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Archive for March, 2010
In February Google announced that it was going to provide one or more communities gigabit broadband fiber with the goal of serving as a test bed. A group of us on Maui put together a Facebook page, a blog and a YouTube site which we are still evolving. We also worked with Maui County Councilmember Sol Kaho`ohalahala to create a response to Google’s RFI on behalf of the Maui County Council.
Jay Fidell of ThinkTechHawaii has watched the evolution of Hawaii’s news media over the last decades and played a part as a columnist, tv show host, and blogger. He brought together over 200 people including speakers from Washington, D.C. and a U.S. blogger in China, and one of the top Silicon Valley industry watchers plus Hawaii’s top media together on March 18th, 2010 in Honolulu.
Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar is launching a new venture with the goal of blending the best of traditional journalism with social networking: Peer News. Newly hired award winning editor John Temple’s first public talk on what Peer News hopes to achieve.