge creation and data from real environments (Internet of Things), in order to create new forms of social ...
