World Bank Under Cybersiege In "Unprecedented Crisis" (8)
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JagsLive sends in a Fox News report on large-scale and possibly ongoing security breaches at the World Bank. "The World Bank Group's computer network — one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation — has been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, FOX News has learned. It is still not known how much information was stolen. But sources inside the bank confirm that servers in the ...
Comfort Dollars (30)
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Here's a great example of what we could easily call a "local currency" - that doesn't involve any of the bloody, anti-corporate revolution that detractors of this idea seem to think will attend any such effort. A great, tiny organic cafe in my town, Comfort, decided to expand to a second, larger location last year. The owner, John Halko, has been renovating the new space for a year, and - thanks to the credit crisis ...
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brizbane said:
This is really interesting. People contributing directly to what they're interested in, and thereby strengthening and growing their community.
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Jason said:
This is really cool, I'm very interested in community-based economies like this, and restaurant models specifically. Very nifty.
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Lerch said:
This is BEAUTIFUL and a GREAT idea!
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Czarski said:
Interesting story on local currency/lending. Reminds me of BerkShares (http://www.berkshares.org/), but with a capital-raising twist.
How to Connect Your Email Address to Your OpenID Account (49)
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OpenID is an excellent solution for establishing a single identity for all your online accounts, but many people haven’t even tried it yet. For some, the concept of using a URL address for a login ID instead of the traditional email address is still completely foreign. However, Email to ID could be what the doctor ordered and what these creatures of habits need. It could also be what OpenID needs in order to expedite wide-spread ...
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Alard said:
A first bright light on the horizon of the OpenId user experience ...
Tootsville Launches a New Virtual World for Children and Tweens (3)
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Tootsville is a new virtual world for children ages 6-14 that’s very similar to Disney’s online cash cows ToonTown and ClubPenguin (which they purchased for $700 million). The reference to Disney is important to note because monetization is obviously extremely important to Tootsville. This is evident by the fact that kids cannot really do many of the fun things the site has to offer without their parents ponying up some money on a monthly or ...
Computer-Generated Sarah Palin Interview (30)
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Here's a program that'll generate realistic Palin-style answers for different questions. Q: What is your foreign policy experience? I think if you ask that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the people of America are not fully satisfied with all the answers. It's going to be considered also. But again, it's got to put government and it's about putting government back on the verbiage that Senator McCain chose to use ...
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Nate said:
if you mess around with this note that it sometimes gets stuck on the : What is your foreign policy experience? question. If that happens just go back to the main website and try again..
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brizbane said:
This is so accurate it's uncanny.
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Chris said:
HA! Talking points, put on shuffle. Outstanding.
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Chimpadink said:
Greates thing EVER
SocialVibe Helps You Make a Difference With Sponsored Social Giving - Mashable (6)
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SocialVibe emerged six months ago as a new way to drive money to your favorite causes online. It combines the power of building an online network of like-minded people with corporate sponsorship. Using user-determined widgets and a click-through model similar to online advertising, SocialVibe gives you a way to passively generate a constant stream of interest and income for your cause. SocialVibe is a bit more involved than yesterday’s mashup of TwitterFeed and Social Actions. ...
Social Actions and TwitterFeed Mash Things Up for Social Change (7)
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My favorite mashup of the week is the new TwitterFeed and Social Actions mashup for social change. The mashup was built by TwitterFeed’s Mario Menti in collaboration with Social Actions and inspired by Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop Twitter application. What the Social Actions Twitter mashup does is make Twittering for a cause as easy as using TwitterFeed or Alltop. This brings us a huge step forward in the ways we can bring online efforts for social ...
How to Get a Show on Revision3 (6)
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One of the toughest things you can undertake as a content producer on the Internet is to try to build an audience up as a complete unknown. I know, I’ve had to do it a number of times for shows I’ve either produced or participated in. If you’re serious about making a successful and highly visible show, nothing is as disheartening as putting time and money into a show for twenty or thirty episodes over ...
Internal DHS Documents Detail Expansion of Power to Read and Copy Travelers' Papers | Electronic Frontier Foundation (3)
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San Francisco - Recently obtained documents show that last year the Department of Homeland Security quietly reversed a two-decades-old policy that restricted customs agents from reading and copying the personal papers carried by travelers, including U.S. citizens. The documents were made public today by the Asian Law Caucus (ALC) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which sued the government under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain policies governing the searches and questioning of travelers ...
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blogan said:
It just amazes me that popular OSes don't encrypt all data on the hard drive. This issue should be moot.
Print Your Own Money (23)
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Everyone seems to want to know about the economy these days, so we may as well go there. It's as great an example as any of a program that not only got out of control, but became so prevalent - so accepted - that we came to take it for granted. We think of the economy and its rules as given circumstances, when they are actually constructions. In brief, the money we use is just ...
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CKL said:
A good summary of The Good News, plus he name-checks Google Chrome. Rock!
What's Next in Online Advertising? (6)
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I recently attended OMMA Global in New York. The last OMMA event I attended, OMMA Global Hollywood was in February. I am blown away by the huge leap the industry has taken in that time. I recall walking out of the morning keynote back in February shaking my head, everyone was still clinging desperately to banner ads despite the fact that they weren’t performing well. There was talk of needing to create new metrics in ...
New "season" of web series is most mature yet | Web Scout | Los Angeles Times (1)
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For the last year or so, amid the angsty teenagers talking into their webcams and the skateboarding dogs, you could find professionally made Web series scattered around if you knew where to look, and when. But this month and next, there’s a critical mass approaching: Hollywood is bringing out what you might call the first “new season” of spiffy, corporate-backed Web series designed to be watched on your computer.
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The state of network TV delivered to your computer.
The glossy, sanitized new versions of fairy tales leave out what matters: the scary parts - The Boston Globe (1)
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Yet something important is lost when a child's introduction to fairy tales comes in such whitewashed form...
Every Inch of the Web Shall Be Monetized: AdCamo Introduces the Brandable Cursor (7)
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In addition to conventional text and banner ads, publishers can now make money on everything from in-line text ads (highlighting specific words that link to advertisers) to pop-up previews (i.e. – Snap). AdCamo, the online advertising platform for Web page backgrounds, has added yet another unique ad format to its mix: the cursor. While custom cursors are nothing new – you’ve probably noticed them on countless MySpace profiles – monetizing them is, and represents the ...
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Mashable said:
oh wow - interesting concept. I want to hate it, but...on entertainment sites it might actually work.
Play it Forward with Akoha (5)
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Fresh off the stage from TechCrunch50, Austin Hill from Akoha has released us all from our frieNDA requirements. You’ll recall that I hinted about this a few weeks back. Well now, I guess I can talk. Imagine a real world game (played in the open world, not your computer) where the prime goal is to do good things for others. Now, imagine that the game doesn’t stop when you perform your good deed, because in ...
Edge: WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? By Jonathan Haidt (28)
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...the second rule of moral psychology is that morality is not just about how we treat each other (as most liberals think); it is also about binding groups together, supporting essential institutions, and living in a sanctified and noble way. When Republicans say that Democrats "just don't get it," this is the "it" to which they refer.
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gtanuel said:
more insight
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brizbane said:
Interesting discussion of viewpoints and the definition of morality.
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John Tantalo said:
Fascinating analysis of the dimensions of human morality and their relationship to political identity.
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Mario Sundar said:
Where do religion and politics intersect? Morality! Read this article to find out more.
True Enough: the science, history and economics of self-deception (17)
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Farhad Manjoo's True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society is a breezy-but-engrossing look at the increased polarization of news in the 21st Century. Manjoo convincingly argues that our own capacity for selective perception (show two groups of partisans footage of a political debate and both will swear it was biased for the other side;
