TAG: opensource
Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly
"So far, every time the Web has matched up against a proprietary alternative, the Web has prevailed."
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Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook
"An alliance of companies led by Google plans to roll out a common set of standards to allow developers to write programs for Google’s Orkut and other social networking Web sites."
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Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up
"At this point, "friend" relationships remain unique to the social networks. The web still lacks a generalized way to convey relationships between people's identities on the internet."
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"Developed internally at Virgin America, the system is named Red and provides live satellite tv, movies, mp3s, games and plane-wide chatting. Yes, chatting."
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"The One Laptop Per Child project is one step closer to releasing the completed machine to millions of schoolchildren in the developing world. But what makes the computer so unique?"
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What is an Open Creative Community?
"The barrier to entry is creative citizenship, and you are either a citizen and a participant or you are not, based on your individual relationship to that community’s interests, practices, proximity and values."
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Doc Searls on opening up your ideas.
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PHPlist: Email Confirmation not arriving
I spent hours trying to figure why the confirmation email wasn't arriving. Turns out I just needed to "make sure you have [quote]define ("TEST",0);[/quote] in your 'config/config.php' file." So simple . . .
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What would radical transparency mean for Wired? (Part 2)
"Some of these are based on my experience in open-sourcing my book research on this site, which worked great. Why not apply the same lessons to a magazine?"
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"The right thing is to build not a bubble, with it's binary in-or-out choice, but to build a gradient, with shades of resources you make available as people achieve success."
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Four Big Ideas About Open Source
"In short, you can see that I believe that there are serious challenges to the open source model. For all its success (and that success has been world-changing), it's important not to get complacent."
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"You only get one chance to make a first impression; why have it be "junk"? Once that's associated with your name or project, it's tough to scrape off." The other side of the "release early, release often" coin.
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"Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams."
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"An Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications."
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Vanilla is a PHP / MySQL solution that is 100% open-source.
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Interview with Eric von Hippel: "I mean that product and service users-both individuals and firms-are increasingly able to innovate for themselves."
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It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur
Bnoopy: "There’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur because it’s never been cheaper to be one. "
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NeoOffice/J is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X.
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Open source software companies undercutting other open source software companies. Sounds like war.
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On the battle (??) between OpenBSD and Linux
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The assault on software giant Microsoft
The next two years will be crucial for software giant Microsoft. Under attack on numerous fronts, it could falter - or fight back to become even more dominant.
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From open source to open services to open information
Jon Udell: "Don't lock in my data. Services that try to do that will fail because, in the final analysis, social applications are powered by the people who co-create them."
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The global home for grassroots media
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Technology increases the ability of people to share, but will they share more than just technology?
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