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Nick Black, Common Enterprise: Building a Business on Free Data, is involved with OpenStreet made and his company Cloudmade, that is trying to figure out if it’s possible to build business on top of it.
He starts with a point – nothing is free. Most free data has a cost, there are costs associated. [...]

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Here are my notes from tonight’s Web Standards Group London Meetup, the topic was Findability.
It’s a big subject, so he’s going to focus mostly on theoretical aspect. The topic of findability has been very well research by Peter Morville (semanticstudios.com) – Ambient Findability book
“Finding” and what it means.
Dictionary:

Discover or perceive by chance o unexpectedly
Discover after [...]

Having a nice white Google homepage in your browser is somehow reassuring as you know that you just have to start typing in order to lookup the data in the the metaverse.
This all changed when your favorite search engine turned their lights off in order to promote Earth Hour, their initiative to remind us to [...]

Getting a CrackBerry was my latest step in showing total devotion to my employers big ideas about changing they way people blog. Since we use Google Apps for part of our intranet solution I thought it would be nice to integrate this gadget with their servers. Sadly this made my already bad initial experience with [...]