Day: December 5, 2011

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Swaapr Brings Peer-to-Peer Textbook Rentals to College Campuses

Our company mission is simple: We want to make your college experience more affordable and fun. We believe in transparency, integrity, and customer satisfaction at the highest level. This company was founded by the three college students who were tired of getting ripped off by companies that capitalize on college students. So we built a service with the college student in mind. We offer peer to peer rentals as well as allow students who wish to share skills that with one another on one’s college campus.

via Swaapr | About Us.

Seems like a pretty good idea. It seems like Swaapr just got off the ground a month or so ago, so it will be interesting to keep an eye on them as they grow. You can follow along on the the Swaapr blog or Twitter.

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Data.gov to be Open Sourced for World-Wide Deployment

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/datagov_to_be_open_sourced_for_world-wide_deployme.php

Ambitious but largely defunded open government data platform Data.gov is now working with counterparts at India’s National Informatics Centre to offer an open source body of code known as the Open Government Platform or “Data.gov-in-a-Box.” It’s the kind of move that, in theory, the political Left can support because of its impact on transparency and government accountability and the political Right can support because it puts government in a role that emphasizes facilitating innovation and economic development. It sounds like a very smart way to deal with the declining financial support for Data.gov itself. It could be a big win…

The code for the platform is based on Drupal and you can download a copy from Github at https://github.com/opengovplatform/opengovplatform.