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Daily Links for Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Politics / Government Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government With this notice, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within the Executive Office of the President, requests input from the community regarding … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Politics / Government
Tagged Chrome, Google, Linux, Mozilla, Thunderbird
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Daily Links for Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Macintosh Official Google Mac Blog: Google Chrome for Mac goes beta! Official Google Mac Blog 73,804 lines of Mac-specific code and 29 developer builds later, we’re excited to finally release Google Chrome for Mac in beta. We took a hefty … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Open Source An Open Source Tool for Every Task School Library Journal / Steve Hargadon Following are some of the most popular OSS applications for schools. All are freely available, requiring no license fees, and can be loaded on an … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Software, Standards, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Google, Microsoft, OpenSim
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Life with Linux: Google Earth
As I continue to work and play with Linux on the desktop, I try new things, keep a few, and toss out even more. Here’s a keeper. I started using this on Windows (ancient history), then on the Mac, and … Continue reading
On tagging, especially for photos
Several years ago after my mother died, I started a big project to get all the family photos digitized and online. Since then I’ve done the photos for our immediate family, but I still have more to do, especially on … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Open Source Windows 7 on netbooks: Maybe it’s not a Linux killer ComputerWorld / Preston Gralla I’ve frequently written that Windows 7 will kill Linux on netbooks. But given that most Windows 7-equipped netbooks ship with the underwhelming Starter Edition, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, November 6, 2009
Macintosh Switchers Guide: Moving from Windows to the Mac Macworld / Harry McCracken Moving from a Windows PC to a Mac–at the office or at home–presents the same kinds of opportunities and challenges. It requires some up-front effort: Transferring your … Continue reading
Daily Links for Sunday, November 1, 2009
Software Microsoft to indirectly fund L.A.’s switch to Google Apps Seattle Post-Intelligencer / Nick Eaton Talk about irony. Of the $7.2 million the Los Angeles city government will be spending to switch its e-mail system to Google Apps, $1.5 million … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Cloud Amazon Offers MySQL Cloud Service, Cuts Server Fees InformationWeek / John Foley In a preemptive strike at Microsoft, Amazon Web Services offers a relational database in the cloud, high-memory configurations, and cuts hourly fees for its Windows and Linux … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, October 9, 2009
Software September 2009 browser stats: IE sees biggest drop yet Ars Technica / Emil Protalinski Another month, another set of data that shows the main browser usage trend is unchanged: though its lead remains large, Internet Explorer is still losing … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Open Source The Open Source Initiative’s corporate status is suspended: a CAOS Theory Q&A 451 CAOS Theory / Matthew Aslett The ability of the Open Source Initiative to steward the Open Source Definition and police the use of the term … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Apache, browser, Chrome, Google, Linux, OSI, Second Life
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Daily Links for August 24, 2009 – Evening Edition
Macintosh Apple to Release Snow Leopard on August 28 PC World “The wait for Snow Leopard is over: on Monday, Apple announced that the latest version of its Mac OS X operating system would be available starting Friday, August 28. … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 7, 2009
Linux and Sun IBM: UNIX to Linux Migration Rate Growing “Inna Kuznetsova, Director, Linux Strategy, led the meeting attended by IT analysts and painted a telling picture of what IBM’s Linux business has been in recent months: in short, strong … Continue reading
Quote applying to Google Chrome OS?
All the media attention on Google Chrome OS reminds me of this Woody Allen quote: Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into … Continue reading
Backups
It’s well known that you should back up your data. If your hard disk crashes, it can be a major problem to recover your information. On my Mac I use Time Machine with an external hard disk. This is better … Continue reading
Open source and the lone developer
It occurred to be this morning when I was stuck in traffic that although a lot has been written about open source development for communities, much less is out there for the lone developer. This is the person who labors … Continue reading
Google Friend Connect
Those of you who are reading this on my website might notice that there is a new box in the upper right hand corner. This is a membership box for the beta Google Friend Connect program. Feel free to join, … Continue reading
Daily Links 11/20/2008 (p.m.)
Christian Renaud’s Weblog: Lively heads for the giraffe graveyard “Google announced yesterday on their blog that they are shuttering the Lively project. This is unfortunate for multiple reasons” tags: OB, Google, Lively InternetNews Realtime IT News – Sun Expands MySQL … Continue reading
Daily Links 11/20/2008 (a.m.)
Lively – 3D Avatars and Rooms [Via Mitch Wagner] “After careful consideration, we have decided to shut down Lively.” tags: OB, NP, Google, Lively, virtual worlds 9 Underrated Technologies For Growing Companies | Open Source “As open source has matured … Continue reading
Searching for document formats
I just read the article in InformationWeek called “Microsoft’s Search Share Continues To Decline”. I use Google search almost exclusively but occasionally I poke around on the other engines to see if they turn up anything interesting. While Microsoft did … Continue reading
links for 2008-03-17
Scoop: InternetNZ supports Vint Cerf’s rejection of OOXML “InternetNZ (the Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) strongly supports calls from Internet pioneer Vint Cerf opposing Microsoft’s proposed OOXML (Office Open XML) document standard.” (tags: ooxml) U.S. Supreme Court rejects Microsoft … Continue reading
links for 2008-03-12
Yahoo warming up to OpenSocial; Facebook staying cool | Outside the Lines – CNET News.com “According to the New York Times, Yahoo is expected to join the group that includes MySpace, Plaxo, Bebo, Hi5, Orkut, LinkedIn, Six Apart, Oracle, salesforce.com … Continue reading
Google statement on OOXML
(My del.icio.us daily link posting appears to be broken, so I’m doing a separate entry on this.) See “A renewed wish for open document standards” by Zaheda Bhorat, Open Source Programs Manager, Google.
links for 2008-01-31
Open Source OpenLogic: HP hogged FOSS limelight | InfoWorld | News | 2008-01-29 | By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service “Grandchamp also said he has received phone calls and e-mail regarding whether HP is now competing with OpenLogic, which makes … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Macintosh, News, Open Source
Tagged France, Google, Linux, ODF, Ubuntu
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Google ads on this site
As you know if you visit this site, I have Google ads running. I’m not getting rich via them but they help defray the cost of the site. Anyway, sometimes an ad will show up for something that is really … Continue reading
links for 2008-01-14
Google Exodus a Symptom of ‘Superbowl Syndrome’ “With the recent exits of top executives and product managers from Google, is the hippest company in town losing out to bureaucracy?” (tags: Google) EU launches new probe against Microsoft – Yahoo! News … Continue reading
links for 2007-11-26
Real Estate Growing number of foreclosures creates a new scam – The Boston Globe “The National Consumer Law Center estimates that thousands of troubled borrowers across the country were victimized in the last few years.” (tags: realestate) Where Mansions Go … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Entertainment, News, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Google, Guitar, Linux, OOXML, real estate
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Facebook: How open should they be?
Normally I would just post this in my del.icio.us links, but Dan Farber of ZDNet has a very good blog entry about the dilemma that Facebook faces in light of the Google-led OpenSocial effort announced last week: “Facebook’s dilemma: To … Continue reading
links for 2007-11-02
OpenSocial OpenSocial opens new can of worms | CNET News.com “When Google announced that its new social-networking initiative would extend to any site that wanted to participate, the land grab for the social Web’s attention just got a whole lot … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Politics / Government, Web 2.0
Tagged Facebook, Google, Linux, Microsoft, MySpace, OpenSocial, Solaris, Sun
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links for 2007-09-26
Google’s Virtual World Could Be Business Answer To Second Life – Google Blog – InformationWeek “As if Google (GOOG) isn’t pervasive enough, it looks like the search-engine company is planning to launch its own virtual world, which will compete with … Continue reading
