On Civil Society, APIs and Privacy

Noteworthy contrasts both sides of the pond re freedom and privacy. In America, Venture Beat reports on the New York Times and an API that opens up data from Congress which, allows developers to access data about which congresspeople represent which districts, and how they voted on specific issues. This is...

Cloudy thinking & clever data

I find the following worthy of a scribble so I don’t forget, Amazon’s use of APIs is making its network traffic rocket  Microsoft has lost a top data center nerd to Amazon Amazon has launched an elastic cloud Amazon is building a giant new datacenter near a big dam Google already has...