One of the projects that is emerging from the GAGH is the Beacon Project, a technical interface for implementing a web service that allows limited sharing of genetic data.
"You really can learn unique things about emissions and public health with a network of this density," says BEACON project leader Ron Cohen, a UC Berkeley professor of chemistry.
A new foundation, born out of a lawsuit regarding Facebook's Beacon project, is giving away more than $6 million "to fund projects and initiatives that promote the cause of online privacy, safety, and security".
The Beacon project started with a programme of home improvements which included installing double glazing and central heating.The once drab houses have been painted bright colours and increased street lighting has reduced vandalism.
If all of this is starting to sound a bit like Facebook's infamous Beacon project, it shouldn't be too surprising — from what we've heard a key part of these new Facebook features is to provide Beacon-like functionality in terms of auto-populating News Feed stories based around intent and actions.
The international Beacon project was designed as a public web service to enable institutions to share summary information about genomic data repositories.
With the Beacon project, he said, he will not be tied to an editor's vision or have to worry about getting paid by a financially struggling publication.
(Many of the rock climbers at the Met worked with the Starns on the Beacon project).
Beacon Project space holds movement workshops in which professional dancers work with the local high school students.
Facebook, having learned some lessons from its Beacon project last fall, is also pursuing more targeted advertising initiatives (e.g., its deal with jobs site CareerBuilder).
The infamous Beacon project also allows web services to import updates, but that takes the initiative of these other companies themselves.
