Roundup: Microsoft’s team-up with Verizon, Wolfram/Alpha’s demo, and more
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Are Microsoft and Verizon teaming up on an iPhone rival? — That partnership may be the real source of rumors about negotiations between Verizon and Apple, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Stephen Wolfram demos Wolfram/Alpha search engine — Larry Dignan of ZDNet says the “computational knowledge engine” (a search engine that understands your questions and computes the correct answer, rather than just digging up relevant web pages based on keywords) probably isn’t a Google… Continue Reading
Can a wiki change Congress?
Change Congress, the political reform website from Stanford Law Prof. Lawrence Lessig and Democratic campaign consultant Joe Trippi, has gone live. The site’s functionality is pretty limited right now, but over the next few months new features will leverage a wiki format to rally support for pro-reform congressional candidates.
Lessig outlines his goals in an article written for the Huffington Post: the refusal of contributions from Political Action Committees or lobbyists, abolition of legislative “earmarks”, support… Continue Reading
Lessig talks about running for Congress (maybe)
Internet activist and Stanford Law Prof. Lawrence Lessig is considering a run for Congress, a decision he discussed with VentureBeat today.
Lessig made a name for himself through his involvement in the “free culture” movement, which criticizes overly restrictive copyright laws. He literally wrote the book on the subject, Free Culture, which was one of the first things that got me interested in technology and the impact it can have on social change.
Last June he switched… Continue Reading