Sometimes, people do such stupid things that words almost fail me. That’s the case with a Debian ‘improvement’ to OpenSSL that rendered this network security program next to useless in Debian, Ubuntu and other related Linux distributions.
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New Home for Creative Voices on Open Salon Published by Cindy August 28th, 2008 in Measurement, Websites, Reviews, Online Advertising, List Growing, Social Media, Social Networking, Interactive Advertisement, Innovation, Advertising. In an email sent to its Premium members recently, online news and entertainment site Salon.com announced that it wanted to do more for its greatest asset–its readers–by giving them a way to “create your own content, produce your own stories.”
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I signed up for the Sweetcron mailing list a while ago to keep up with this open source lifestream software. Today I find out that the beta has been released: Sweetcron is now available for download. I’m only announcing it to this list for now - don’t you feel special? It’s an open source project so you can grab the download from here: http://code.google.com/p/sweetcron/downloads/list Ongoing documentation is here, but it should be enough to get you started: http://code.google.com/p/sweetc
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For the past few years IBM has been inviting its employees to be part of 72-hour online innovation jams, brainstorming about everything from IBM values to new product and service ideas. It’s a great example of the business value of social media, which at its core is a platform of participation and sharing. The Fall 2008 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review has an in-depth article about IBM’s experience: “An Inside View of IBM’s Innovation Jam.” IBM brought 150,000 employees and stakeholder
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Last week at Gnomedex, the folks at Ma.gnolia announced the launch of their Ma.gnolia 2 (M2) effort, which is an ambitious effort to rethink and rebuild ma.gnolia, with a focus on embracing the open web. In the Project Charter (curiously only available as a PDF), they lay out these business goals: To further embrace and demonstrate the principles of open source development, distributed services and open web standards as a foundation for viable web-based businesses. To promote the use and b
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Organisations offering free software could be like drug dealers - creating dependency and cashing in later. That’s the warning from open source advocate John Spencer after looking at the UK government’s confusion over licensing
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Just announced today (27 August 2008), The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) and the Ministry of Education (MoE) are working with the State Government of Terengganu to further increase the adoption of Open Source Software in government and schools.
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The much-hyped “year of the Linux desktop” may still not be with us but there’s no doubting the free open-source operating system has gained significant traction in the last year. One reason for this is, with equal certainty, the mess that is Windows Vista. Here’s how it’s actively driving new interest in Linux.
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The combination of Ning and WidgetLaboratory (WL) was a story that had wikinomics written all over it. The former is a platform that enables anyone to create their own social networks focused on anything they want, and they actively encouraged individuals and companies to innovate on top of the platform and make it even better. WL did just that, and in a big way - they sold a number of widgets (for around $30 / month) tied to the Ning platform, supporting somewhere in the range of 2,000 network
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Welcome to the 186th edition of the Carnival of Education, the weekly virtual gathering of dozens of bloggers to discuss all things education. Q: Why do you say this edition is “brain-based”? A: Because the Q&A frame we are using is inspired by how Chris at Ouroboros recently hosted Encephalon Brain and Mind blog carnival. (Is classic Greek making a comeback?). Q: As educators, what inspires us to do what we do? A: Tracy suggests, “Hope for the future”. Q: And what may happen in the future
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