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Is Open Source the new black?

The Way of the Web

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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The CIA is Watching Your Every Tweet

Freelance Social Media

“It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.&# Featuring the Thesis Wufoo Skin WordPress Admin

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4 WordPress Alternatives: the What, Where, and Why

ProBlogger

As bloggers, we’re all familiar with WordPress, whether as a self-hosted setup, or via WordPress.com. If you do a Google search for “ blogging software ,” WordPress will likely be among the first results you’ll see. concerned WordPress is not meeting your needs. Disqus integration for commenting. moving hosts.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Step 2: Build Your Home Base I have practically made a living utilizing open source software to fulfill all my web needs. Blogging Hands down, WordPress is THE blogging solution. Sure there are others, but WordPress is so damn good, I won’t even pretend to mention other solutions.

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Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison)

The Marketing Blog

The only other place where Facebook scores over Twitter is on the Disqus platform but there also it is a close fight b/w the two. On other platforms like Youtube, Friendfeed and WordPress ‘Twitter’ dominates. . ‘Facebook’ being a closed platform the community considers it as a friend focussed channel.

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Open Software – from watches to newspapers

The Way of the Web

And then open-source it to developers to come up with amazing ideas for what could be displayed there, rather than trying to think of them all. Dubbed the Ben Franklin project, it’s involved using a variety of tools – for instance, WordPress as a publishing platform, or GIMP for image editing.

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My Gov 2.0 Heroes

Social Media Strategery

Heroes: Don Burke/Sean Dennehy December 2006 – that’s when I read “ Open-Source Spying &# by Clive Thompson. Powered by Wordpress. Without the following people, I can say that I probably wouldn’t be writing this blog post, working in my current position, or even living where I am today. The Whole. :

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