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I accidentally bumped into this site whose purpose is “crowd-sourcing crisis information”. (Sorry; bad metaphor.) Initial deployments still in alpha, but should be interesting to follow in the coming months, especially in light of the value demonstrated by the Twitter platform during the recent siege in Mumbai.
Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)

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Business Week attributes an increased interest in Open Source software to the shrinking economy.
ReadWriteWeb cites a report conducted by Accenture that millenials (i.e. those born between ‘77 and ‘97) will ignore IT departments that don’t support their IT preferences and applications. That is to say, many emerging social apps like Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and wikis, [...]

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