whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...different about Microsoft converting their popularity into a monopoly \"rent\" situation from Facebook or Google doing the same thing? Net Neutrality, aimed as it is at a few incumbents, creates as...

2. Prediction Markets for the Poor
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... software product wouldn’t ship on time despite assurances from their more mainstream consultants. Google and Microsoft also use such tools to allow their employees to voice their opinions. H...

3. Scrogues Converse: Open-space, Identity and the Missing Web
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...ds, like all the Web 2.0 platforms, seem a step backwards rather than a step forwards. Try and imagine if Google declared that henceforth Gmail subscribers could only email other Gmail subscribers? T...

4. The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
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...cracy, is doing its own bit to undermine freedom and democracy. Yahoo hands over journalists and sources. Google censors information that offends governments. Cisco sells specialised equipment that al...

5. Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
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... understand the rules for success on that new platform.” Web 2.0 has more to do with the success of Google than with anything else.  And Google’s success depends on Adwords. The Inter...

6. The Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia and Lessons in Globalisation
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...; While Wikia, another component of Wikimedia, hosts advertising and makes a small amount of revenue from Google Adverts, Wikipedia will remain advert free.  "Every other week some major com...

7. The lack of feedback and accountability is fatal to aid effectiveness
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For the past two months my significant other has been working 18-hour days at DISA Vascular, where she is Quality Assurance manager.  This weekend auditors fly out from Germany to evaluate their

8. The poor have never had it so good ... now what?
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...petition.  The Global Fund has $ 6.8 billion.  The Gates Foundation has $ 31.9 billion.  Google has chipped in with $ 90 million in their foundation.  Even the US government, so...