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George Soros Blog

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 10/16/2004 - 03:10.

Fascinating to see a blog posted by the powerful George Soros - this designed to keep President Bush from being reelected - shows the lenghts to which this technology is being used by the world's most renowned people

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Skype for free VoIP

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 10/16/2004 - 02:37.

It is definitely worth trying out Skype - a free application to access their VoIP service and reach over a million other Skype users for free telephone calling over the Internet - anywhere in the world - free, fast, easy, and excellent call quality - Skype site and download here

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FDA Approves Use of Chip in Patients

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 10/13/2004 - 15:46.

Big Brother is watching, so NEOans may as well leverage our medical industry strengths to lead this field. Read the AP newsclip below and consider how this technology application offers opportunity here - networking, information technology, biotechnology, medical information systems, etc. .. no rocket science required

Cleveland last in Brown University city eGov analysis

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 10/12/2004 - 02:08.

From Brown University's ongoing analysis of city eGov, we read:

The researchers examined the electronic-government efforts of the
nation’s 70 largest city governments. Rounding out the top five were San Diego, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. At the bottom of the rankings were Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Greenville, S.C., Syracuse and West Palm Beach.

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Good of the process

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 10/12/2004 - 01:57.

The best
part of the REALNEO project to date is working much more intimately with open
source projects and leaders, and the personal freedom and insight that offers
me. Anyone in NEO who gets involved with REALNEO will share in this wonderful
experience of evolution, learning and empowerment – those left behind are truly
deprived in important ways.

I’m very
impressed with the technologies we’re assembling, and I’m enjoying getting off
legacy, proprietary systems as fast as possible. We’re running on Linux, and
Apache, and my SQL, and PHP, browsing in Firefox. We’re using Drupal and
starting to work with a half dozen other great projects that are making IT
better for the world, and the world better for all people – this is where Earth
is being reengineered by the next generation. And no Microsoft anywhere… no cost
anywhere, yet …I’ll pay Bryght and others for enhancements along the way, but that is
really a contribution to a greater cause.

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Learning REALNEO

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sun, 10/10/2004 - 01:44.

Excellent foundation - time to learn both the basics and how to make this the world class social network content management environment... that's what this is all about

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Drupal Developers challenge usability expert

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 10/08/2004 - 03:28.

The following message and links really drive home the beauty of open source, and the exciting dynamics of the Drupal community – the open source project we’re using as the CMS - content management system – at the core of the REALNEO community.

You’ll see that a computer user experience expert posted a criticism of all CMS systems and the Drupal community responded with a real open source challenge – Drupal developers offer to volunteer dozens of free hours of effort to fix anything this expert identifies as usability issues with Drupal – and all this free effort will make Drupal better for us. We are at the heart of this vibrant community, as one of the developers involved in this challenge is working on our project for Bryght. All this insight building is happening in the public space at the links below!

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