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Gates Foundation Invests in 104 “Untried, Unproven” Ideas for Global Health | Xconomy
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is doling out smaller chunks of cash to spur bigger thinking. The world’s largest private foundation is announcing today it is awarding 104 grants to scientists—at $100,000 apiece—to support off-the-wall ideas that have potential to shake up the conventional wisdom in global health.
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Official google.org Blog: Information Poverty
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Today is Blog Action Day, an annual event that rallies blogs around the world to post about a common cause. This year's issue up for discussion is poverty, so we wanted to take a look at the relationship between access to information and social and economic development.
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Google.org’s role, through our partners in East Africa and India, is to support, catalyze, and widely disseminate this kind of information to public, private, and civil society stakeholders that can use it to see more clearly what’s working, what’s broken and what are potential solutions. Leveraging platforms like Google Earth and Google Maps can help organizations disseminate their content widely and let people see and understand what was once invisible. Once information is visible, widely known, and easy to understand, we are betting that governments and citizens will pay more attention to leakages in the service delivery pipeline and feel empowered to propose solutions.
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A survey of corporate IT: IT's global “cloud” | Let it rise | The Economist
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In the years to come companies are likely to venture much farther. For one, operators of computing clouds such as Amazon and Google have shown that this is a far more efficient way of running IT systems. Secondly, many firms will find they have no choice. The way in which their IT infrastructure has grown is proving unsustainable. Most corporate data centres today are complex warrens of underused hardware that require more and more people, space and power to keep them going. The current economic malaise will increase the pressure on companies to become more efficient. More has to be done with less, which is cloud computing’s main promise.
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Financial Aspect of Google’s Environmental Goals Grows - NYTimes.com
"If we make those investments,” Mr. Reicher said, “it would be largely from a profit motive rather than an impact motive."
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“The issue globally, and particularly in the U.S., is that renewable energy is hard to come by and is expensive,” said William E. Weihl, Google’s green energy director. “But as a competitive business, we can’t afford, anymore than anyone else, to say we are going to pay more.”
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"If we make those investments,” Mr. Reicher said, “it would be largely from a profit motive rather than an impact motive."
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Financial Aspect of Google’s Environmental Goals Grows - NYTimes.com
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To support its efforts, it has hired a growing number of engineers who are conducting research in renewable energy, former government energy officials, scientists and even a former NASA astronaut, whose hands-on experience with all sorts of electronic gadgets is being put to use to develop energy tools for consumers.
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“Google is in the lead in terms of human resources as well as money.”
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Google now says it is interested in developing technologies to support some of those upgrades, as well as other tools at the intersection of energy and information technology, like “smart” electrical meters.
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Official google.org Blog: BarCamp Africa in Silicon Valley
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- The need to focus on supporting entrepreneurship and business growth
- The importance of investing in local talent
- The opportunity to promote innovation as the key driver of industry growth and job creation
- The importance of helping strengthen connection to community for disadvantaged students with strong potential so that they do not lose roots (diaspora challenge)
- How giving back to the community provides girls who have received assistance (scholarship support, mentoring, etc.) with self-esteem, and the feeling that they can accomplish great things because of the experience of doing so
- The role of economic development that drives choice and support for women's empowerment
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- the founding of Reaspora.com, a web destination focused on resources, connections and support for African expatriates interested in re-connecting with the continent. The name for this website and the commitment to build it grew directly from connections made at BarCamp Africa
- the creation of SquibWib, a web-based educational platform that allows a mentor and a student in different places to meet online and read together, as if they were in the same room
- the establishment of Afridex, the first steps of a consolidator of pan-African tech content
- the launch of Kelele, an annual bloggers' conference that will move between African countries; the wide response to BarCamp Africa inspired a coalition of African bloggers to commit to this ongoing gathering
- the building of connections between Silicon Valley's community of not-for-profits focused on positive change in Africa; these groups have already begun to support one another at local gatherings and events.
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Official Google Blog: New chapter for Google Book Search
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While we've made tremendous progress with Book Search, today we've announced an agreement with a broad class of authors and publishers and with our library partners that advances Larry's and Sergey's original dream in ways Google never could have done alone.
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First, it will give readers digital access to millions of in-copyright books; second, it will create a new market for authors and publishers to sell their works; and third, it will further the efforts of our library partners to preserve and maintain their collections while making books more accessible to students, readers and academic researchers.
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The agreement also resolves lawsuits that were brought against Google in 2005 by a group of authors and publishers, along with the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers (AAP). -
This agreement enables people to preview up to 20% of the book.
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Hacking Education
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But a visit to wikipedia is all I need to refresh my mind and help my kids. Wikipedia is an amazing resource and yet the teachers in my kids' school deride it as "not reliable". Well I'll tell you this much, Wikipedia is more reliable than some of my kids' teachers.
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He told me about a teacher who runs one of his online CFA courses. This guy is a superstar. His courses are fun and engaging. Taking his course is like reading a great columnist or a wonderful book. You want to get back to it because its so engaging. These teachers can make a lot of money and they should. They are the best at what they do.
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Sir Ken Robinson gave an amazing talk at Ted on this topic.
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Web 2.0 Summit: Cloud Computing Smackdown -- Coud Computing -- InformationWeek
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VMwave's Martiz offered his version of the remark: "The Microsoft Azure announcement is a great effort by Ray [Ozzie] to turn an oil tanker."
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In otherwise, until the dust settles and issues of data portability, application portability, and data ownership get resolved to the satisfaction of necessarily risk-averse companies, you may have no choice but to pick a side.
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Zuckerberg’s Law of Information Sharing - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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“I would expect that next year, people will share twice as much information as they share this year, and next year, they will be sharing twice as much as they did the year before,” he said. “That means that people are using Facebook, and the applications and the ecosystem, more and more.”
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Call it Zuckerberg’s Law.
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How Obama’s Internet Campaign Changed Politics - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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“The campaign’s official stuff they created for YouTube was watched for 14.5 million hours,” Mr. Trippi said. “To buy 14.5 million hours on broadcast TV is $47 million.”
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These days, Mr. Newsom is “obsessed with Facebook.” It strengthens his connection with his constituents and their connection with the causes they care about, he said.
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That’s a good thing, Mr. Trippi said. “This medium demands authenticity, and television for the most part demanded fake. Authenticity is something politicians haven’t been used to.”
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(Mr. Obama just started a different site, Change.gov, on Thursday to keep in touch with people during the transition.)
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Al Gore and the Purpose-Driven Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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Mr. Gore called on President-elect Barack Obama to set a national goal of getting 100 percent of America’s electricity from renewable and non-carbon sources within a decade.
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The nation needs to build “an electronet,” a unified national smart grid, with high-voltage, low-loss underground wires that deliver renewable energy from the places that produce it — like the sunny Arizona deserts or the windy Dakota plains — to the cities where the majority of it is used. Such a grid would require a $400 billion investment upfront, but would pay off in just over three years, he said, because the nation spends $120 billion annually on costs from power outages blamed on the existing grid.
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Web 2.0 Summit: Jerry Yang says “It’s been a pretty amazing year” » VentureBeat
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a of selling to Microsoft was something we knew about,
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“Look, the idea of selling to Microsoft was something we knew about,” he said. “I don’t think it is a bad idea at all….At the right price. We were willing to sell the company.
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Yang said, “We were disappointed that [the government] didn’t understand how it was good for consumers.” He said he was disappointed Google pulled out too.
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I really thought that the government does not understand our industry. They have a definition of the market that is too narrow. But they’re the government.”
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He said that advertising on the web is still in its nascent stage. He says that one example is that in the future, there will be more niche channels in web sites that advertisers can target. A San Francisco newspaper can in the future sell more inventory on Yahoo that is San Francisco specific. Yang said that advertising are showing significant interest in these kinds of opportunities.
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Web 2.0 Summit: Google, Wikipedia's Tips On Thwarting Spam Abuse -- Web 2.0 Summit
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"It really takes a lot of work to keep all this clean," he said. Between 20% and 30% of edits are vandalism or vandalism repair, he added.
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Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing - O'Reilly Radar
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Monopoly issues aside, could you imagine such a company? We wouldn't be talking about a multi-billion dollar business like today's Microsoft or Google. We're talking about something that could feasibly dwarf them. We're potentially talking about a multi-trillion dollar company. Possibly the largest company to have ever existed.
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Tech guru Tim O'Reilly challenges next generation to get serious - Los Angeles Times
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Flush with money and opportunity following the post-dot-com resurgence, he says, some entrepreneurs have cocooned in a "reality bubble," insulated from poverty, disease, global warming and other problems that are gripping the planet. He argues that they should follow the model of some of the world's most successful technology companies, including Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp., which sprang from their founders' efforts to "work on stuff that matters."
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The Omidyar Network, created by EBay Inc. founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam, makes grants to and investments in worthy causes. Benentech.org, started by former rocket scientist Jim Fruchterman, creates software for human rights activists, environmentalists and people with disabilities.
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The Wildlife Conservation Network -- started by software engineer Charles Knowles, conservationist John Lukas and Akiko Yamazaki, wife of Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang -- uses technology and a venture capital model to help save endangered species.
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O'Reilly also singles out two other Web 2.0 stars for providing social benefit. Twitter, an instant digital communications service, has helped coordinate disaster response. YouTube, the video sharing website now owned by Google, has helped activists fight repressive regimes in other countries.
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Live blogging at the Web 2.0 Summit: The kickoff with Larry Brilliant of Google.org » VentureBeat
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The first has to do with getting the right information in the hands of governments around the world in terms of how their populations are faring. He noted, for instance, that many governments don’t know how many of their people are literate or what the quality of drinking water is. Google.org’s initiative, “Inform and Empower,” does surveys that fill in the gaps in data collection.
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Another initiative is “Predict and Prevent,” related to disease outbreaks. Brilliant noted that diseases, much like the HIV virus, can be detected and stopped if there is enough information gathered about people who get sick. The idea is to stop pandemics before they start. This mission, not surprisingly, fits with Google’s mission of organizing the world’s information. In these cases, Google.org will sometimes make investments that further Google’s own fortunes. But philanthropy isn’t the wedge to benefit the for-profit corporation, he said.
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The last initiative involves coming up with renewable energies that can be cheaper than coal, such as less than 3 cents per kilowatt hour, much less than typical solar costs today. Brilliant said that the group has invested more than $50 million in wind, thermal and solar companies. He considers this effort core to Google because the company uses a lot of electricity in its data centers and it doesn’t want to contribute to global warming.
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Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo!
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While this wasn't legally necessary, we thought it was the right thing to do because Google and Yahoo! have been successful in online advertising and we realized that any cooperation between us would attract attention.
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But we're not going to let the prospect of a lengthy legal battle distract us from our core mission. That would be like trying to drive down the road of innovation with the parking brake on. Google's continued success depends on staying focused on what we do best: creating useful products for our users and partners.
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Perspectives on Innovation » Blog Archive » The Age of Citizen Innovation
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This emergence of Citizen Innovators represents a shift from the few to the many. They stand ready to tackle problems big and small and are at the heart of an unstoppable movement that is recasting the role of the individual in society. This is an empowerment movement and represents the most democratic of ideas: that we as individuals have a necessary and vital role to play in shaping our world – and in some cases an obligation. We at InnoCentive are proud to be part of this movement and to be working with Citizen Innovators from every corner of the world and from every walk of life.
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Google: Money for Nothing and Your Spectrum for Free - GigaOM
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The FCC’s decision earlier this week to open up white space spectrum, the slivers of bandwidth between what’s being made available for the coming digital television stations, could eventually net the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant as much as $5 billion more a year.
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Google President and Co-founder Larry Page said today at the Wireless Communications Alliance conference in San Jose., Calif., that using those so-called white spaces for broadband could lead to 20 percent to 30 percent more revenue
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aking $5 Wi-Fi radio chips that talk on all bands and protocols would help the push for openness.
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