Photo by vic15 The time of year-end reviews and top 10 lists is now upon us, so I’m compiling the details of a watershed year for open data and civic hacking in two cities where I’ve seen huge leaps made in 2011 – Philadelphia and Baltimore . In this first installment, I’ll focus on the “City of…

I was reading blogs from bed in the wee hours this morning, alternately as a way to entertain myself without having to leave the comfort of my pillow and as a way to stop myself from beating Onion, the cat who cannot, will not, and won't stop scratching at our door in the morning to get some of our…

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Everybody talks about it. Nobody does it. If I’ve learned anything about the world by my age, it’s that most of the world, myself included, is composed of talkers, not doers. There are very few exceptions to this rule. The good news is, you can be one if you want. The ability to act is not something…

May 21, 2012 1:49 p.m. Updated By Email Print Entrepreneurship Jobs/Career Manoj Bhargava How did an idea turn into a product with $1 billion in annual sales? Avoiding useless meetings, internal reports and other corporate-oriented decisions that can slow things down, said Manoj Bhargava, the…

Government Digital Service Design Principles Listed below are our design principles and examples of how we’ve used them so far. These build on, and add to, our original 7 digital principles . Start with needs* *user needs not government needs Service design starts with identifying user needs. If you…

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It started because I wanted to see girls naked. I had glasses, braces, acne, was the worst kid in gym class, had crazy hair, and liked science fiction. And I was 12. But through research in libraries, bookstores, random ads in the back of magazines at the local pharmacy, I knew there was one…

A virulent monster is dangerously out of control. Let us slay it together PRICE inflation remains relatively subdued in the rich world, even though central banks are busily printing money. But other types of inflation are rampant. This “panflation” needs to be recognised for the plague it has…

Rick Marini on Branchout’s New Round of Funding BranchOut is officially going for the big time. The company, which makes a professional social network that runs on top of Facebook, is announcing today it has closed on $25 million in new funding, bringing its total venture capital investment to $49…

After five years pursuing the social-local-mobile dream, we need a fresh paradigm for technology startups. Finnish teenagers performing digital ennui in 1996 2006. Reuters. We're there. The future that visionaries imagined in the late 1990s of phones in our pockets and high-speed Internet in the…

Analytical approaches work well when you have a pretty good understanding of the product you are developing or when you are dealing with a well defined problem. They generally involve a relatively linear set of steps. First you seek to define a clear objective based on the best available…