The hope and promise of technology to improve governance was on display at last week’s Personal Democracy Forum 2010. So too were the technologies created to make those hopes a reality. Some were not yet in beta, others had been in use for over a year; some had official presentations, others were mentioned as asides. Here is a rundown of the applications that were discussed.
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GoogleLabs launched Living Stories last year, as an experiment with content partners The Washington Post and The New York Times. While the experiment has now finished, Google has open-sourced the code it and made a Wordpress plug-in to boot.
The video explains the concept but for the skim readers, Living Stories, basically brings current events into a wider context by providing a background on a current news stories, by serving up related information about the event/issue, instead of traditional search which returns information mainly about the incident itself.
Living Stories was …
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