countryman media » social media http://www.countryman.co.za open source software, open development, new economics Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:41:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Convening Community through Stories http://www.countryman.co.za/internet/convening-community-through-stories/ http://www.countryman.co.za/internet/convening-community-through-stories/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:38:31 +0000 mark herringer http://www.countryman.co.za/?p=241

]]> http://www.countryman.co.za/internet/convening-community-through-stories/feed/ 0 OSM 2008: A Year of Edits http://www.countryman.co.za/open-source/osm-2008-a-year-of-edits/ http://www.countryman.co.za/open-source/osm-2008-a-year-of-edits/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:12:30 +0000 mark herringer http://www.countryman.co.za/?p=162

OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

]]> http://www.countryman.co.za/open-source/osm-2008-a-year-of-edits/feed/ 0 Sharing data to improve social business http://www.countryman.co.za/economics/sharing-data-to-improve-social-business/ http://www.countryman.co.za/economics/sharing-data-to-improve-social-business/#comments Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:01:29 +0000 mark herringer http://www.countryman.co.za/?p=159 I’ve recently started following the database technology called FluidDB. FluidDB is an openly writeable shared database.

Data can be dynamically organised, shared, combined, augmented and searched.

FluidDB is conceptually simple:

Objects represent things Tags describe data related to an object (and can optionally have a value) Namespaces organise related tags Permissions control who can act on what namespace, tag or value

This makes [...]]]> http://www.countryman.co.za/economics/sharing-data-to-improve-social-business/feed/ 0 How texting and GoogleMaps helped Kenyans survive crisis: Erik Hersman on TED.com http://www.countryman.co.za/socialmedia/55/ http://www.countryman.co.za/socialmedia/55/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:20:45 +0000 mark herringer http://www.countryman.co.za/?p=55 ‘At TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell phone texts following the 2008 elections, and has evolved to continue saving lives in other countries during the crucial first three hours of any crisis.’ – TED Talks

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