Re:Not a real succesor or maemo/meego?
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Tizen Reaches 1.0
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Actually the Tizen OS runs a native API that gives apps access to accelerated graphics/UI and a lot more, here is the Photo Gallery app for example (youtube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixbMd7X0CYI
Or, let people specify their own sFTP or other hosted storage for themselves. Shared hosting is very cheap or free these days, so I suggest letting users set where data is stored.
No need to rely one a central database in this case, let people use their own storage. Make sense?http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1243923# - Dan Lundmark
If web content is readable and meaningful to me than it already has inherent meaning. Semantic tagging duplicates effort. Google shows us that machines can read content directly, just like people. I see no need to create separate 'machine readable' meta content alongside the normal content.
To point 3. - are you saying that UK depositors or savers (in a Building Society) are actively aware of the borrowers their money is lent out to? I doubt that. The idea with P2P is that it "cuts out the middleman".
Credit unions (and banks) pay interest to depositors or savers, but then usually charge a nice "middleman's" premium over that deposited money when they lend it out again.
"Peer to Peer financing has been around for decades. It is called a Credit Union."
Existing Credit unions are in fact quite different than these new P2P efforts; credit unions generally:
1. require membership (member of a trade union, church, etc),
2. are geograpically regional, and
3. don't require or enable any relationship between the lender and the borrower. (the credit union institution is the middleman.)
These new P2P internet internet lending ventures differ on all of these points. Have a look at http://www.kiva.org/ for an example of a startup that is already doing P2P direct lending across the globe. (of note: See their interesting dev blog as they scale up their site at http://kivachronicles.blogspot.com/ )
There are many organizations with roots in the Microfinance and Microcredit space ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcredit for a lot more info ) that have done similar things ( example: http://www.oikocredit.org/ ), with new ventures like Kiva and Prosper taking things to a whole new level on the web.
Both are great, but LastFM plays in Winamp and other players, while Pandora requires Flash in a webpage... so I prefer Lastfm.
Related: www.TubesMusic.com will soon let users do either one when it's available, so I've heard.
Another view - with photos this time.
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Marfa Lights Explained
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See the dev docs here https://developer.tizen.org/help/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.tizen.help.gs%2FPlatform+Overview.html
Or, let people specify their own sFTP or other hosted storage for themselves. Shared hosting is very cheap or free these days, so I suggest letting users set where data is stored. No need to rely one a central database in this case, let people use their own storage. Make sense?http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1243923# - Dan Lundmark
If web content is readable and meaningful to me than it already has inherent meaning. Semantic tagging duplicates effort. Google shows us that machines can read content directly, just like people. I see no need to create separate 'machine readable' meta content alongside the normal content.
To point 3. - are you saying that UK depositors or savers (in a Building Society) are actively aware of the borrowers their money is lent out to? I doubt that. The idea with P2P is that it "cuts out the middleman".
Credit unions (and banks) pay interest to depositors or savers, but then usually charge a nice "middleman's" premium over that deposited money when they lend it out again.
"Peer to Peer financing has been around for decades. It is called a Credit Union."
Existing Credit unions are in fact quite different than these new P2P efforts; credit unions generally:
1. require membership (member of a trade union, church, etc),
2. are geograpically regional, and
3. don't require or enable any relationship between the lender and the borrower. (the credit union institution is the middleman.)
These new P2P internet internet lending ventures differ on all of these points. Have a look at http://www.kiva.org/ for an example of a startup that is already doing P2P direct lending across the globe. (of note: See their interesting dev blog as they scale up their site at http://kivachronicles.blogspot.com/ )
There are many organizations with roots in the Microfinance and Microcredit space ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcredit for a lot more info ) that have done similar things ( example: http://www.oikocredit.org/ ), with new ventures like Kiva and Prosper taking things to a whole new level on the web.
Definitely not new.
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I've been participating in http://www.shouldexist.org/ for years...
"ShouldExist.org: Idea exchange, news of the future."
another comprehensive approach (almost like a dev wiki and CVS for offline ideas) is at http://www.thinkcycle.org/
"ThinkCycle provides a shared online space for designers, engineers, domain experts and stakeholders to discuss, exchange and construct ideas
Both are great, but LastFM plays in Winamp and other players, while Pandora requires Flash in a webpage... so I prefer Lastfm. Related: www.TubesMusic.com will soon let users do either one when it's available, so I've heard.
Photos and one blogger's experience of the Marfa Lights.- lights.html
http://westtexasnights.blogspot.com/2005/03/marfa