Posted by on under gross national happiness, status updates, millis, dataset, prototype, citizens, developers, united states | 
With over 300 million users and 40 million daily status updates, Facebook has an immense amount of data that could potentially be used to gauge any number of things, from the hottest up-and-coming bands to the most discussed political issues. Earlier this week some of the site's engineers decided to use this dataset to measure something a bit more fundamental: happiness. Dubbed
Gross National Happiness, this new
prototype application does its best to determine if Facebook users in the United States are happy or sad. Here's how the application's developers describe it:
...Grouped together, the status updates of millions of Facebook users from every demographic in the nation can work together to say something about how we as a nation are doing. Measuring how well-off, happy or satisfied with life the citizens of a nation are is part of the Gross National Happiness movement.
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Posted by on under civil liberties, bush administration, patriot act, immunity, senators, scope, legislation, citizens, united states |
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Posted by on under home improvement company, empire carpet, chicago area, carpeting, flooring, united states |
Empire Today, or also known quite well as Empire Carpet, is one of the most recognized home improvement brands in the United States. Empire Today was founded in 1959 in the Chicago area as a next day flooring and carpeting company which specializes in in-home sales and demonstrations, then sends out their installation crew the [...]
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Posted by on under primary legal materials, open source effort, public resource, o reilly, resource org, technical specs, raw materials, repository, operating system, federal government, democracy, radar, united states |
Rubinstien writes "O'Reilly Radar is reporting on an effort to produce Law.gov, 'America's Operating System, Open Source.' The group Public.Resource.Org seeks to 'create a solid business plan, technical specs, and enabling legislation for the federal government to create Law.gov. [They] envision Law.gov as a distributed, open source, authenticated registry and repository of all primary legal materials in the United States.' According to its new website, 'Law.gov would be similar to Data.gov, providing bulk data and feeds to commercial, non-commercial, and governmental organizations wishing to build web sites, operate legal information services, or otherwise use the raw materials of our democracy.'"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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