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The goal of YouBama is to democratize the election campaign process. All content is generated by citizens and voted on by citizens.
Think about it as the unofficial presidential campaign for Barack Obama. Voters can say what they want, how they want. Then they vote on the videos so the best ones rise to the top.
This site was created by two Stanford University students. We have no connection to the official Obama campaign. We have no sponsors or group affiliations. The site was built using open source software.
“Some folks have been asking me for the clear definition of the term Web 3.0.
Web 2.0 services are now the commoditized platform, not the final product. In a world where a social network, wiki, or social bookmarking service can be built for free and in an instant, what’s next?
Web 2.0 services like digg and YouTube evolve into Web 3.0 services with an additional layer of individual excellence and focus. As an example, funnyordie.com leverages all the standard YouTube Web 2.0 feature sets like syndication and social networking, while adding a layer of talent and trust to them. (more…)
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.
The film begins with Georg Cantor, the great mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of the 20th-century mathematics. He believed he was God’s messenger and was eventually driven insane trying to prove his theories of infinity. Ludwig Boltzmann’s struggle to prove the existence of atoms and probability eventually drove him to suicide. Kurt Gödel, the introverted confidant of Einstein, proved that there would always be problems which were outside human logic. His life ended in a sanatorium where he starved himself to death.
Finally, Alan Turing, the great Bletchley Park code breaker, father of computer science and homosexual, died trying to prove that some things are fundamentally unprovable. (more…)
A Digg user has leaked the location to a downloadable zip file of the Clean version of Kanye West’s forthcoming Graduation album. If you click on the post title, zShare.net simply allows users (2927 as of this post) to steal the album. I do not see how this is legal, but in this age of torrents and viral online spreading, I also cannot see how the music industry will be able to stop such practices, but as the Digg poster says, “Here it is boys and girls, Kanye West’s Graduation. It’s the full album, but the clean version. Enjoy!” Just makes you wonder what other content is hosted on zShare.net? Will a downloadable version of 50 Cent’s entire Curtis album be next…probably, if it’s not already out on the Net! With blogs blatantly disregarding copyright laws, will the RIAA and MPAA find a way towards the good graces of the public or will this practice change the business model of the music industry forever? We’ll just have to wait and see, but with iTunes and Wal-Mart selling DRM-free music soon, what will be the incentive to purchase a CD?
What is Streamy? Streamy is a web 2.0 site (currently in private beta) that “consolidates the important things happening in your online life into a meaningful, real-time experience.” Having just received my beta invite to this supposed “Digg Killer”, I had to see what all of the hype was about for myself. At its core, Streamy is an RSS based recommendation engine with a real time community–based on an internal instant messaging platform. If you added up Digg, Original Signal, IM, an RSS reader, and a slick AJAX interface, you would get Streamy. It is just that convergent of a networked news/reading platform. Seeing is ultimately believing.
