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Best Practices for App Developers at Seattle’s Privacy Identity Innovation Conferenc...

Best Practices for App Developers at Seattle’s Privacy Identity Innovation Conference
Every company and organization involved in the digital economy is, in one way or another, in the business of building trust with users. While there are big challenges associated with managing and securing the vast amounts of data being...

Come to the Vibrant Data PDX Hackathon! Saturday, June 2, 2012 from 8:30am–8pm

Come to the Vibrant Data PDX Hackathon! Saturday, June 2, 2012 from 8:30am–8pm
Imagine a world in which data becomes a personal asset that works on behalf of our personal interests and communities. Everyday, apps like yours could control how to send their data out into the world to circulate and bring back value to users....

I’ll be Keynoting SXSW 2012 in Austin, Texas on March 11th, 2012 from 2–3pm CST!

I’ll be Keynoting SXSW 2012 in Austin, Texas on March 11th, 2012 from 2–3pm CST!
I’m excited to announce that I was offered a keynote speech at this year’s SXSW conference in Austin, Texas! I’ll be doing an extended version of a talk on cyborg anthropology and the future of the interface, and will then go...

Come to Random Hacks of Kindness! Portland, OR – Dec. 2-4, 2011

Come to Random Hacks of Kindness! Portland, OR – Dec. 2-4, 2011
What is Random Hacks of Kindness? Random Hacks of Kindness is a simultaneous global hackathon which addresses issues of disaster and humanitarian response. Local subject matter experts are brought in to guide the developers in relevant issues...

Geoloqi Open Data Hackathon at Upstart Labs Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 – Saturday, Nov. 1...

Geoloqi Open Data Hackathon at Upstart Labs Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 – Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011!
Come hack on open gov datasets and Geoloqi! We moved into an new office space! We’re sharing it with Upstart Labs, a great new company from the founders of StepChange group (recently acquired by Dachis Group). We’ll have food and...

Posting to Geographies and Subscribing to Interests on Twitter

Posting to Geographies and Subscribing to Interests on Twitter
Topics and Interests, Geographical Publishing, and Subscriptions I like Twitter, but not all of it. I like what people post on Twitter, but not all of it. I’d like to be able to filter out parts of what people talk about. I don’t...

Smallest Federated Wiki workshop with Ward Cunningham on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 at PIE

Smallest Federated Wiki workshop with Ward Cunningham on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 at PIE
About Interested in working with Ward Cunningham on his new wiki project? You can on Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at the Portland Incubator Experiment. Wiki-founder Ward Cunningham shared his idea of a Smallest Federated Wiki SFW during...
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Imagine a world in which data becomes a personal asset that works on behalf of our personal interests and communities. Everyday, apps like yours could control how to send their data out into the world to circulate and bring back value to users. Certainly this would require a change in the way the world views...
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Imagine a world in which data becomes a personal asset that works on behalf of our personal interests and communities. Everyday, apps like yours could control how to send their data out into the world to circulate and bring back value to users. Certainly this would require a change in the way the world views...
recent from Resources An Introduction to Ward Cunningham’s Smallest Federated Wiki
History Wiki-founder Ward Cunningham shared his idea of a Smallest Federated Wiki SFW during IndieWebCamp this June. In a few short weeks, he brought his idea to life and is inviting others to work with him on it! What is SFW? The Smallest Federated Wiki project wants to be small in the “easy to learn...
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Greetings! I’m taking a break from my usual blogging routine (and by routine I mean a post every month or so) to write a post every day this week for Wired Magazine’s Change Accelerators blog. It’s a practice round leading up to the release of A Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology. Let me...
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