Open Source
How to Make Money on Open Source Software
(THE FASTER TIMES) - Yesterday our portfolio company Twilio announced the developer availability of theirOpen VBX platform. Techcrunch and GigaOm had good posts on it. Techcrunch called it “open source google voice for business” and Om Malik said “OpenVBX is simple and yields the one thing users want most: a voice mail box [...]
Open-source Facebook alternative
(POP MATTER) - This NYT piece profiles the people who are working on Diaspora, a would-be open-source alternative to Facebook.
As they describe it, the Diaspora* software will let users set up their own personal servers, called seeds, create their own hubs and fully control the information they share. Mr. Sofaer [...]
Labour trumpets open-source success
(ZD NET) - Stephen Timms — currently the government minister in charge of Digital Britain — spoke to ZDNet UK to explain how the Labour Party stands on strengthening the digital economy, using open source in government IT and protecting consumer data, among other issues.
The interview is part of ZDNet UK’s Tech [...]
VMware SpringSources for open source Rabbit
(THE REGISTER) - VMware’s open-source Java framework specialist SpringSource has acquired Rabbit Technologies, a UK-based outfit that offers an open source messaging platform for systems floating across so-called infrastructure clouds.
“We believe that messaging is a key technology in cloud computing,” SpringSource general manager Rod Johnson tells The Reg. “As applications [...]
Open Source outfit snubs Linux
(TECH EYE.net) - While open source is associated, Linux, it seems that the writers of the software Songbird did not get that memo.
Songbird developers Pioneers of The Inevitable have announced that it is abandoning its Linux product in favour of its Windows and Mac versions only.>
Writing in their bog, they said [...]
Microsoft, ‘open’ data, and the curse of open source
(THE REGISTER) - Do the rise of cloud computing and the outbreak of peace on open standards in the browser mean programmers will be forced to find new ways to make money online?
In the last few days, Microsoft surrendered to common sense by announcing that Internet Explorer will finally embrace common standards [...]
BBC claims angry iPlayer plugin mob ‘conflated’ open source term
(THE REGISTER) - The BBC has tried to draw a line under its decision to bar open source implementations of RTMP (real-time messaging protocol) streaming in the iPlayer, after The Register revealed the Corporation’s quiet switcheroo last week.
BBC online managing editor Ian Hunter claimed in a blog post today that the term [...]
Hobo, the Rapid Web App Builder for Ruby on Rails, Moves from Beta to Version 1.0
Hobo, the rapid web app builder for Rails, moves from beta to Version 1.0 after 3 years of community development. Celebrations start with two new Hobo books, a new logo and screencast and a whole universe of 1.0 improvements.
London, UK (PRWEB) Feb 23, 2010 — Hobo, the open source rapid web app builder for Ruby [...]
Opera cuts cord on first open-source baby
(THE REGISTER) - Opera has freed its first open source project, moving code for its Dragonfly debug tool onto the popular BitBucket hosting service.
Dragonfly - a website debug tool similar to Mozilla’s Firebug - was always intended as an open source project. From its inception in 2008, it carried an open source [...]
Daydream Publish Whitepaper on Metadata Strategies For Marketing Based Digital Asset Management
Leading European Enterprise Digital Asset Management (DAM) specialists, Daydream today publish a whitepaper on metadata strategies that marketing managers can use to significantly enhance the ROI that they can obtain from DAM systems and their stock of media assets.
London (PRWEB) February 5, 2010 — Daydream leading Open Source Enterprise Digital Asset Management (DAM) specialists have [...]
