Politics OpenCongress: Congress Tracking Made Easy and Fun If you've been waiting to see all the standard Web 2.0 site features put to a socially significant use - wait no longer, check out OpenCongress.org. This beautifully designed site makes it far easier and more fun to track activities in the US congress than it's ever been since the organization was formed. A project of the Participatory Politics… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Analysis Students: The New Hiring Frontier Online, for Good and Evil The British government is telling press that there is a growing trend in online organized crime rings hiring college students to do their dirty work and solve difficult technical problems - often under pretense that the work is legal security consulting. Here at RWW we're seeing, even participating in, a related trend of hiring college students… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features Our Kids Are Failing - And It's All Wikipedia's Fault! Talk about a knee-jerk reaction. Yesterday, news broke out in Scotland about how the internet was to blame for Scotland's failing exam pass rates. According to the Scottish Parent Teacher Council (SPTC), Wikipedia, among other sources, was cited as the reason as to why the students were failing. Is this a case of the internet making us stupid? Or… Sarah Perez View comments
Google Setbacks for Google's Android The first phones using Google's Android platform were meant to go to market by the second half of this year. According to the Wall Street Journal, however, Google is facing some major setbacks thanks to the intricacies of the cell phone business. Frederic Lardinois View comments
Facebook Facebook Targets Chinese Market Social networking site Facebook has launched a Chinese-language version of its web site. Users logging into the site from the Chinese mainland are now being redirected to zh-cn.facebook.com, where users can choose between a version in simplified or traditional Chinese. Social Frederic Lardinois View comments