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06 July 2006
A Time There Was
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I've noted before how mashups depend upon the existence of some kind of mesh ; typically this is geographical (which is why so many mash...
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The Behemoth Bends to ODF
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Wow: it looks like Microsoft has finally admitted that ODF is now too big to ignore. According to the C|net story : Microsoft said it plan...
05 July 2006
From the Commons to...Managed Parks?
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One of the areas where the commons is being increasingly invoked is that of radio spectrum, the idea being that there can be frequencies &qu...
Jimbo's Wikipolitics
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Jimmy Wales, (co)-founder of Wikipedia has launched Campaigns Wikia , part of his new Wikia site, the commercial arm of Wikipedia. As the ...
The Commons Rising
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A little while back I wrote about the On The Commons site. It's now launched a new introduction to the area: The Commons Rising is a...
Who Ya Gonna Call? Patentbusters!
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This blog has lamented often and loudly about the idiotic patents being granted, principally in the US (but with the EU trying very hard to ...
Wikifying Search with Swickis
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Swickis are an interesting idea. As their mother-ship, Eurekster , explains : A swicki is new kind of search engine that allows anyone to c...
The Curse of the Open Source IPO
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There's a nice round-up of open source IPOs by Matthew Aslett. I'm not sure Trolltech really counts as a full open source company...
ODF in MA: Open and Shut?
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The roller-coaster ride of ODF in Massachusetts continues. After the extraordinary blasting the decision had received, which seemed to pla...
Another One Bites the (GNU GPL) Dust
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Univention is not a company I'd heard of before; apparently , Univention GmbH offers a range of Linux-based products and services. Our c...
04 July 2006
My Bardolatry Out in the Open
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I'm not really sure what this Open Shakespeare project is trying to achieve that hasn't already been done. No matter: if it's ...
The Dark Side of Eclipse
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Eclipse has finished last as far as quality of features are concerned in a survey of developers conducted by Evans Data Corp, and reported ...
Are Coders Beginning to Get the Message?
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The Reg has a good summary of the European Commission's initial findings from its public consultation on Europe's patent system. ...
Blake Ross On Microsoft's Great Culpability
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There's a fine interview with Blake Ross , one of the prime movers behind Firefox, from Seattle PI . Mostly it's just sensible stu...
A Phlock of Photobuckets
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The Flock browser is an interesting idea - a re-imagining of the Firefox engine for a Web 2.0 world. Of course, if you don't like that...
Wine is Not the Only Fruit
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Many people have heared about Wine - which describes itself as follows: Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of ...
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Fine Microsoft? Fine: But It's Pointless
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According to The New York Times , the EU is about to thump Microsoft to the tune of a couple of million a day. I say: quite right, too. A...
03 July 2006
Plugging Away at ODF Plug-ins
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According to this article , there are plenty of people beavering away on plug-ins for Microsoft Office to allow users to open and save files...
My Old Dutch
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From the fine people that brought us Rembrandt van Rijn and Joost van den Vondel , now some sensible thoughts on the iniquitous EU directi...
Of Blogs and Bears
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Things are getting seriously dotcom dotty in the world of blogs, with silly money flowing rather too easily into blogs whose long-term poten...
Tuning in to the University Channel
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Open courseware is an exciting application of openness in the educational context, that is about distributing courseware. The University C...
02 July 2006
NeoOffice Lets Mac Users Choose the Red Pill
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One of the great strengths of open source is its ability to offer cross-platform solutions. As a result, users can switch between Windows a...
Carnival of the Bioinformaticians
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A little while back I wrote about the blog-form of carnivals. At the time, Pedro Beltrão said he was about to start a new one, devoted to...
The Economics of Security
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In his lastest Wired column , Bruce S. is writing about a subject particularly dear to my heart: the economics of security. He was lucky e...
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Will RFID Go Phut?
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Many people have expressed concerns about the privacy implications of Radio Frequency Identification ( RFID ) technology. But until now, RF...
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