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... Souce: Dion Hinchcliffe 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...

Paper, Stone, Scissors, Platform,... One year on, an interesting repost from Dion Hinchcliffe in his Web 2.0 blog this morning on Google’s Open Social concept. As I understand it, Open Social opens the door (but see Dion’s caveats) to interoperability by delivering open APIs that  work across different social applications and...