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added 2008 Sun Jan 27 7:00:00 by unknown user
As the Web continues to evolve and more of our lives move online, we believe that Web browsers like Firefox can and should do more to broker rich experiences while increasing user control over their data and personal information. Saved By: entangledstate | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2008 Mon Jan 21 7:00:00 by unknown user
A CMS for multi-author open sites. Saved By: Kars | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2008 Thu Jan 17 7:00:00 by unknown user
David Weinberger echos the Library of Congress is sharing some of its non-copyright photos openly on Flickr. Awesome! Saved By: Thomas Vander Wal | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Wed Jun 6 2:13:37 by Dan and Jennifer
Unhappy marriages can often lead to one or both partners cheating and having long term affairs. But what if you really want to stay with your current partner, although you realize that your partner is not able to fulfill your needs for sex and intimacy? Some people consider an open marriage as a solution.
added 2007 Fri Jun 1 2:30:30 by questionseverything
WASHINGTON - Advocates of a bill promoting openness in government are fuming that a Republican senator is blocking a vote on the measure. Dozens of journalism and advocacy groups supporting the Open Government Act say it would speed up the government's response to public requests for information under the federal Freedom of Information law.
added 2007 Sat May 26 8:23:44 by schestowitz
One thing is for sure, and despite Microsoft's official denials; open source software is the biggest threat the company faces to its world-beating business model. This was further underlined with Dell's announcement that it was shipping a range of desktops and notebooks with open source operating system Ubuntu preloaded.
added 2007 Thu May 17 1:31:40 by BrianJJohnson
The 100 open courseware sources listed here are freely available for anyone to use, whether you're a student, an instructor, or a self-learner. The courses are categorized by subject and listed alphabetically within that subject.
added 2007 Tue May 8 18:23:29 by cfinke
Chipmark is an student-run open-source project at the University of Minnesota that lets you store your bookmarks in one place and access them from all of your computers; besides entralized bookmark storage, its features include Firefox and IE extensions, bookmark recommendations, and bookmark sharing.
added 2007 Thu May 3 2:25:57 by jeremytoday
There has historically been, and still is, a lack of good, free MacOS native EDA (electronic design automation) software. The situation has somewhat improved in the past few years because the X11 layer in Mac OS X allows graphical unix applications to run natively on the Mac, concurrently with other programs.

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added 2007 Sat Apr 28 1:17:47 by jeremytoday
The company is revealing the source code of its alternative to Flash in order to make inroads with the Web developer community and better compete with Adobe
added 2007 Sat Apr 7 23:19:01 by tomboy501
Recent legislation sponsored by Waxman: The Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 2007, The Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007, The Presidential Library Donation Reform Act of 2007, The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2007, and The Accountability in Contracting Act.
added 2007 Sun Apr 1 3:36:27 by Digidave
A new class of knowledge commons is poised to explode in coming years, joining the ranks of free and open source software, the Creative Commons, Wikipedia and others as a coherent social movement.
added 2007 Mon Mar 26 23:20:48 by blainegarrett
Popular Blogging Software Wordpress.com now is providing OpenIDs for its user. OpenIds are a new web standard that allow you to log in to sites like Jyte and even now Netscape.com using a single username/password.
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added 2007 Sat Mar 24 11:17:43 by gatitabonitasen
Dear Mr President, IT'S been four years since the Coalition of the Willing led by you invaded Iraq to bring down the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein. This war had been necessary, of course. As you had rightly enlightened us in the Middle East and the Muslim world on the eve of the Invasion, the late Iraqi dictator possessed a fearsome ar
added 2007 Thu Mar 22 8:31:43 by spokerpoker
10 Open Source solutions college students can use to save cash (and afford to do the laundry).
added 2007 Mon Mar 12 10:47:43 by gatitabonitasen
Though laws in every state say government records and meetings must be open to all, reality often falls far short: Laws are sporadically enforced, penalties for failure to comply are mild and violators almost always walk away with nothing more than a reprimand, an Associated Press survey of all 50 states has found.
added 2007 Fri Mar 9 19:32:02 by populist
An open-source search engine from Wikipedia creator is planned for launch at the end of the year.
added 2007 Sat Mar 3 9:54:51 by Digidave
"In support of the innovative use of Internet-based tools in the production of a daily public radio program." If you're not familiar with Radio Open Source, this is an approach worth at least serious consideration, and perhaps outright emulation, by broadcasters elsewhere.
added 2007 Sun Feb 25 5:16:26 by corey.spring
A short film that gives a brief overview of Net Neutrality. Anyone is free to download and edit this film, maybe your changes will even be used in the next version. Thanks to Dave for finding this.
added 2007 Sun Feb 25 0:40:36 by Digidave
A short film about Net Neutrality. Also, anyone can download and edit the film -- perhaps edits you make will show up in the next version.
added 2007 Sat Feb 24 14:26:48 by siddhu1983
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday renewed Washington's warning to Iran that "all options" are on the table if the country continues to defy U.N.-led efforts to get Tehran to abandon its nuclear programs.
added 2007 Fri Feb 23 10:42:34 by Digidave
Open source is so much more than Linux these days. A lot is happening beyond the popular operating system. Open source models are thriving in CRM (SugarCRM), messaging (Scalix), and systems management (Zenoss).
added 2007 Fri Feb 16 8:13:22 by trojanhorse
We're always up for a good open-source project with all the right intentions, and OpenMoko has to stand near the top of that list. After all, what could possibly be better (read: geekier) than open-source phone platforms? Well, turns out we have the answer: an open-source phone, that's what.
added 2007 Wed Feb 7 21:52:52 by starboy
The palm-sized PDA tucked away in Justine Aitel's pocketbook just might be the most scary device on display at this year's RSA security conference.
added 2007 Fri Feb 2 20:50:29 by jeremytoday
French authorities will give out 175,000 USB memory sticks loaded with open-source software to Parisian high-school students at the start of the next school year.
added 2007 Tue Jan 23 7:00:00 by unknown user
A collection of Universities that offer free podcasts of their lectures.
added 2007 Sun Jan 21 9:53:07 by unknown user
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added 2007 Sat Jan 13 19:29:58 by 3monkeys
As we previously observed, .odt documents are stored in ZIP format. It is possible to store the document as a single XML file. It is also possible to store the document as several subdocuments, each with a different document root that represents a particular aspect of the document, such as, content or style.
added 2007 Sat Jan 13 15:14:38 by schestowitz
According to Mozilla, Firefox 3.0 could be released in Q3 or Q4 of this year, with Firefox 4.0 following in 2008.
added 2007 Mon Jan 8 17:05:16 by Fabienne
From the post: "In 1993, NCSA released their liberally licensed, but proprietary, Mosaic 2.0 browser with support for inline images arguably heralding the start of the web as we know it today...We are not desperate, and we welcome the inevitable with open arms. Stepping up the development of the Second Life Grid to everyone interested, I am proud to announce the availability of the Second Life client source code for you to download, inspect, compile, modify, and use within the guidelines of the GNU GPL version 2." [via Boing Boing]