Posts Tagged with ‘open-source’

Remember when Guy Kawasaki launched Truemors on the cheap? Bootstrapping a Web 2.0 start-up is the name of the game, but one of the problems with this mentality s that apps aren't built to scale out of the box. Services like Amazon's EC2 can help with scaling your hardware needs, but you still have to be able to be able to build that app to scale across all those servers. Enter GigaSpaces' eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), which
“combines advanced services [...]

Over the last few years we've seen the rise in popularity of Open Source software solutions. As this concept has crept across the Internet, it has left the confines of geekdom and begun to gather mainstream traction. People and businesses everywhere are finally recognizing Open Source software's potential for cost savings and ease of use.
Many people I speak with offline about Open Source seem to think it is a brand, when in fact it is much more a philosophy [...]

Happen to be a fan of free open source software? How ‘bout Open Office? Pretty useful suite of software, right? Indeed.
But what if you’re equally enthralled by things Web-based? You like what Zoho’s got. You may admire what Google has done thus far. Wouldn’t it be nice to have the best of both worlds? Open source software for use online?
Enter, Ulteo. A company that adheres strongly to the basic mantra stipulated by Torvalds and Tux, Ulteo has exercised its [...]

The modern invention known as OpenID, first developed by a Mr Brad Fitzpatrick (creator of LiveJournal), offers quite an enticing prospect. In essence, its purpose is to simplify greatly the maintenance of multiple Web service/utility accounts, by providing a single name and single password, both (ideally) secure, in order that the user’s experience when interacting with said accounts be as seamless and fluid as possible. No documents full of passcodes to maintain. No need to entrust sensitive data to various [...]

If you?ve been following developments inside the Pennsylvania state legislature in the past, say, 5 years or so, you?ll know that quite a few lawmakers tend to go against the grain of conventional wisdom.
If you recall the absurdity that resulted in the Intelligent Design debacle, in which some in the state seriously contemplated a shift in elementary school curriculum to allow for some measure of non-scientific ?study? in science classes, you?ll know that at least a few higher-ups in the [...]

There’s a great deal of talk surrounding recent news coming out of Mountain View as of late. Understandably so. In the last week or so, we’ve seen revealed a number of grand projects by Google: one having to do with the development of an open Web platform, dubbed OpenSocial; another having to do with a software-specific mobile project. (Yesterday, Google publicly divulged the outline of that mobile project, now known as the Open Handset Alliance.)
And there’s also been ample chatter [...]

If you were ever unsure whether or not Microsoft and Google are evil bastards, then you should absorb this little tidbit of news. A number of major research libraries just refused offers from both Google and Microsoft to scan their resources into computer databases. Out of the goodness of their hearts these two behemoths have been offering to scan these extensive and important resources for free - with stipulations that the material not be made available to other [...]

Until today, I had heard nothing about an instant messaging client for Facebook being in the works. But, apparently that may be the case.
In news that is not just new to me, Sam Sethi of blognation UK has stated today that he has “just been given a sneek preview of a new Facebook IM client that is going into beta this Friday.”
If this is true, is it really created by Facebook developers (as opposed to being a third party [...]

Following weeks of public opposition to the BBC’s delivery of a Windows-only IPTV-based software solution, dubbed iPlayer, Downing Street has now officially come to the aid of the 16,000 netizens who signed an electronic petition designed to address the matter of inequality. The UK government is reiterating conditions originally stipulated by the BBC Trust (a sort of internal watchdog of the media house) as indeed mandatory, and that the BBC must provide solutions for the minorities of the PC market. [...]