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I've Used Bluesky for 6 Months – Here's What You Should Know

Buffer Social

Among them is Bluesky , which is a decentralized, invite-only social network built on an open-source protocol  (I’ll explain what this means even though I barely understand it myself). Bluesky is definitely worth exploring, especially if you’re after a platform that feels like Twitter. Should you join Bluesky?

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Why I Don’t Know My Password

Ari Herzog

I use an open-source password manager called Bitwarden that creates the passwords and auto-logs me into websites that require them. Now, it doesn’t matter if I’m logging into Facebook or the Washington Post because while I usually know my username, I definitely don’t know my password.

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7 Linux Alternatives to Common Windows Business Applications

BeingOptimist

LibreOffice is completely free and open source and is actually a successor to the popular OpenOffice, which got its last update in 2014. If you’re a student studying something like Aston University’s MSC Finance and Management , you’ll definitely need something like LibreOffice. Mozilla Thunderbird.

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Lost in translation: Upleveling Sprout Social’s localization system

Sprout Social

For years, the Sprout engineering team got by with a custom localization solution, since open source solutions were still maturing. React-intl was the most feature-rich and popular open source localization library in the javascript ecosystem and integrated well into our codebase. How did we migrate?

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Leverage Multi-Social Media Platforms to Tell Stories

Direct Marketing Observations

Transmedia is a cool word, and though I’ve not used it that much, the important line or word for me from the above ethereal definition is this. It’s all about story telling. A good friend once told me that we shouldn’t sell as much as we should tell stories , and you know what? He’s right. We should tell more stories. Rich stories.

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12 of the Best Free Stock Video Websites for Great Footage

Hootsuite

Okay, it’s not a collection of thousands or millions of clips, but maybe there’s something among the hundreds of open-source 4K royalty-free stock video clips here that will tickle your fancy. Mazwai describes its free stock footage and moving images as “hand-picked,” though it doesn’t really specify by who.

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Apple vs Microsoft: Tablet Market Clash between iPad and Windows 8

Idaconcpts

But the open source firmware enjoys a clear edge over iPad in escalating popularity. Definitely, it will be iOS 6. So as to promptly gain ground in market with enough apps, Microsoft has even allowed third party open source developers to post apps on Windows Store.

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