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Is Open Source the new black?

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Live cross-platform mobile gaming arrives → Is Open Source the new black? July 15th, 2010 · View Comments It seems as if Open Source is becoming fashionable, particularly when it comes to maps.

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25 Major News Sites Ranked By Page Speed

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 25 Major News Sites Ranked by Page Speed by Adam Sherk on April 13, 2010 Now that site speed is officially a Google ranking factor, site performance and page load time are important for SEO as well as usability. So how well do major news sites perform in these areas?

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An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction

Adam Sherk

Daniel November 5, 2009 at 6:06 pm Also, how comfortable will news organizations be linking to other sources? To reporters’ sources? If we’re truly in an era of open-source journalism, I say reporters share their access (sort of) to sources via Twitter lists.

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Google Wave fails to cause a splash

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The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. ’ from The Official Google Blog.

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One potential USP for Diaspora

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And with the open source and distributed, open approach to data, it could be made easy for consumers and companies to hook up using Diaspora as a platform and channel, rather than having to be within the social network itself. Maybe that would give both movements more leverage?

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Open Software – from watches to newspapers

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Open Software – from watches to newspapers July 5th, 2010 · View Comments One of the most interesting trends of recent years has been the way that increasing openness has been embraced by a growing number of proprietary business who realise that they probably can’t come up with all the great ideas for a product.

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Is Xbox Live better than golf for digital business networking?

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Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Open Software – from watches to newspapers Is Open Source the new black? July 14th, 2010 · View Comments I’ve never managed to get into golf as a sport, but I’ve often been made aware of it as a useful social gathering for business people to get together.