Open APIs are the sexiest thing to ever happen to government services Open, free, citizen data at your fingertips APIs are cutting down on admin BS… and I love it An API, or application programming interface, is a structured way for different systems to query and share data with each other. If you’ve ever used a flight booking platform, like Skyscanner, you’ll know that you simply need to type in your destination and dates and the platform will pull up all possible flight journeys within those parameters....

Open APIs are the sexiest thing to ever happen to government services Open, free, citizen data at your fingertips APIs are cutting down on admin BS… and I love it An API, or application programming interface, is a structured way for different systems to query and share data with each other. If you’ve ever used a flight booking platform, like Skyscanner, you’ll know that you simply need to type in your destination and dates and the platform will pull up all possible flight journeys within those parameters....

Open source web meeting tool DimDim gets $6 million in series B Story byErnst-Jan Pfauth Ernst-Jan Pfauth is the former Editor in Chief of Internet at NRC Handelsblad, as well as an acclaimed technology author and columnist. He a(show all)Ernst-Jan Pfauth is the former Editor in Chief of Internet at NRC Handelsblad, as well as an acclaimed technology author and columnist. He also served as The Next Web’s blog’s first blogger and Editor in Chief, back in 2008....

Open source web meeting tool DimDim gets $6 million in series B Story byErnst-Jan Pfauth Ernst-Jan Pfauth is the former Editor in Chief of Internet at NRC Handelsblad, as well as an acclaimed technology author and columnist. He a(show all)Ernst-Jan Pfauth is the former Editor in Chief of Internet at NRC Handelsblad, as well as an acclaimed technology author and columnist. He also served as The Next Web’s blog’s first blogger and Editor in Chief, back in 2008....

Open-plan offices make you stressed and moody: We’ve got the data to prove it New study shows just how distracting office noise is How we simulated open-plan office noise We used a simulated office setting with volunteers to compare the effects of typical open-plan office noise to a quieter private office on a range of objective and subjective measures of well-being and performance. Our carefully manipulated soundscapes included people speaking, walking, printing papers, ringing telephones, and keyboard typing noises....