About: Chris

Following the soft-launch of OpenOttawa.org last week (full launch to follow with more volunteers onboard and FixIt Ottawa), I’ve posted on the Mayor’s Taskforce on eGovernment report site regarding open access to public data. Locking away data that is created with public monies behind individual access requests, dissemination fees is no way to encourage aContinue Reading

DemoCamp 7 takes place tonight from 7:00 – 9:00 at the Clocktower Brew Pub on Bank St. I’ll be there tonight checking out what looks to be some exciting demos from Ottawa’s tech community. The last DemoCamp I was at (6) was pretty good, so I’m looking forward to this one.

It’s been 3 months since the Mayor’s speech on enabling a “Business 2.0″approach to online serices the City provides (I hope he wasn’t thinking this Business 2.0 approach). Regardless, what the City needs to do is expose the underlying data in formats that are easy to build upon to enable this approach. Starting with theseContinue Reading

I’m not sure how recently this happened (it wasn’t there yesterday), but the Google Reader team has pushed out a new favicon for Google Reader: Old: New: I like the old one better, but I guess its not as close to the standard RSS icons.

Given that Zuckerburg has already indicated that they want to continue to open up Facebook, I think we can expect Facebook to rollout support for OpenSocial API calls in addition to their existing methods very shortly. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/177470827/ Powered by ScribeFire.