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Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service

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Stamen Design jointly released a project they have been working on together called Polymaps. They’ve released the Polymaps source code on GitHub so any developer can quickly see how the API is used, play around with real production code, and modify the base examples for their own use. Last week SimpleGeo and their partner ?

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How To Predict The Future

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Open source and crowdsourcing principles are well understood: When you get enough talented people working on a problem, especially in an open way, progress comes quickly. I wrote an article for the IEEE Spectrum called The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence is Open. Then AI will really take off. (If

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Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers

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While they like sites like Stack Overflow and Github’s wiki pages on different open source projects, Nate and Natty never found a great site on the web that has comprehensive documentation on how to program. For design, they went with SpeckyBoy and Smashing Magazine.

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The Future of Transportation

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The barrier to flying cars is not in the design or building of a viable airframe. Companies like Chris Anderson’s 3D Robotics have built, along with the open source community, the ArduPilot, a sub-$500 autopilot for unmanned drones. By 2030 or slightly earlier, all vehicles should be fully autonomous.

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Standing Cloud Closes $3m Financing, Launches Partner Program

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There are a huge number of solution providers out in the world who are specialists in any of the more than 70 open-source apps that Standing Cloud supports. And if you want to see how easy it is to set up any of over 70 open source apps in under five minutes, just select an app and click on “Use It Now.&#.

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Boulder Is For Robots

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The bay area was indeed the place to be at the time with the Homebrew Computer Club and marketing genius Steve Jobs who convinced Wozniak to sell his design, laying the foundation for Apple.