The Android app I’m Getting Arrested allows users to set up alerts in advance and send them to relatives and lawyers when they are about to be detained.
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App City: About to Be Hauled Off in Handcuffs? Press Send
If you’re a bureaucracy junkie, the Office of Management and Budget has a cool toy for you. Performance.gov is a Web site OMB plans to launch at midday Thursday. It allows users to track the progress, or lack of it, federal agencies are making in a number of areas. Actually much more than a toy for geeks, it can be an important means of holding the administration accountable on its plans to make the government more user-friendly. During a period when many folks seem to want government to do almost nothing, those in government are forced to take extra steps to demonstrate not only that what government does is important but also that government does its duties as efficiently as it can. Read full article > >
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Office of Management and Budget puts accountability online
Facebook is launching a system that allows users to ‘report’ friends who they think may be contemplating suicide.
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VIDEO: Facebook adds suicide help system
Facebook is launching a system that allows users to ‘report’ friends who they think may be contemplating suicide.
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VIDEO: Facebook adds suicide help system
Amazon’s Kindle is proving popular in China because it allows users to log on to banned websites.
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Amazon rekindles Twitter in China
