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May 20th, 2010 
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Directly on the heels of the announcement by Google of its new royalty-free video format, WebM , adjunct announcements are pouring in showing far-reachng support for the new format. With Google open sourcing the underlying VP8 codec technology that it acquired from On2 in February, the combination of openness and third-party support could make WebM a healthy competitor for formats such as H.264.
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Support Spreads Out For Google’s WebM Video Format
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Tags: blu-ray, kaltura, mips, Open, open-source, opera, President, still-kicking, video, webm, wikipedia 
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As GigaOM reports today , NorthScale Inc., which offers data management technology surrounding the open source memcached caching project , has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Mayfield Fund, and previous investors Accel Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners. The company’s total funding is now at $15 million. Memcached is used by many web sites, including Wikipedia, Twitter and Flickr.
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NorthScale, Focused on Memcached, Gets $10 Million In Funding
Posted in Open Source News Tags: cache-aims, caching-project, data-management, find-out-more, flickr-find, learn-more, mayfield-fund, north, northscale, wikipedia No Comments » April 30th, 2010 Admin |
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, says that a large part of the success of Wikipedia is due to taking an open approach to content, as GigaOM reports . The widely used “open-source encyclopedia” has grown to the point where it now includes 3.2 million articles.
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Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales On Being Open
Posted in Open Source News Tags: danese-cooper, doing-something, downsides, end-item, Interview, jimmy wales, open-approach, Success, wales, wikipedia No Comments » March 22nd, 2010 Admin
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I’d like to see more bad English on mailing lists, and fewer apologies from non-native speakers about their poor English skills. There’s nothing to be ashamed of in trying to communicate in a second, third, or fourth language and not being an expert. And it’d be a shame if non-native speakers let fear or embarrassment hold them back from making a vital contribution or asking a question that could help them succeed in contributing or using FLOSS tools
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More Bad English, Please
Posted in Open Source News Tags: english, english-several, estimation, Language, linux, open-source, opportunity, people, proficiency, spread-the-word, static-buffer, time, wikipedia No Comments » March 19th, 2010 Admin
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Wikipedia has become famous, or perhaps infamous, for its intolerance of new content.
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Is Wikipedia’s "Deletionism" Out of Control?
Posted in Open Source News Tags: deletionist, deletionists, Desktop, dwm, end-item, post-review, Reference, source, source-projects, traditional, wiki, wikimedia-hires, wikipedia, wikipedia-logo No Comments »
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