Posts Tagged with ‘open-source’

Today at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle creators of one of the most popular social bookmarking services Ma.gnolia (but definitely far behind Delicious) have announced that they have decided to make the code behind the service open-source and rely on the developers community for further updates and growth of Ma.gnolia.
What’s more, being open-sources for Ma.gnolia means that any webmaster or any company will be able to take the code, customize it and install it as a part of other existing [...]

With all the discussion of Twitter clones, the idea that Open Source software is some sort of magic bullet that will achieve scalability and free users from some concept of tyranny that results in application outages. There's obviously a huge misunderstanding about what Open Source really means, so here are six myths about Open Source:
1. Open Source means free.
Just because there's no charge for the code itself, that doesn't mean that an Open Source application comes without hidden charges. You [...]

A while back a little RSS feed tool was released called Snackr. The basic idea behind Snackr is that it takes your RSS feeds and scrolls them across your desktop, so you get a constant stream of updated news and can pick whatever looks most interesting as it goes by. I tried Snackr for a while and had to abandon it in spite of how fun it was (with the number of news feeds for the amount and variety of [...]

Facebook fatigue. Have you heard the phrase? Are you suffering from it? Where once I logged into Facebook first thing every morning to check status updates and new links from tech-minded friends, I can't tell you the last time I logged in. And I no longer seem to get friend requests, although I regularly find adds on FriendFeed and LinkedIn.
Today is the first anniversary of the launch of the Facebook Platform, and it was marked with the official announcement that [...]

Odds are if you are involved in the tech industry, you've attended a meeting remotely. And odds are, you've done so using the ubiquitous WebEx, owned by Cisco. However, for companies who are bootstrapping, or individuals (like freelancers), WebEx's prices can make it just out of reach. DimDim, which first launched as an alpha back in 2006, may step into that space, but that depends on your point of view.
DimDim has four products: DimDim Free, DimDim Pro, DimDim Enterprise, and [...]

Tired of the news you are finding on Digg and Slashdot? Convinced that you are smarter than the combined user base of those two and Fark? Numbrosia thinks they have the solution: merit-based news submissions.
With Numbrosia, gone are the “everyone votes” models of Digg and Fark, as well as the editorial control of Slashdot. Instead, your submission gets floated or sunk based on merit. Users earn merit points based on their daily score earned completing the logic puzzles on the [...]

Allan Stern over at Center Networks is much more excited about the Microsoft conference call today than I am. A quick scan of the press release will tell you all you need to know, and that it's a big fluffy piece of PR being floated out there. I grabbed a buzzword bingo card online and had a bingo before I was finished with the first three paragraphs.
Make no mistake in my feelings about the proposed Microsoft purchase of Yahoo; Microsoft [...]

Thursday night, the first face-to-face meeting was held at the RapLeaf offices in California or those involved in the Data Portability Group, including Chris Saad (Faraday Media), Daniela Barbosa (Dow Jones), J. Sullivan (Mozilla), Mike McKenna (Yahoo), Marc Canter, Tod Sampson (MyBlogLog), Steve Williams (Digg), Ben Metcalfe, David Recordon (Six Apart), Joseph Smarr (Plaxo), J. Trent Adams (MatchMine) and Jim Meyer (LinkedIn).
Chris Saad opened the meeting with introductions and explaining the new hierarchy of the Google Groups set up for [...]

Users of the Movable Type 4.1 blogging platform from Six Apart can now enjoy the added benefits of microblogging with a new plugin known as Action Streams, which is part of the company's strategy towards more social openness.
With Action Streams, which works similarly to Facebook's news feed and FriendFeed (previously covered here), bloggers can “aggregate, control, and share” actions around the web, while avoiding some of the problems that have plagued current offerings. For example, Six Apart mentions that users [...]