Posts Tagged with ‘proprietary’

Last night I synced my iPod (fifth gen, for those who care to know) to my iTunes library, disconnected, crashed on the nearest couch I could find, and found a new episode of MacBreak Weekly awaiting a listen on the device. The two hours that followed (it was 104 minutes in length precisely, but a few pauses pushed the session to somewhere around 120) were quite interesting indeed.
The topic around which the most discussion encircled was open source, and [...]

There’s growing discontent over the closed, “walled garden”-like approach to the development of social networks today. Every such website, after all, has its own system, its own way of operating, which often varies considerably from competitors across the industry. Few, if any, mesh with one another. This has come to be seen as a significant problem by some “cross-pollinators”: people who have chosen to take up residence in multiple circles structured within disparate networks. Because barriers have been put in [...]