Open Social How To

Recently I met with Eben Moglen, the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, and David W. Levine, a researcher at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center and IBM representative to the Architectural Working Group, for an informal conversation that looked at many of the fundamental social, technological and legal questions of building 3D immersive online spaces like Second Life. I live only a couple of blocks from the Software Freedom Law Center. And, as the o

Original post by UgoTrade

Filed under: Internet, Social SoftwareThe first annual Open Web Awards voting season has officially drawn to a close. Yesterday we presented the Judge’s Choice winners. But we’ve long had a sinking suspicion that our readers are smarter than us, so we’ve been kind of curious to see what the results would be. And now we’re ready to share them with you. While we wouldn’t be surprised to discover there may have been some ballot box stuffing in one or two categories, but this is a popularity conte

Original post by Download Squad

I’ve always shied away from making predictions, because it’s normally an unforeseen option that suddenly breaks big. But I know Dave Cushman at FasterFuture is keen for more people to share their best guesses. So here goes: TheWayoftheWeb predictions for 2008 1. There will be a huge increase in users demanding faster broadband. A backlash is already starting against adverts for ‘up to 8Mb’, which actually gives you less than 2Mb because your house is in the wrong place, or five of your neighbo

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Filed under: Blogging, Productivity, Open Source, Social Software One of the main issues with open source software that people have (and a reason they don’t use it) is that it’s hard to install and configure. There is a new project called BitNami that is trying to take the sting out of the open source adoption process. They bundle many popular Open Source software packages into a 1-click setup file. Theoretically, all a user has to do it download the package of their choice and copy it on to

Original post by Download Squad

Check this nugget of goodness out: Open Web Awards: Judge’s Choice Winners Announced: However, I am proud to announce that behind the scenes the judges our 30 blog partners have also been casting their own votes, and without further ado, we are announcing the winners who will be receiving the first ever Open Web Awards at our event on January 10th at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco…. Social Search Mahalo w00t!

Original post by Sample the Web â?? Samplings from the World Wide Web by C.K. Sample III

Filed under: Internet, Social SoftwareWhile you’ve been busy casting votes for your favorite online communities in the Open Web Awards, the folks behind the scenes at Download Squad, Mashable, and 29 other participating blogs have been casting votes as well. Tomorrow we’ll have the complete list of of winners based on your votes. But it turns out it’s a lot easier to tally up a few dozen votes than tens of thousands, so today we bring you the Judge’s Choice winners. Mainstream and Large Soc

Original post by Download Squad

On December 11, 2007 the Annaba site in Algeria celebrated six months without accidents at its Raw Materials and Sintering unit. Bernard Bousquet, CEO ArcelorMittal Annaba, recognised the performance of the team in a ceremony attended by staff, social partners and union representatives, among others. Bousquet took the opportunity to congratulate the team concerned and encourage them to go forward in the protection of persons and facilities. Respect of security procedures and the plan of attack

Original post by ArcelorMittal WebTV - Creating History

The core of the argument by Beth Noveck in Wiki-Government. How open-source technology can make government decision-making more expert and more democratic. new technology may be changing the relationship between democracy and expertise, affording an opportunity to improve competence by making good information available for better governance. Large-scale knowledge-sharing projects, such as the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, and volunteer software-programming initiatives, such as the Apache W

Original post by Communities Dominate Brands

The DataPortability Workgroup is sponsoring an initiative called ‘GraphSync’. Here’s a snippet from the site: Your challenge, should you choose to accept it… Pick a silo of proprietary social graph dataWrite some open source code to extract the dataPlace that data into the open formats listed below.Link to the code repository on the DataPortability Wiki.Win the love and admiration of a grateful communitySo the idea is to build something much like the LinkedIn/Facebook/Spock ‘Import your co

Original post by [Technorati] Tag results for open social

The name Pligg has been bouncing around on the wires quite a bit in recent weeks. Certain well-connected bloggers have been dropping the name and singing its merits as an ideal Web CMS solution for a certain type of developer and a certain type of problem. Want to hear more? Here’s the Pligg lowdown.

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