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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources.

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Your Netflix alternative is here, and it’s only $15 for life

Mashable Tech

You’ll use a far more user-friendly interface to plug in a channel, genre, actor, or a specific movie or TV show you have in mind, then this content aggregator scours the web to find it. BitMar is fully compliant with copyright laws — and it’s simply locating content already available on the web. Is it legal?

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Great reads from around the web on May 9th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Blackbaud paid an aggregate purchase price of approximately $325 million. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of May 9th).

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Interview: Marshall Kirkpatrick on the Real Time Web Report

Amy Sample Ward

The Real-Time Web and Its Future , a new report from ReadWriteWeb , focused on the changing ecosystem of the Web, one that runs in real-time. “For the following report, we interviewed 50 companies, developers and executives building or leveraging real-time Web technology. When did RWW start focusing on the real-time Web?

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Marginal gains: How making 1 percent improvements on tiny things adds up

The Next Web

Brailsford believed in a concept that he referred to as the “aggregation of marginal gains.” This story continues at The Next Web. The post Marginal gains: How making 1 percent improvements on tiny things adds up appeared first on The Next Web. His approach was simple. He explained it as “the 1 percent margin for.

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What does aggregation theory tell us about Google’s antitrust case?

The Verge

Google currently runs the most popular search engine, the most popular web browser, and the most popular mobile operating system (on a worldwide basis, at least). The best answer we have is Aggregation Theory , a term coined and developed by Stratechery’s Ben Thompson. How did these companies get so powerful so fast?

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Great reads from around the web on June 13th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. fact that I can often be found laying in bed at 6am and digging through client web reports. No wonder than, I am commonly asked; “What are the top web analytics reports and tools every nonprofit should know?&#."

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