Education for the Open Web Fellowship Deadline Approaching

The Mozilla Foundation and Shuttleworth Foundation have teamed up to offer a one-year fellowship to develop approaches to education people how to promote the open Web. Got all that? Time’s wasting, the deadline is on June 7th.

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Education for the Open Web Fellowship Deadline Approaching

Is OpenOffice Drifting Dangerously?

Dana Blankenhorn notes that OpenOffice.org is “drifting,” which certainly seems to be true, although we’ve pointed out that it is definitely still kicking . Without a doubt, now that Oracle has swallowed up Sun Microsystems and is, by default, the new steward of the world’s most popular open source suite of productivity applications, there are questions to be asked about the future of OpenOffice

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Will Microsoft Crumble In The New Era Of Tech Threats?

Recently, numerous posts have been found on the web heralding the end of Microsoft, in a world where cloud-based initiatives are gaining traction, and Microsoft is seen as not grokking the cloud. One of the more visible of these arguments came from Marc Benioff , Salesforce.com’s outspoken chairman and CEO, who was previously a top executive at Oracle

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On Who Will Build the LAMP Cloud

As we covered last week , Zend Technologies, whose founders created the PHP language, just got another $9 million in funding.

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Molecubes – Open Source Modular Robotics [molecubes.org]


Molecubes, an open source modular robotics platform. This video is an example of what Molecubes can do. In this example a tractor like robot is quickly assembled from Molecubes and a sequence of motion is evolved and executed.