• Future, MP3, Open Source, The Greater Good

  OpenTape - A decentralized sign of things to come

  08.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  At its face, OpenTape (see “My OpenTape” sidebar, right) appears to be nothing more than a plain ol’ music list. Yet, such simplicity should not detract from what it truly represents — a harbinger of the decentralized web to come.  Knowingly or unknowingly, internet users are currently in the midst of a pivotal fight to pry away control from biased and greedy media conglomerates.  The purpose is not to become an overnight video sensation, a copyright thief, or a machine of self-promotion…the drive is towards a democratic web wherein all users control the digital life stream.  OpenTape comes on the heels of RIAA actions against the now defunct Muxtape and the still treading Pandora.  By open sourcing Muxtape’s functionality, OpenTape has provided users greater control, just as Indenti.ca and Wordpress who preceded it.  The walled gardens are being scaled and the clouds are slowly dispersing; the vision is becoming ever so clear: a web where the public will host their own open sourced, decentralized applications.  Furthering the cause, are the impending public releases of buddypress and sweetcron.

• Amazon, Beta, Data in the Cloud, Development, Google, Internet, Open Source

  Google App Engine

  04.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  

   

  Run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure.

  Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.

  No assembly required. Google App Engine provides a fully-integrated application environment.

  It’s easy to scale. Google App Engine makes it easy to build scalable applications that grow from one user to millions of users without infrastructure headaches.

  It’s free to get started. Every Google App Engine application can use up to 500MB of persistent storage and enough bandwidth and CPU for 5 million monthly page views.

• A.I., Algorithms, Open Source, Search, Semantic Web, Wikipedia

  Wikia Search - the Open Source Search Engine - alpha launches

  01.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Wikia is working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine. What you see here is our first alpha release.

  We are aware that the quality of the search results is low.

  Wikia’s search engine concept is that of trusted user feedback from a community of users acting together in an open, transparent, public way. Of course, before we start, we have no user feedback data. So the results are pretty bad. But we expect them to improve rapidly in coming weeks, so please bookmark the site and return often.

  Right now, the most important thing you can do is help with the “mini articles” that appear at the top of popular search terms. These will vary in purpose according to the circumstance, but the primary uses will be:

  • Short definitions
  • Disambiguations
  • Photos
  • See also

  At the bottom of every page is a link to Post bug reports. Please use that link liberally to give us large amounts of feedback.

  Search is a fundamental part of the infrastructure of the Internet, and therefore it can and should be done in an open, objective, accountable way. This site, which we have been working on for a long time now, represents the first draft of the future of search.

  Please feel free to join us, make some friends, and let’s try to do something friendly, interesting, and different.

• Future, Hack, Innovation, Nintendo, Open Source, Wii

  Open Source Wii Applications in 2008?

  01.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  
  
  

• Blogs, Development, Microsoft, Open Source

  Microsoft to Open Source .Net

  10.03.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  From Scott Gu’s Blog: One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries, and to easily enable debugging support in them. Today I’m excited to announce that we’ll be providing this with the .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 release later this year.

  We’ll begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections, System.Configuration, System.Threading, System.Net, System.Security, System.Runtime, System.Text, etc), ASP.NET (System.Web), Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms), ADO.NET (System.Data), XML (System.Xml), and WPF (System.Windows). We’ll then be adding more libraries in the months ahead (including WCF, Workflow, and LINQ). The source code will be released under the Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL).

  You’ll be able to download the .NET Framework source libraries via a standalone install (allowing you to use any text editor to browse it locally). We will also provide integrated debugging support of it within VS 2008…

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