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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The key here is making the mechanics of the social networks transparent. From looking at the software development world: an open source product can benefit from ongoing enhanced security. For example: the apache server, since its code is open any attacker can analyze it, search for loopholes and devise an attack.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The problem has been growing for about 20 years as more and more products and services have become commoditized–and Google is the ultimate example with free search. And then they justify it by saying “well I’m a big fan of the open source movement!&# Yeah, but doesn’t the Open Source movement get funded?

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The software development community -- especially the open source community -- has long used "bounties" to help lure developers to certain tasks. Cofundos.org is focused specifically on open source software, but the team behind it has indicated that they plan to adapt the concept to other areas, including beyond software development.