Plaxo helps open up social graph
As part of its ongoing support for the open social web as an alternative to walled gardens, Plaxo released to open source the code for an important new piece of software, an Online Identity...
View ArticleYahoo! commits to Apache Software Foundation as sponsor
Yahoo! Inc. announced that it has become a platinum sponsor of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Continuing its dedication to open and collaborative computing and research, Yahoo!’s financial...
View ArticleRibbit is not just another phone company
Ribbit, Silicon Valley’s first phone company and a new platform for developing Web-based voice applications, has formally launched today. Combining the power of Web-based VoIP and open development...
View ArticleTorvalds likens Linux development to a social network
Linus Torvalds, the Linux project coordinator who has written 2% of the Linux code, compares open source development to social networks where trust and relationship are the primary drivers of...
View ArticleHow Google Chrome OS Will Handle Web Security
Before you get drown into the waves of news items explaining what Google Chrome is and what it is not, let’s not forget one of its most  important feature  which might make it click among Internet...
View ArticleMusic App Songbird Now Lets You Sync iPod and Rip CDs
I remember using  the free music app Songbird a long time ago but didn’t quite fully maximized its features.  In fact, I thought the app was no longer existing until now that I learned about its...
View ArticleHP’s WebOS Now Open Source
Hewlett Packard’s exit from the tablet market was quite a jolt even though a lot of people already predicted that it was inevitable. One of the fallouts of HP’s move was that the operating system...
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