Data Portability Cliqset Transforms Social Media Feeds Into Standardized, Real-Time Data Social media aggregator Cliqset today announced a new beta version of its platform that aggregates activity feeds from 70 different social media sites, transforms them into normalized Activity Streams standard data and then pushes them out in real time. The company's offers multiple ways to access the data through its API but also hopes that… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
NYT City of Portland, Oregon Officially Backs Open, Structured Data The City Council of Portland, Oregon unanimously approved a resolution today that directs the city government to open data to outside developers and encourages adoption of open source solutions in technology procurement. Like the creation of railroads and highways fostered economic development in the past, giving software developers access to… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Startups Lunch's Twitter List: Recommendations With Rationale After selling VirtualTourist to Expedia, J.R. Johnson launched Lunch to encourage intelligent content and critical dialogue. Today, in expanding his mission for meaningful engagement, Johnson is launching Twitter Lists. This new service asks users to rationalize their Twitter recommendations. While services like Dana Oshiro View comments
News US Department of Commerce Loosens Grip on ICANN ICANN, the not-for-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that has managed domain names on the Internet since 1998, just announced that it has reached a new deal with the US Department of Commerce that will allow it to operate as a more independent entity. Other governments and the private sector will now have a greater say in… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Apple Mobile Web: BlackBerry Leads Apple in World's Third-Largest Mobile Market InMobi, which is the largest mobile ad network in Asia, Africa, and Indonesia, just released some interesting data regarding mobile web usage which shows that RIM's BlackBerry is leading the pack ahead of Apple's iPhone in Indonesia. Indonesia is one of the world's fastest growing mobile consumer markets and will become the third largest mobile… Mobile Frederic Lardinois View comments