George C. Dimitriou, Consulting Services
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White House Goes Open Source.
on Oct 26, 2009 in Digital World Trends The White House Web team decided to go with open source software for www.whitehouse.gov “We now have a technology platform to get more and more voices on the site,” announced White House new media director Macon Phillips to the Associat...
Social Networking Stats.
on Oct 23, 2009 in Digital World Here you have a list of social networking stats (including Twitter) collected by Charlene Li, who maintains a focus on Leadership Strategy and Jeremiah Owyang, who maintains a focus on Customer Strategy. Together, they are covering the convergen...
EU Gives Free Online Access to its Archives.
on Oct 19, 2009 in Digital World The EU on Sunday (18 October) used the book fair in Frankfurt to launch its online digital library of official documents issued in the last 50 years. The EU’s digital bookshop puts more than 12 million scanned pages online, to be downloaded for fre...
Broadband Study Says “Open Access” Fosters Competition.
on Oct 15, 2009 in Digital World Open access policies have helped leading industrialized nations develop more competitive broadband markets by lowering entry barriers, according to a study commissioned by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The study examines global broadban...
1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right in Finland.
on Oct 15, 2009 in Digital World Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a 1Mb broadband connection, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Finland is the world’s first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access. The government ha...
LinkedIn: 50 million professionals worldwide.
on Oct 15, 2009 in Digital World Trends As of yesterday, LinkedIn has 50 million users worldwide and they are growing that figure at roughly one new member per second. When LinkedIn launched in 2003, it took 477 days — almost a year and four months — to reach the first million member...