links for 2010-03-30

• Top 10 Open-Source Platforms to Build Your Own Social Network | Dzine Blog
  (tags: socialnetworking opensource platform)
• The State of the Internet Operating System – O'Reilly Radar
  Now, a new flood of government data is being released, and the government is starting to see itself as a platform provider, providing facilities for private sector third parties to build applications. This idea of Government as a Platform is a key focus of my advocacy about Government 2.0.

  There is huge opportunity to apply the lessons of Web 2.0 and apply them to government data. Take health care as an example. How might we improve our healthcare system if Medicare provided a feedback loop about costs and outcomes analogous to the one that Google built for search keyword advertising.

  Anyone building internet data applications would be foolish to underestimate the role that government is going to play in this unfolding story, both as provider and consumer of data web services, and also as regulator in key areas like privacy, access, and interstate commerce.

  (tags: internet web2.0 government2.0 cloud data regulatory)

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