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W3C pulls former Novell CTO for CEO spot
“Filling a position left open since 2008, former Novell CTO Jeffrey Jaffe has taken on the role of chief executive officer for the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).”
tags: novell, w3c
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Second Life’s virtual money can become real-life cash – washingtonpost.com
“Last year, as the physical economy withered, Second Life’s economy blossomed, with user-to-user transactions topping $567 million in actual U.S. currency, a 65 percent jump over 2008. About 770,000 unique users made repeat visits to Second Life in December, and the users, known as residents, cashed out $55 million of their Second Life earnings last year, transferring that money to PayPal accounts.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world
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What to expect from HTML 5 | Developer World – InfoWorld
“HTML 5 aims to change all that. When it is finalized, the new standard will include tags and APIs for improved interactivity, multimedia, and localization. As experimental support for HTML 5 features has crept into the current crop of Web browsers, some developers have even begun voicing hope that this new, modernized HTML will free them from reliance on proprietary plug-ins such as Flash, QuickTime, and Silverlight.”
tags: HTML
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Major League Baseball to Stream ESPN Events – NYTimes.com
“ESPN had previously used the services of Move Networks, based in American Fork, Utah. But Move’s system required that customers download a special video player that uses Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, said John Kosner, senior vice president of ESPN Digital Media. The network wanted to make its site easier to use by moving to a supplier that used Adobe’s popular Flash software, which operates within the Web browser.”
tags: baseball, espn, silverlight, microsoft
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The web designer’s guide to WordPress | News | TechRadar UK
“So what can WordPress do for designers? A lot, my friends! First and foremost, WordPress is a CMS.”
tags: wordpress, cms, open-source
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How to run almost any OS on your Mac | News | TechRadar UK
“In fact, as a Mac user, you’re uniquely positioned because an Intel Mac is the only computer in the world that can legally run all three major operating systems, Mac OS, Windows and Linux. Indeed, you can, if you like, load all three on the same computer and pick which one you want to load when you switch your Mac on.”
tags: mac, osx, linux, virtualization
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IT PRO | Q&A: Mark Kingdon on Second Life for business
“At the CeBIT conference in Hanover this week, Kingdon told IT PRO that more business functions would move to worlds like Second Life, for meetings, simulations and more – especially after the launch of more user-friendly systems, like the beta of its new viewer, which allows document sharing.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world
Gamasutra – News – BigWorld Debuts New Indie, Academic Engine Licenses
“Hoping to offer its tools to a new userbase, engine developer BigWorld is launching three new licenses geared for indie, student and small commercial MMO developers.
BigWorld Technology suite intends to offer a “complete technical architecture” for online game and virtual world developers, and includes BigWorld Server Software, Content Creation Pipeline, 3D Client Engine Package, and Live Management Tools & Instrumentation.”
tags: bigworld, virtual-world
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Hands-on: a close look at Ubuntu’s new non-brown theme
“Canonical is updating Ubuntu’s look and feel with a new style that departs from the popular Linux distribution’s traditional brown theming. The new theme, which was announced yesterday as part of an initiative to overhaul Ubuntu’s branding and visual identity, will be used in the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 release, codenamed Lucid Lynx.”
tags: ubuntu, linux, theme
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IBM brings memory flexibility to x86 servers
“IBM’s eX5 servers will come in blade and rackmount configurations, with the first ones being released later in March. IBM is taking the Intel architecture and adding a chip of IBM’s own design that reduces latency between memory and processors. IBM claims the new servers will improve database performance by a factor of 30 over current systems, while greatly improving performance-per-watt and virtual server density.”
tags: ibm, server, ex5
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IBM Unveils eX5 Servers — InformationWeek
“IBM on Tuesday introduced a new server technology it says will dramatically increase performance and cut computing costs for businesses that run their applications and storage on industry-standard, Intel-based servers.
Big Blue’s eX5 chipset, announced at the CeBIT industry conference in Hannover, Germany, promises to reduce the number of servers required for a given workload by 50%, cut storage costs by 97%, and lower licensing fees by half, according to the company.”
tags: ex5, ibm, server
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IBM is innovating in servers again | The View from Forrester Research | ZDNet.com
“We also applaud IBM’s aggressiveness in announced the new System x lineup ahead of the official launch of Intel and AMD’s new processors. The usual routine calls for the server vendors to wait for these components to be announced in order to avoid pre-empting details of these new parts. IBM deftly sidestepped this concern opening a window in the press just for itself.
Welcome back System x.”
tags: ibm, server, system-x, ex5
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Real-world woes shuttering virtual world There | Geek Gestalt – CNET News
“There’s departure from the scene will mean that the environment for immersive 3D social virtual worlds, already increasingly barren, will now be even more so. But perhaps because it chose a different financial model, privately-held Second Life publisher Linden Lab has managed to stay ahead of the recession and is said to be profitable.”
tags: virtual-world, there.com
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New York State Trout Season Opens April 1 – NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation
“Trout season opens April 1 in New York State, and anglers can again look forward to a great year of fishing, thanks to the natural diversity of angling opportunities within New York and management of the state’s fisheries by DEC.”
tags: NYS, fishing
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How Sun’s need to control the code cost them the company | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
“Real Free Software projects like Linux completely give up centralized control and ownership, in favor of a decentralized model that means contributors keep ownership and see direct benefits to participation, with no one party being able to take advantage over others.”
tags: linux, open-source, sun, oracle, solaris
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Twitter Drops MySQL For Cassandra — Cloud databases — InformationWeek
“Guess what? Cassandra is going to tweet. The open source Cassandra data management system is going to replace the MySQL database system at Twitter, the latest of several MySQL replacements at social networking sites, according to Ryan King, a software engineer at Twitter.”
tags: twitter, cassandra, mysql
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Release Notes/Second Life Beta Viewer/2.0 – Second Life Wiki
“Thank you for downloading the Beta release of Viewer 2, the next generation Second Life viewer that combines an easy browser-like experience with complete shared media capabilities. This new viewer is designed with the average resident in mind, so it has nearly all the capabilities currently available in Viewer 1.23, but it’s been reorganized into a friendlier and more intuitive user experience. This guide is designed to help you quickly reorient yourself to the new viewer and allow you to take full advantage of the new features available exclusively in Viewer 2 – in particular, Second Life Shared Media and the new enhanced Second Life Search.
On this page you’ll find highlights of many of Viewer 2’s basic features, but there’s much more to learn for Second Life content creators, developers, and other power users.”
tags: second-life
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451 CAOS Theory » Dual of denial – on the success and failure of dual licensing
“Where we do see dual licensing used, it is more often in enabling users that are unwilling or unable to use the GNU GPL to make use of the underlying code. In that way, dual licensing can be used to serve two different user groups, rather than attempting to cross- or up-sell open source users with a commercial version.”
tags: 451, open-source, license
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Linux kernel R&D worth over 1bn euros • The Register
“How much would it cost the European Union to cobble together the Linux kernel from scratch?
The development costs would reach over a billion euros (or about £900m, or $1.4bn USD), according to researchers from the University of Oviendo, Spain. Jesús García-García and Mª Isabel Alonso de Magdaleno are set to present this open source thought experiment at the European Union’s Conference on Corporate R&D next month.”
tags: linux, open-source
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Hungry? How About An Open Source Restaurant | NetworkWorld.com Community
“Imagine just finishing a great dish at a restaurant and wishing you could make that at home. Well at the Instructables Restaurant you can do just that. In fact not only can you get the “source code” of the dish you ate, but you can download the plans to the furniture and fixtures as well.”
tags: restaurant, open-source
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A word of caution when trying the Second Life Viewer 2 Beta with current OpenSim | justincc.org
“However, according to John Hurliman the version of the OpenMetaverse library currently being used by opensim has a problem dealing with at least one of the new inventory packets in the 2.0 Viewer. This means that it’s not impossible that using the viewer with OpenSim today could inadvertently destroy some of your inventory items.”
tags: opensim, second-life
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The Leader – News from Wrexham & Flintshire – ‘Second Life’ director talks social networking at Glyndwr University
“More than 100 budding businessmen and women are expected to attend the first ever pan-Wales virtual business conference at Glyndwr University.
The event, part-funded by the Welsh Assembly Government, will hear from virtual business experts and top young entrepreneurs.
John Lester, operations director at Linden Labs, founders of Second Life, is set to deliver a talk on opportunities in the virtual world from the United States via a video link-up.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world
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VMware vs. Red Hat: The Next Virtual Machine Management Battleground — ServerWatch.com
“Two areas where Thadani said he believes Red Hat’s KVM-based virtualization currently has an advantage over VMware are price and application support. Exact costs depend on the number of hosts and machines being virtualized, as well as the operating systems concerned. However, using RHEV instead of VMware could result in between 40 percent and 80 percent costs savings, he claimed. Red Hat guarantees that, because RHEV is built from the same kernel as RHEL, any Linux application that runs on RHEL will also run in a RHEL virtual machine virtualized on RHEV. If it doesn’t run properly in this way, Thadani said Red Hat will provide support to fix it so that it does.”
tags: vmware, red-hat, virtualization, kvm, rhev-h
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Novell Cloud Security Service Nears Launch | The VAR Guy
“Novell continues to push beyond the SUSE Linux market. Among the major moves: The company is beta testing Novell Cloud Security Service, which is scheduled for general availability in May or June, according to Novell sources attending the Parallels Summit in Miami. Here are the implications for hosting providers and cloud integrators.”
tags: cloud, novell, security
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Safari 4: Installing and Running it on Ubuntu Linux | Daily World Buzz
“Here’s an interesting tutorial that we would like to share with you on Daily World Buzz. It was written by Jun Auza of TechSource from Bohol. It’s a simple step by step tutorial with screenshots of how to install Safari 4 and use it in your Ubuntu Linux OS.”
tags: safari, ubuntu, linux, browser
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Microsoft Plays Catch-up — Sub-$70 Linux Virtual Desktop
“Userful Corporation, the world leader in multiseat Linux desktop virtualization, today announced that 30,000 schools worldwide have chosen Userful virtual desktops to reduce computing costs and improve computer-to-student ratios. Microsoft recently announced its own multi-seat solution, Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server 2010, seven years after Userful pioneered the technology on Linux back in 2002. Another classic case of Linux vs. Windows, only this time Linux has the upper hand with Userful having already sold 750,000 seats.”
tags: linux, desktop, virtualization
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What if content management were 3D? – FierceContentManagement
“During our conversation, I began thinking about what it would be like if someone designed a content management system in three dimensions. Think about how useful it would be to get all your company’s content laid out in front of you in a graphical view in which you could literally walk inside the system. How cool would that be?”
tags: content-management, 3d, virtual-world
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10 Ideas for Leveraging Virtual Events – Joerg Rathenberg : Target Marketing
“While more cost-effective than physical marketing events, virtual events offer another huge advantage: detailed information. As opposed to physical events, where often the only lead data consists of business card content, virtual events enable marketers to track and evaluate every move of each attendee within the environment, resulting in highly qualified sales leads.”
tags: marketing
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New World Notes: Second Life 2.0 Analysis: Epic Win for Userbase, Competition Killer… But Not Mass Market Game Changer (Yet)
“We keep using the web because we already know the answer to the why question — we use the web for destination sites, for locating information, online shopping, etc. etc. With a service that looks and acts like the world, the why question is more profound, and overwhelming. It’s why I believe an achievement system, or even an leveling ladder with experience points for exploring the world, creating content, and so on, is necessary. Not to turn Second Life into an MMO, but to give new users an activity structure that will inspire them to get the full breadth of Second Life and its possibilities.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world
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Second-day thoughts on the new Second Life viewer – Computerworld Blogs
“And search won’t solve the what-to-do problem. The only solution is to connect newcomers with like-minded people. The best communication mechanism for Second Life is the oldest one on the planet: Word of mouth. You find out about things because your friends tell you about them.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world
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Five essential design sites | Create | Creative Notes | Macworld
“When it comes to working on creative projects, even professional designers need a little help now and then. There’s no shortage of Web sites they can turn to for visual inspiration and advice. And, for the most part, civilians like me can take advantage of those very same resources. Whether I need specific technical instruction or just some good ideas, these five sites are where I turn to first.”
tags: design
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The Apache Software Foundation Announces the 15th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server : The Apache Software Foundation Blog
“The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) — developers, stewards, and incubators of 138 Open Source projects — today announced the 15th anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server.
The ASF’s first project became the world’s most popular Web server software within the first six months of its inception. The Apache HTTP Server today powers nearly 112 million Websites world-wide.”
tags: software, apache, open-source
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Red Hat News | Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A Decade-Shaping Technology
“Last week, eWEEK Labs published their picks for the top 25 technologies that changed the decade. They judged their selections on the impact the technologies had on the past 10 years, while also considering the affect that these technologies will have on the future of IT. Among the winners – which included innovative technologies such as the iPhone, the Blackberry, Blade Servers and Bluetooth – was our leading operating platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”
tags: linux, red-hat
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A handbook for the open source way, written the open source way | opensource.com
“Write a book about building community the open source way… and write it with a community, the open source way. Meaning, open the text up, allow interested users to contribute, and see what happens.
Brilliant.
The book is entitled The Open Source Way: Creating and nurturing communities of contributors and you can access the current text here and the wiki for contributors here.
I caught up with Karsten Wade, who is leading the project, to learn more.”
tags: open-source, books
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The Open Source Way – Red Hat
“This guide is for helping people to understand how to and how not to engage with community over projects such as software, content, marketing, art, infrastructure, standards, and so forth. It contains knowledge distilled from years of Red Hat experience.”
tags: red-hat, open-source, community
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Julian Lombardi’s Blog: Better Cover Your Assets
“I really liked Metaplace and used it as part of my virtual worlds course here at Duke last semester. I’m so relieved that the shutdown happened between semesters! I’m also relieved that I didn’t invest much time in building Metaplace-based educational environments for my students (which I was seriously considering). The rapid fall of Metaplace really underscores that any effort to invest in a platform where content (or the organization of content) is stored on a third party’s servers is a very risky proposition.”
tags: virtual-world
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For Developers (The Chromium Projects)
“Find information about how Chromium works, how to participate in the development of Chromium, or just how to build it yourself.”
tags: Chromium, open-source
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OOoCon 2010
“The 2010 OpenOffice.org Conference will take place from August 31st to September 3rd in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.”
tags: ooocon, openoffice.org
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MISYS Open Source Solutions Enters Strategic Partnership with Markit – MarketWatch
“Misys Open Source Solutions (“MOSS”), a division of Misys Plc (FTSE:MSY.L), today announced a partnership with Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, to promote the Misys Environmental Registry System (“MERS”), the new carbon management emissions reporting solution that will be released March 31, 2010.”
tags: open-source, environment
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Second Life seeks mainstream adoption – Computerworld Blogs
“Viewer 2.0 is far more organized than before, and that makes it easier to use. It brings the most important functions to the surface, while less frequently used tools are hidden in menus, available when needed but not jumping out to confuse the beginner.
The top of the viewer now looks like a Web browser, with an address bar that contains the 3D coordinates of your avatar’s location, in a form resembling a URL. As with a Web browser, you can embed bookmarks (“landmarks” in Second Life jargon), in the horizontal space below the address bar.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world, viewer, browser
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Second Life 2.0: sneak peek of the new viewer : The Metaverse Journal – Virtual World News
“Overall, Linden Lab deserve kudos for delivering a significantly revamped viewer that should make using Second Life markedly easier for new residents in particular. Linden Lab have consistently stated their commitment to improving the user experience and this is one of the more concrete examples of how that is now being delivered. The proof of Viewer 2’s success will only come with widespread use, but initial impressions are positive. Of course, Linden Lab need to pull off a usability coup to ensure ongoing growth. Combined with potential improvements in grid performance, the horizon seems a little brighter than it has been in a while.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world
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Macmillan’s Future Of Textbooks Looks a Lot Like Wikipedia – DynamicBooks – Gizmodo
“More to the point, it’s a step toward electronic textbooks, and away from the bizarre economy of print textbooks. DynamicBooks textbooks, which will accessible on an computer, as well as the iPhone (and presumably the iPad) will be much—about 50%—cheaper than print textbooks, which are sold at high prices with the expectation that they’ll later be resold.”
tags: textbooks, macmillan, ebook
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A Big Victory for F/OSS: Jacobsen v. Katzer is Settled – ConsortiumInfo.org
“The result? F/OSS has achieved a significant victory that will provide comfort to developers that their expectations will be satisfied when they contribute code to a software project. This is particularly significant for projects that adopt so-called “restrictive” licenses, such as the GNU General Public License, which are intended to prevent exploitation of the work of community developers for unauthorized commercial purposes.”
tags: open-source, legal, copyright
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Neowin.net – Revealed: Office 2010 ballot screen for default file format, OOXML or ODF
“Microsoft has made several changes to a Release Candidate version of Office 2010 made available to testers recently. One change in particular prompts users whether they want to use Office Open XML (OOXML) or OpenDocument (ODF) document formats. The prompt only appears in European SKUs of Microsoft Office 2010.”
tags: microsoft, odf, ooxml
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Mike The Coder » My top 10 Gedit plugins
“Gedit can be a really awesome editor if you give it a few plugins and an open mind. Here are a few of my favorites.”
tags: open-source, editors
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Making it as an MMO blogger: The bloggers speak up part 4 – Massively
“A game developer invites you to take an all-expense-paid trip to visit their studio and review their upcoming MMO. They promise a free copy of the game and lifetime account, as well. Would you do the review? Explain why or why not.”
tags: mmorpg
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Is Second Life about to enter its “second life?” – Scoble
“First, the users remained very evangelistic. Second, corporations like IBM found other uses for its islands and kept investing (they now use these islands for training and replacements of expensive conferences). Third, the technology has been steadily improving. Fourth, the company has found new ways to bring new users in and make the experience easier to get into.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world
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Arkansas Times: Education by avatar
“When you think of Second Life (SL), a web-based, user-created virtual world where people remake their own identities, clothing, appearance and lifestyle, you might think of anti-social geeks sitting at home in their mothers’ basements, communicating with other “avatars” and creating a charmed virtual life that in no way resembles their own. And for some users you probably wouldn’t be too far off.
But what started out as a virtual universe where users can create alter egos, interact and actually participate in a virtual economy is being used by universities in Arkansas and elsewhere as a cost-effective, easy-to-use learning tool.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world
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Joe Sanchez and Leslie Jarmon – The Educators Coop » Second life Learning Curve
“This first video focuses on overcoming the learning curve in Second Life. Over the years I’ve conducted quite a bit of research in this area and i wanted to provide an avenue for current and potential teachers in Second Life to hear directly from students about their experiences.”
tags: virtual-world, video, education, second-life
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Lego creating multiplayer online game | ITworld
“The game will have multiple Lego-based worlds to be explored. Some worlds will have traditional Lego themes, such as pirates, ninjas and castles, while others will be novel for the Lego space. Users can assemble semi-completed components from these worlds into entirely new designs, or they can build new components from scratch, using standard bricks.”
tags: game, lego, virtual-world
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Red Hat Headlines Southern California Linux Expo – MarketWatch
“Red Hat, Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!rht/quotes/nls/rht (RHT 28.35, -0.83, -2.84%) , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and the Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, today announced they will deliver a keynote address and additional presentations at the eighth annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE). SCALE is one of the largest Linux conferences in the region, attracting enterprise and industry professionals along with smaller businesses, non-profit industries and Linux enthusiasts.”
tags: red-hat, conference
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Feds look for their avatars in 3-D — Federal Computer Week
“The Agriculture Department plans to award multiple contracts under a program to develop a fully-immersive, persistent 3D experience in a virtual world populated by avatars that can be customized to resemble real-life users, according to documents published on the Federal Business Opportunities Web Site.
The virtual world’s features would need to be at least as good as or better than what’s offered publicly by Second Life or World of Warcraft, according to the statement of work for the project.”
tags: virtual-world, government
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The World’s Most Expensive Island–Online – Forbes.com
“While Storey’s example is extreme, buying and selling virtual goods in videogames and virtual worlds is becoming mainstream. The virtual goods market in the U.S. is estimated to reach $1.6 billion this year, up from $1 billion in 2009, according to research firm Inside Networks. And the U.S. is just a part of the worldwide market, which some experts put as high as $10 billion; countries like China and Korea are major players.”
tags: virtual-world, entropia
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ProtonMedia Upgrades ProtoSphere, the Leading Virtual World for Business | .NET Developer’s Journal
“Today ProtonMedia released ProtoSphere v.1.4, a milestone update of the company’s market-leading 3-D virtual world for business. The new release boasts the seven major features most requested by global life sciences companies to meet their most demanding meeting, collaboration, and learning requirements”
tags: virtual-world, press-release
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OU announces Linux course – The H Open Source: News and Features
“The Open University has announced ‘Linux – an introduction’ a ten week course on the open source operating system aimed at absolute beginners.”
tags: linux, open-source, education
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Chrome OS vs Ubuntu Netbook Remix | News | TechRadar UK
“Although Chrome OS is based on Ubuntu, Google has no intention right now of targeting the mass market.
Instead, Chrome OS will be certified to run on specific hardware, which at the very least will need either an x86 or ARM CPU and a solid-state drive (SSD) for storage.”
tags: ubuntu, linux, chrome, google
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What happens to Sun’s open-source software now? – Computerworld Blogs
“In general, we know that Sun’s software product catalog will be cut back and that many Sun staffers will soon be laid off. Historically, when Oracle acquires a company, deep cuts are the rule. For example, Oracle fired about 5,000 workers after acquiring PeopleSoft. This time around, Oracle is saying that there will be only about a thousand layoffs. In particular, although no one is going on record, it’s feared that Sun’s open-source groups will take the brunt of these cuts.”
tags: open-source, sun, oracle
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RIM switching to open source WebKit – The H Open Source: News and Features
“At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Research In Motion announced an overhaul of its Blackberry phone web browser. Like the iPhone and Android systems, the new browser is WebKit based and is expected to be available on Blackberry devices later this year. in interviews Mike Lazardis, co-CEO of RIM said “You’ll see how quickly it downloads, how quickly it renders and how smooth it scrolls and zooms in”.”
tags: open-source, rim, blackberry
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Twitter Loves Open Source And Launches A Directory To Prove It – washingtonpost.com
“In recent months, there seems to be a mad rush of companies trying to one-up each other with how open-source they are. Twitter is the latest, as they have launched a directory of all the open source projects they’re currently working on and/or contributing to.The list is fairly impressive. It includes open source projects in Ruby, Scala, Java, C/C++, and other various tools.”
tags: twitter, open-source
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Mobile Platform Competition Benefits Consumers – Reviews by PC Magazine
“Over time, we’re certainly likely to see some consolidation in the smartphone OS market, because there probably isn’t room for 8 or 10 different systems. But for now, the competition is forcing the vendors into a game of leap-frog, adding new features and trying to figure out what will really make users happy. Not all the phone makers or software makers can win in that scenario, but as consumers, we all will benefit from the frenzied activity.”
tags: mobile
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Eleven is Louder: OpenSource Operating Systems
“Well, I figured that I should take an opportunity to introduce a few opensource OSs that really haven’t been in the lime light much. We all know about Linux and many of us also know about Darwin and BSD. Still some know about OpenSolaris. Which ever ones you know or don’t here’s a chance to get the scoop.”
tags: open-source, operating-system
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Discussing Unity, Realxtend, Opensim, Blue Mars and Second Life | The ARCH Network
“This blog is all about discussing architecture and design in virtual worlds – so lets discuss it! What’s up with Blue Mars? How is Architecture Islands in opensim coming along? What’s the coolest new architecture-related build in Second Life? What about Unity3D – have you tried it yet? So many platforms, so little time..”
tags: opensim, realxtend, virtual-world, architecture, second-life
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Need some space, or some help getting your architecture-related virtual world project started? | The ARCH Network
“If you’re totally new, and would like to learn more about what virtual worlds are, how they work, and the features of each platform, you can book a 2 hour workshop to help get you started. If you understand the platforms, but need help learning how to build, we can set up weekly appointments to review both basic and advanced building techniques.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world, architecture
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[Phoronix] New 3D Game Engine Targets Linux Gamers
“We were contacted last night about the developer of this new game engine (called the “AnKi Engine”) that’s supported on Linux; in fact, we’re told that’s where it’s been solely developed on Linux and that it should work on Windows but has never even been built there yet. AnKi offers deferred shading, shadow mapping, Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO), High Dynamic Range (HDR), Spherical Environment Mapping, Light Scattering, Parallax Mapping, and other OpenGL advanced features. The GPLv3 engine uses SDL, GLEW, OpenGL, and libjpeg. Not only is the engine GPLv3, but the visual assets are likely to be put under the Creative Commons, which will please many users.”
tags: linux, games, open-source
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CHART OF THE DAY: In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Microsoft’s Profit Comes From
“Microsoft is the largest, most profitable software company in the world.
And its profits are still being generated by the same engines that have driven Microsoft for years: Office, Windows, and its server division. (Meanwhile, its entertainment and devices division is only recently profitable again, and its online division is a money pit.)”
tags: microsoft
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Business & Technology | Microsoft needs big leap to catch up on smartphone technology | Seattle Times Newspaper
“At this point, just catching up would be a leap forward.
From 2008 to 2009, Microsoft’s slice of the smartphone operating-system market shrank from 13.1 percent to 10.7 percent. Meanwhile, Apple grew from 9.1 to 14.4 percent, and Google’s Android system started with half a percent and grew to 3.5 percent, according to IDC. Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry, rose to 19.6 percent from 15.6 percent.”
tags: microsoft, smartphone
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Who Is Developing KVM Linux Virtualization? — ServerWatch.com
“He said that after examining the project’s mailing list to gauge the activity taking place in KVM development, he found that there were some 884 unique participants in the mailing list, roughly equivalent to the number of active KVM developers. Those participants were spread across 382 unique address domains from somewhere in the range of 250 to 300 separate. According to Day, organizations that participate in KVM range from large corporations, to government and educational organization, as well as individual contributors.”
tags: kvm, virtualization
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Second Life official forums to be replaced Tuesday – Massively
“According to previous figures from Linden Lab staff, fewer than 700 of 18.1 million registered Second Life accounts ever participated in the official forums provided by the Lab. The partial closure of many of the most heavily trafficked areas of those forums when Lab announcements were migrated back out to the blog in 2006 did little to boost participation in the official forums.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world
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Doc or Docx? Which Office Format to Use — Microsoft Office 2007 — Doc — Docx — Microsoft Office 2003
“For those using older versions of Microsoft Word, or other non-Microsoft word processing software, the new .docx format can be a real pain. It has caused dissension in some workplaces. How to cope with conflicting Microsoft Office formats.”
tags: microsoft, docx
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Op-Ed Contributor – Microsoft’s Creative Destruction – NYTimes.com
“The problem comes when the competition becomes uncontrolled and destructive. At Microsoft, it has created a dysfunctional corporate culture in which the big established groups are allowed to prey upon emerging teams, belittle their efforts, compete unfairly against them for resources, and over time hector them out of existence. It’s not an accident that almost all the executives in charge of Microsoft’s music, e-books, phone, online, search and tablet efforts over the past decade have left.”
tags: microsoft, innovation
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How to Become a Certified BBQ Judge – Associated Content – associatedcontent.com
“Have you ever watched a BBQ cook-off on television, or gone to one of these live events and thought that judges at these events had the best job in the world? Well they do. However, to get one of these coveted non-paying positions you have to become a Certified BBQ Judge, and this article will show you just how easy it is to meet this requirement.”
tags: bbq
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BuddyPress 1.2 released | WordPressious
“BuddyPress is a bundled collection of plugins and themes for creating a social network service around an installation of the popular open source blog engine WordPress MU.”
tags: buddypress, wordpress, social-networking
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Open Luna Foundation
“The OpenLuna Foundation seeks to return mankind to the lunar surface, first through robotic missions, followed by manned exploration, culminating in an eight person permanent outpost, and to do all of this in a way that it is accessible to everyone. Our research and technology will be open-source, we are privately funded, and one of our specific goals is to reach out to the community and educational systems to spread interest, enthusiasm, and involvement.”
tags: space, luna
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Late Last Year, Google Overtook Apple In WebKit Code Commits – washingtonpost.com
“Now, the author is quick to point out the caveats of the graph (and does so for four paragraphs), and notes that he was hesitant to even publish it because of how easy it is to misinterpret. The graph, while it shows commits, doesn’t weigh more important ones versus less important ones. Nor does it in any way measure the ways in which companies or individuals contribute to WebKit in other meaningful ways. That said, it does clearly show that in late 2009, Google surpassed Apple as the company that now contributes the most (again, in terms of commits) to the project.”
tags: apple, google, chrome, safari, browser, webkit
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Where are the Linux tablets? | Linux and Open Source | TechRepublic.com
“The Linux and open source community does not want to find itself back where it was in the mid-to-late 90’s, where it was relegated to servers and the desktops of fan-boys and uber-geeks. This is not where Linux wants to be. The last five years has blessed Linux with so much growth. But if Linux can not gain a foothold in the tablet PC market, that growth could wither away.”
tags: linux, tablet
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A fresher Linux desktop
“It’s been a long time in the coming but this year Linux will get a makeover, thanks to the Gnome project. In September the Gnome team, makers of one of the most popular desktop interfaces for Linux, will release version 3.0 of their desktop environment and they are promising “big user-visible changes”.”
tags: linux, gnome
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Open source industry veteran Matt Asay joins Canonical as chief operating officer | Ubuntu
“Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that open source industry veteran Matt Asay has joined the company as chief operating officer (COO) — responsible for aligning strategic goals and operational activities, the optimization of day-to-day operations, and leadership of Canonical marketing and back-office functions.”
tags: canonical, ubuntu, linux, alfresco
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WordPress For Blackberry 1.0 Launches, Puts The iPhone App To Shame « BloggingPro
“Right after WordPress launched their Android app, the WP crew finished the final touches on their Blackberry app that rivals the one they built upon Google’s mobile OS.”
tags: wordpress, blackberry
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What Second Life can teach your datacenter about scaling Web apps
“Most of this information is based on my experience working on Second Life at Linden Lab from 2001 to 2009. SL is a highly complex virtual world, incorporating the features of Web services, online games, 3D modeling and programming tools, IM and VOIP, and so on. Between 2006 and 2007, the userbase grew dramatically, and while it has become more manageable, it continues to grow today. We ran into all manner of scaling challenges, and had mixed success meeting them; ultimately SL did grow to meet the new levels of demand, but we certainly made some mistakes, and there were periods where the reliability of the system really suffered.”
tags: second-life, datacenter
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Hands-on: new single-window mode makes GIMP less gimpy
“(GIMP) is undergoing a significant transformation. The next major release, version 2.8, will introduce an improved user interface with an optional single-window mode. Although this update is still under heavy development, users can get an early look by compiling the latest source code of the development version from the GIMP’s version control repository.”
tags: gimp, linux
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Virtual Worlds – Best Practices in Education » 2010 Call for Proposals / Poster Sessions
“The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VW-BPE) is a community-based conference that provides opportunities for participants of virtual worlds to share current teaching, learning and research practices in 3D virtual environments. Conference presentations focus on teaching/learning, scholarly work, projects, events, activities and new and innovative tools for virtual education. Conference presenters’ focus on the identification of ‘best practices in education’ designed for 3D virtual world technology.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world, education
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What to Expect at LinuxCon 2010 this August in Boston! | The Linux Foundation
“How is LinuxCon different than other events? In a number of ways. This is an event specific to the Linux community, but within that, it encompasses all matters Linux. Other events specifically target certain groups in the ecosystem, but LinuxCon is the only event that really brings together a diverse group of all types of industry leaders and contributors – from business executives and end users, to developers (both in the kernel and out), to the systems administrators and senior technology operations leaders. “
tags: linuxcon, linux
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LinuxCon 2010 Call for Papers – The H Open Source: News and Features
“The Linux Foundation has announced that the Call for Papers deadline for LinuxCon 2010 will be the 31st of March. Registration for the non-profit organisation’s second annual conference, which will take place from the 10th to the 12th of August, 2010 in Boston Massachusetts, is now open.”
tags: linux
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The Top 7 Best Linux Distributions for You | Linux.com
“To help users discover the Linux distribution that’s best for them, this resource will definitively list the best candidates for the various types of Linux users to try.”
tags: linux
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Facebook re-write takes PHP to an enterprise past • The Register
“The site’s engineers have announced HipHop, which turns the popular and dynamic PHP code into highly optimized but static C++ and then compiles it using the GNU C++ compiler, g++. The change has been released to the community under the PHP license, and you can read more here.”
tags: php, facebook
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Virtual Worlds – Best Practices in Education » 2010 Call for Proposals / Poster Sessions
“The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VW-BPE) is a community-based conference that provides opportunities for participants of virtual worlds to share current teaching, learning and research practices in 3D virtual environments. Conference presentations focus on teaching/learning, scholarly work, projects, events, activities and new and innovative tools for virtual education. Conference presenters’ focus on the identification of ‘best practices in education’ designed for 3D virtual world technology.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world, education
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SAIC Purchases Simulation & Collaboration Product Line From Forterra Systems Inc.
“Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) today announced it has purchased Forterra Systems Inc.’s On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment (OLIVE(TM)) product line, including all names, trademarks and licenses.”
tags: forterra, virtual-world
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NZ Post to Try Linux Desktop | BlackBerry Developer’s Journal
“The New Zealand Post is one of three government agencies looking to rip out their Windows desktops and replace them with Linux and open source applications.”
tags: linux, open-source, new-zealand
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Advice on building a Linux box
“In this article I am going to show you how I go about putting together a machine that will use the Linux operating system. I understand that this type of topic is very subjective, so there will be plenty of disagreements. But that is part of the fun and the reason why we have comments available on this site. So, without further adieu, let’s get to building.”
tags: linux
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Good News and Bad News : Wonderblog
“I know everyone likes to get the bad news over with first, so I’ll start with that. We found out on Friday that development resources are no longer being applied to Project Wonderland. “
tags: virtual-world
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Why the iPad is a game-changer for virtual environments : The Metaverse Journal – Virtual World News
“What I do want to discuss, with as little fanboyishness as possible, is how I see the iPad being a real landmark in the ongoing growth of virtual words:”
tags: ipad, virtual-world, second-life
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Virtual Worlds News: Linden Launching New Premium Subscription Service
“The program, in a limited beta since last month, provides a virtual home to all premium members along with a free plot of virtual land and monthly stipend of Linden dollars. “
tags: second-life, virtual-world
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Engage! Expo – February 16-17, 2010 – New York City
“Engage!® Conference and Expo is the definitive event on youth entertainment technology. Taking place February 16-17, 2010 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City, this year’s Engage covers the critical information you need to deeply connect with and generate revenue from youth and parents online and on mobile devices. Coverage includes social games, virtual goods, virtual worlds, branded apps and online-offline toys.”
tags: conference, virtual-world
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Virtual Worlds News: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Licenses To Second Life Museum
“A Frank Lloyd Wright Museum has been in operation in Second Life for six months [SLURL]. Now, though, it’s officially working in partnership with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation under the new name of the Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum, incorporating in the U.S., and seeking official non-profit status. “
tags: second-life, architecture
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Apple iPad: Will it run Second Life? – Computerworld Blogs
“As a Second Life enthusiast, I really want the iPad to run Second Life. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t. As my friend Wagner James Au points out on the blog New World Notes, the iPhone already has a couple of rich, text-only Second Life clients, and the iPad now has the horsepower and screen size to support Second Life graphics.”
tags: second-life, ipad, apple
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7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators
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To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 7 high quality Linux calculator tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone who wants more functionality offered by simple calculators such as gcalctool (the default calculator provided with Gnome).
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