Posts Tagged ‘social’

Zombies, Open Source, and Bad Analogies

People love good analogies, especially if they have a bit of humor about them. Such is the zombies are open source, humans are proprietary analogy Amy Vernon wrote about on NetworkWorld a few weeks ago. Speaking of zombies, old stories are never truly dead.

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Zombies, Open Source, and Bad Analogies

Why Open Alternatives Are Bound To Challenge Facebook

If you haven’t been following the tale of the new open alternative to Facebook, you really must check in. In the wake of widespread dissatisfaction with Facebook’s handling of privacy issues, four New York University students, who were already working on an open social networking solution, have raised over $115,000 in funding for their offering: Diaspora .

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Why Open Alternatives Are Bound To Challenge Facebook

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Guest Post: PayPal’s Praveen Alavilli on Web Payments and Funding

On March 19th, in conjunction with PayPalX, Sun Microsystems, Embarkons.com and session sponsor Cooley Godward Kronish, developers, lawyers and financers will be gathering at the Peer Financing for Developers conference in Menlo Park, California. The goal of the conference is to examine new and innovative approaches to peer financing of projects.The half day conference will take place at Sun Microsystems’ campus,and interested attendees can get tickets at peerfinancing.eventbrite.com . As a follow-up to OStatic’s initial guest post related to the conference, Praveen Alavilli, developer evangelist for the PayPal X Developer Network, has provided a guest post on how PayPal is attempting to help developers finance projects

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Guest Post: PayPal’s Praveen Alavilli on Web Payments and Funding

The Scoop on LibrePlanet: Interview with Deborah Nicholson of the FSF

The Free Software Foundation is gearing up for a big event March 19th through 21st to be held in Cambridge, Mass. at Harvard’s University Science Center. LibrePlanet 2010 is a three day event with workshops on using free software for everything from Web development to video editing and graphics

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The Scoop on LibrePlanet: Interview with Deborah Nicholson of the FSF