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by kilps 16y ago
Take a look at the South African Bill of Rights - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_South_Africa_Ch... - it includes rights to education, health care, water, access to information and human dignity (which many of the other righ
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by kilps 16y ago
The author is right about PowerPoint wanting "to organize the talk" - does anyone know any presentation software which breaks from this?
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by kilps 16y ago
I had no idea about this before this article (I'm not American...) - incredible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment
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by kilps 16y ago
It's very different when you're at the game - the vuvuzelas near you are distinguishable and you can hear people singing. Obviously that's not ideal for watching it on tv - the vuvuzelas tend to drown everything else out when it's all recor
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by kilps 16y ago
I haven't really looked into it; but do open source contributors not have a problem with using a closed platform to manage their products?
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by kilps 16y ago
The way for Buzz to instantly gain credibility would be for Google to take the Diaspora route and open it up as a decentralised platform. What I've found interesting is that part of what seems to be making Buzz more engaging is how it is ti
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by kilps 16y ago
What have all the other video-calling capable phones been using thus far? Is there no existing standard?
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by kilps 16y ago
There is some info at http://www.siliconcape.com/ (Cape Town focused).
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by kilps 16y ago
As an aside; is there a web based email service/client comparable to gmail? More particularly is there one which handles conversation view as well as gmail does? Until there is then gmail has a bit of a monopoly on users like me who love th
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by kilps 16y ago
Sure - these are issues which need to be sorted out. But it's not the end of the world if the average user doesn't completely understand the system as long as it works.
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by kilps 16y ago
I sure hope not - decentralised social networking (whoever makes it) is the only logical way forward. Imagine email was controlled by one company.
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by kilps 16y ago
If it is true that it is impossible to create a video codec which doesn't infringe on existing patents then surely it is impossible for anybody to argue that there isn't something wrong with the patent system? My understanding is that the i
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by kilps 16y ago
Amongst all my friends Facebook is almost entirely the only communication tool save for cell phones. Any good alternatives which won't have the problems that Facebook does that I can work on switching them all to? Right now I'm waiting for
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by kilps 16y ago
I keep hearing this 'don't post it if you'd never want it public' mantra; but surely there should be a way for us to post thoughts/content to friends with an expectation that only they will ever be able to see it? The need to trust the pers
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by kilps 16y ago
My first thought on reading the title was that they don't want the content accessible from the iPad so that they could charge for an app. The other reasons discussed make sense (merits aside), but I still wonder.
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by kilps 16y ago
You want to be careful of plain old proportional representation. We have that here in South Africa and the result has been MPs who toe the party and line and have no ties to constituencies (I asked a couple of parties which MPs they assigne
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by kilps 16y ago
He does say that they have declined to purchase information in the past, which lends credibility to his claim.
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by kilps 16y ago
Sure - you'll need to take a bit of a wait and see approach, but personally I'm hesitant to build anything at this point. If I wanted to build something serious on it I'd be relying on you to stay in business... And when I suggest open sour
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by kilps 16y ago
Except how many developers want a random (to the user) shared login? I'm doubtful that logging into a non-Google site with a Google account or using Facebook Connect is yet a standard user experience. The way I see it, this could just confu
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by kilps 16y ago
The authentication functionality demoed in the screen cast is cool - but looking at the notebook app it seems that it is a Akshell branded system. Are you going to offer customisation of that?
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by kilps 16y ago
Cloning the core doesn't sound simple (even if it is). Making it easy to move away lowers the potential cost of using Akshell - I really don't want to be locked in. How about open sourcing whatever is needed to run an app on your own server
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by kilps 16y ago
That's why the article argues that Google should be releasing tools to make this development easier - a framework can deal with a lot of the inconsistencies between browsers.
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by kilps 16y ago
Your hotornot idea is great, so much potential to expand it... Might have just found a weekend project :)
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by kilps 16y ago
The correct solution for Android would be for Google to release UI guidelines (perhaps these exist, I don't know) - but don't stop developers from innovating and then letting the users decide what is best.
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by kilps 16y ago
The hate is because it doesn't make it right. You're just saying that it's not so bad.
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by kilps 16y ago
This article has the prices... (though I see that they are listed in the comments of your link)
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Fear of philanthropy (avert your eyes)(sethgodin.typepad.com)
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by kilps 16y ago
As others have said, the video tells me nothing so I look at the about page - the description sounds great but provides no incentive to sign-up. You need to get me interested in a topic straight off the home page, without having to register
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by kilps 16y ago
I'm still yet to see a convincing reason why those people could not have been brought out of poverty while there was freedom of speech at the same time.
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by kilps 16y ago
Richard Stallman's article ( http://bostonreview.net/BR35.2/stallman.php ) is definitely worth a read. But I have a problem with the solution that he proposes, that software should be peer-to-peer capable to allow for collaboration, because

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