Monthly Archive for July, 2009
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Project website for Vanish: "Vanish is a research system designed to give users control over the lifetime of personal data stored on the web or in the cloud. Specifically, all copies of Vanish encrypted data — even archived or cached copies — will become permanently unreadable at a specific time, without any action on the part of the user or any third party or centralized service."
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Article on U. of Washington prototype that uses a peer-to-peer encryption technique that makes messages disappear over time.
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iBiblio is one of the founding members, from the press release: "Today, a broad cross-section of more than 70 companies, academic institutions, communities, related groups and individuals joined together to announce the formation of Open Source for America, an organization that will serve as a unified voice for the promotion of open source software in the U.S. Federal Government arena. To register or learn more about the coalition, visit www.opensourceforamerica.org."
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"-> Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads -> Appearance in Facebook Ads and click "no one." Unless, of course, you want to be semifamous and have your picture used to push some garbage product or website without your knowledge."
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"Remember my blog post NextBio Elsevier Partnership telling you that Elsevier was going to use NextBio technology to enhance ScienceDirect? Well, the updated version of ScienceDirect went live yesterday and now you can see the enhancements for yourself! "
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Cool reference idea from a local Ruby developer. "Why? I've got Google and Wikipedia, who cares?
Because we believe the world is not flat. There are many countries with many people who have different cultures, interests, sports, religions, views, values, jobs and hobbies."
Michael Habib
