More people are not only using Facebook but becoming actively involved reading, engaging, and voicing opinions over user policy changes daily.  The level of participation has exponentially grown and often Facebook has taken into account the thoughts of its users, like a true democracy, and adjusted settings as necesMore people are not only using Facebook but becoming actively involved reading, engaging, More»

The Great American Hackathon from Sunlight Labs is coming December 12-13. Unlike most API-hacking events, this one is taking place all over the United States, in at least seven cities. The idea is to encourage More»

Now you can use an API to find out once and for all whether you are among the living. The U.S. Social Security Administration maintains a “death index” to prevent fraud. CDYNE Corporation subscribes More»

The New York Times has announced that its increasingly popular Congress API has been upgraded to include additional features and data (more at our Congress API Profile). The latest version of the Congress More»

The US government isn’t just opening its data, it’s now creating mashups. The Department of State is tracking Secratary Hillary Clinton’s world travel using the Google Maps API. Clinton’s More»

Last week saw a wave of developments in the opening of government data, coinciding with the Personal Democracy Forum in New York. The new CIO of the country, Vivek Kundra, announced a site called the More»

The much-anticipated US government catalog of government agency web sites who offer structured data, Data.gov, has gone live. It’s a first cut at what should grow into a very useful index of a vast More»

InternetNews.com’s Kenneth Corbin recently wrote about the National Association of State CIOs conference, where White House science and technology adviser Beth Noveck spoke to attendees about opening More»

On February 19, 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed into law, putting into effect the $787 billion economic stimulus package to pull the American economy out of a severe More»

As we previously reported in December 2008,  the Apps for America contest was created to encourage the development of open source applications that help constituents monitor and communicate with their More»

The tagline of the Times Open blog is “All the news that’s fit to printf()”, and that clever play on the paper’s motto gains more credence with each new API released. In February More»

Building on Barack Obama’s push for a transformational process for the Federal Government, momentum is building in terms of how citizens view the government’s role as a data steward and data More»

It's easy to see governments as nameless, faceless monoliths, something impersonal or, even worse, untrustworthy. Much of that is because government culture remains steeped in traditional ideas about public More»