UK telco British Telecom has been working hard to reduce its carbon footprint: Last year the company said it would invest close to half a billion dollars in wind farms, and in February BT installed a solar system for its U.S. headquarters. This morning the company says it plans to reduce its carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020. Ah BT, you put our U.S. telcos to shame. Earth2Tech has the full story.
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GigaNET Weekend Edition
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eBay Founder Omidyar Invests in Hawaiian Solar
Those that forged infotech are going green in droves. The latest is eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, who has just invested in Hawaiian startup Sopogy, a builder of small-scale solar thermal plants that concentrate the suns rays to produce power. Unlike many well-known solar thermal startups that are building huge plants in the desert, Sopogy’s technology is on a much smaller scale, and can even be installed on rooftops. And this isn’t Omidyar’s first cleantech investment; last year his trust also invested in biodiesel company USBioDiesel Group. For the full story, got to Earth2Tech.
Zecter Invites & Our Poll About File Sharing
File-sharing service Zecter has opened up in private beta, for which the Silicon Valley-based startup that has taken funding from Y Combinator and Tandem Ventures has provided GigaOM with 150 invites that can be accessed here.
The service has numerous features aimed at simplifying the sharing process, including the ability to sync files, track file access and retract shared documents, as well as to open a file directly from the browser in any desktop application, make edits, and save the changes back to the web. In the meantime, we’re curious to hear about your sharing methodology. Take our poll or leave a comment.
GigaNET PM: Cable Woes Open Source Google
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- OStatic : Google’s now allowing the download of five well-known Ajax libraries (Dojo, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Mootools, and jQuery).
Orgoo Invites:
Orgoo, an L.A.-based startup that provides online communication tools, has just beefed up its offerings with a host of new features, including new video chat, two-way SMS, and more. The company plans to open Orgoo to the public soon, but in the meantime it’s offering invites for 500 GigaOM readers. To get your invite, go here.
OATV Startup Camp Wants You:
O’Reilly Media is looking for founders from early-stage startups to attend its OATV Startup Camp, a two-day event that will cover topics such as fundraising, PR and viral marketing, as well as working with investors and a board of directors. It will be held in Sebastopol, Calif. from July 11-13, just prior to the annual hacker gathering, Foo Camp. For more info., including how to apply, go here.
What Is the Future of the Web?
Is Net Neutrality essential for democracy? What role will AI have in the future of the web? What will Web 4.0 look like? On June 11, in an attempt to answer these and other questions, Tim Berners-Lee and other leading web authorities will gather at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., for an old-fashioned debate with a social media twist: The content of the debate will be collaboratively created by web users, who can submit questions and promote them through a user-based ranking system similar to Digg. The most popular questions will form the basis of the debate, which will be webcast live. Viewers will also be able to interact with the panelists by submitting questions and comments in real time. For more details about this interactive event, plus instructions on how to submit and rank questions, go here.
Mapping Climate Change Using Google Earth
How to visualize the colossal amount of data surrounding climate change? Al Gore squeezed a lot of info into 100 minutes and a PowerPoint presentation, but the next step needs to be dynamic, interactive and malleable. With that in mind, two government research groups out of the UK have released climate change-related data using Google Earth Outreach. Earth2Tech has the full story on their efforts, as well as a how-to for viewing the data.
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