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Tox *is part of a widespread effort to create secure online communication tools that are controlled not only by any one company, but by the world at large—a continued reaction to the Snowden revelations. This includes everything from Instant Messaging tools to email services. It’s too early to count on Tox to protect you from eavesdroppers and spies. Like so many other new tools, it’s still in the early stages of development and has yet to receive the scrutiny that other security tools (have). (more)

Web Components are a set of standards currently being produced by Google engineers as a W3C specification that allow for the creation of reusable widgets or components in web documents and web applications. The intention behind them is to bring component-based software engineering to the World Wide Web. The components model allows for encapsulation and interoperability of individual HTML elements. Support for Web Components is present in some WebKit-based browsers like Google Chrome and Opera and is in Mozilla FireFox (requires a manual configuration change). Microsoft's Internet Explorer has not implemented any Web Components specifications yet.[1] Backwards compatibility with older browsers is implemented using JavaScript-based Poly Fill-s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Components (more)

Silicon Com lists their "Agenda Setters" for the coming year. In order: Ray Ozzie; "the next generation"; Eric Schmidt; Rupert Murdoch; Steve Jobs; Nicholas Negroponte; Jimmy Wales; Ashley Highfield (BBC); Chad Hurley and Steven Chen (YouTube); Niklas Zennstrom (Skype); Jack Ma (AliBaba, chinese EBay); George Polk (Municipal Wifi); Meg Whitman (EBay); Philip Rosedale (Second Life); Jonathan Ive; Oh Yeon Ho (Oh My News); Jim Ginsburgh (BP self-sourced office tech support); Bob Young (Lulu); Lawrence Lessig; Dave Winer; James Murdoch (son of Rupert Murdoch, B Sky B); S Ramadorai (Off Shoring Ta Ta); Larry Page and Serge Brin; Craig Mundie (Microsoft); Ren Zhengfe (Huawei China networking hardware); JohnChambers (Cisco); Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake; Mitch Kapor; MattBross (British Telecom); Marc Benioff (SalesforceCom); Mike Lynch (Autonomy Search Engine); Michael H Jordan (EDS); PaulJacobs (Qualcomm); Ian Pratt (Xen); Stan Shih (Acer); Bruce Perens; Craig Newmark; Charles Dunstone (Carphone Warehouse); Gil Tene (Azul); Nandan Nilekani (Off Shoring InfoSys); Mark Linesch (Grid Computing); Pieter Geelen and PeterFransPauwels (Tom Tom GPS); Jeff Bezos; Paul Otellini (Intel); KevinRollins (Dell Computer); Jonathan Schwartz; Marc Willebeek Le Mair (3Com); Tim Berners Lee; Kevin Rose (Digg); Omid Kordestani (Google).

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) is a Chinese (China) E Commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals. It also provides electronic payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services. The group began in 1999 when Jack Ma founded the website Alibaba.com, a business-to-business portal to connect Chinese manufacturers with overseas buyers. In 2012, two of Alibaba’s portals handled 1.1 trillion yuan ($170 billion) in sales. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group

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Video Ad Network Video Egg has announced that it has agreed to acquire blogging pioneer SixApart, the company behind TypePad and Moveable Type. As part of the acquisition, both companies will drop their names and be renamed Say Media... In recent years though, SixApart has been more focused on its advertising business... SAY Media says that it will continue to support Moveable Type and TypePad, but forgive us if we’re skeptical that will last. The new entity is clearly focused on building out a new-age advertising network, not on building out a blogging platform to compete with Word Press or TumblR. (more)

Early Stage Start Up Equity Market financing (more)

Typically first Venture Capital-level round of funding for a Start Up. (more)

Snapchat is a photo messaging (Photo Sharing for Instant Messaging) application developed by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown,[3] then Stanford University students.[4][5][6] Using the application, users can take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to a controlled list of recipients. These sent photographs and videos are known as "Snaps". Users set a time limit for how long recipients can view their Snaps (as of April 2014, the range is from 1 to 10 seconds),[7] after which they will be hidden from the recipient's device and deleted from Snapchat's servers (Self Destruct). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat (more)

This could be (Maciej Ceglowski survey here) (more)

Open Stack is a free and open-source cloud computing software platform.[2] Users primarily deploy it as an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution. The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects that control pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center—which users manage through a web-based dashboard, command-line tools, or a RESTful API. Open Stack.org released it under the terms of the Apache License. Open Stack began in 2010 as a joint project of RackSpace Hosting and NASA. Currently, it is managed by the Open Stack Foundation. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open Stack>

Chris Dent, gone from Tiddly Space, is working on a new WikiEngine/WikiFarm called Tank. (TankWiki) (more)

another framing of IOS? (more)

how to use UNIX variants (more)

creator of The Sims, SimCity, Spore, etc. (more)

The meerkat or suricate (Suricata suricatta) is a small carnivoran belonging to the mongoose family (Herpestidae). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerkat (more)

Bill De Hora on protocol-oriented Application Integration. (Web Services, MOM, SOAP, ReST, etc.) You also need guerilla development approaches, not only because of the time factors, but because services and cross business integrations quickly dispatch any quaint notions of "staging" and "rollout" you might have carried over from database backed websites or middleware.

The Science Leadership Academy is a partnership High School between the School District of Philadelphia and The Franklin Institute. SLA is an inquiry-driven, project-based high school focused on 21st century learning that opened its doors on September 7, 2006. https://www.scienceleadership.org/ (more)