Google Research awards winter deadline 1st February

by Ed ParsonsThoughtsPosted on One Comment

Every year Google accepts research proposals for small grants awarded to researchers at academic institutions working on projects which in general terms improve access to information. Google funds Research Awards with very few restrictions and retains no intellectual property from the research itself, indeed there is an expectation that results from the research are open sourced and widely published. Geospatial …

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My Think2011 presentation

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Hopefully the first Google annual event in Amsterdam, my topic was the trend towards egocentric maps and LBS apps. Written and submitted from the BA Lounge, Schiphol (52.309N, 4.775E)

Cultural differences..

by Ed ParsonsAndroid, ThoughtsPosted on 2 Comments

This one very rare tweet from Andy Rubin, lead on the Android Programme at Google in 140 characters perfectly embodies the open and geeky culture at Google. This is of course not always initially a great advantage when building consumer facing products, for my non geeks readers “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git …

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The Open Government Licence

by Ed ParsonsData Policy, ThoughtsPosted on One Comment

Last week in addition to the new more open OS licesning, another in many ways more fundamental new license was introduced with little fanfare, but I would argue it’s impact if widely adopted could be far more important. The new UK Open Government licence (OGL) developed by the National Archives, is a robust licence developed using Creative Commons like …

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