Posts Tagged with ‘open-source’

It seems every few days Wikipedia manages to make the news in one way or another. In various instances it’s being crowned a next-generation resource with an incredible wealth of reliable information, some of which simply cannot and will never be found within the bounds of publications such as the OED or the Encyclopedia Brittanica. In others, it’s being scrubbed for fraud and misuse due to revelations of edits made by public personas and institutions (some quite influential) to entries [...]

We all love the concept of open source. It excites us. Despite the fact that the vast majority of computer users rely on creations born of a proprietary nature for most, or even all of their daily tasks, a big soft spot for Tux & Friends still exists. In an ideal world, everything would be “open”. I’m sure you’d agree.
There’ve been some great successes in the OS world. Linux, for one. It’s not the most popular platform out there today [...]

In the comments section of my review of Clipperz, CEO of Clipperz Marco Barulli disagreed with my concerns about using third-party libraries for Clipperz, as well as an open-source JavaScript cryptographic library. Fortify Software would seem to agree with me, releasing an advisory this week on a known vulnerability in Web 2.0 sites that rely on Ajax.
Fortify examined 12 popular Ajax frameworks, including the biggies - Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! - as well as open-source releases. Their [...]

I recently professed my love for PassPack. However, I am a techno-weenie, and when something that promises to be even cooler comes along, I am compelled to at least give it a test run. Clipperz has been getting quite a bit of press lately, and when we here at Profy were asked to give it a look, I jumped on the task. I'm not the most organized of people, and if someone is going to promise to keep me organized even [...]

Meet one of the faces of the real Web 2.0, open source community! Swik, the SourceLabs project has put on a new dinner jacket and is ready to tango.
I was surfing for news when I ran across an article on Techmambo about Swik. Ironically, a good friend IM'd my yesterday about Swik's latest project to offer users the ability to submit stories (ala Digg and Netscape) and to tag and vote on those stories. This is not another story about a startup, but [...]

We’re hours away from 2007 and nary a list of predictions has cropped up here on Profy. What gives? Maybe our dubious overlords (I’m not sure what the secrecy clause in the contract said about mentioning the gods of Web 2.0 openly. Oh well.) have instituted a crack down I never received notice of. Or, maybe, just maybe, we’re trying to cover our bases by preempting a year of “Ha-ha, you were wrong!” with silence. Whatever the case maybe, I [...]

Foss.in, a conference dedicated to pooling together headliners and close followers of the FOSS (Free Open Source Software) movement, opened its doors at the National Science Symposium Center in Bangalore, India, on Friday. The crowd is slated to disperse throughout the world after three intensive days of workshops, discussions, orations, and demonstrations, ending today.
Two especially noteworthy keynotes will be presented at this year’s Foss.in: one by Sun Microsystems’ Moinak Ghosh, an individual partly responsible for Belenix, a project open-source to [...]

One downside of a “free plus ad-supported” business model is that it could impact the quality of the content offerings. On one side, free encourages anyone to take part – quite often, spam results. Blogspot is an example – the growth in the popularity of blogging, the importance Google gives to blogs in general and Blogspot in particular, and the fact that anyone can set up a free blog on blogspot, has led to an explosion of splogs.
On the other [...]

So you’ve prepped up your new site for its big (hopefully) day in the sun, and you think a little introduction would be a nice final touch to making first-time visitors feel a little more welcome and get to know all aspects of your prized [possession?] for the full-monty experience. What do you do? Well, you could simply write up a piece bulleting your way to encapsulating ‘yoursite.com/net/biz/blah’. Too bland? Ok, then you might want to check out Amberjack.
Whatever product [...]