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Scientists: Mars Was Once Covered With Water Everywhere
Scientists: Mars Was Once Covered With Water Everywhere
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 07/18/2008
If you're interested in the details of how this could be done I encourage you to read Ben Nova's MARS series. (see comment)
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Top 5 Messages To Write When You Shout! (DIGG EXPERIMENT)
Trying to get my first popular. Please Digg!
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Google Opens Its Templating Technology
Google is on a roll. Hot on the heels of releasing its internal Protocol Buffers data interchange format, it has open-sourced Google XML Pages (GXP). Though the project page reports this as version 0.2 beta, don't be fooled: according to a presentation about the technology, this is the templating language behind AdWords, Blogger, Google Reader,etc.
A step in the right direction i'd say!
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-NC
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Jaspersoft Unveils Updated Forge With a Social Twist
Open source business intelligence company Jaspersoft announced at OSCON today that it has ramped up its community project development platform. I caught up to Nick Halsey, vp of marketing, to find out more about the new features, why he thinks the JasperForge community has grown so fast, and what sets this platform apart from others.
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Ubuntu new Distro announced at OSCON
Ubuntu announced a new distro and updates to Launchpad.net. In addition, Mark Shuttleworth states what he feels is required to make Desktop Linux a viable offering.
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Sun Offers Free Hosting/Storage for Facebook App Developers!
In conjunction with the Facebook Developers Conference going on today, Sun, Joyent and Facebook have announced that they've partnered to provide free scalable, on-demand infrastructure from Joyent to Facebook developers. Did I mention - its FREE! ;)
Digg Up and Sign Up!
Cheers,
Norm Chow
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Using iMacros for Firefox: A Visual, Step-By-Step Tour
If you perform a lot of repetitive tasks each day, iMacros can save you tons of time and hassle. It sits in your Firefox toolbar, and lets you record tasks —whether they are oft-performed web development tasks, or simple tasks such as open a series of tabs you use each day. Check out this detailed tour...
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FSF vs iPhone
One thing about the Free Software Foundation: there's seldom any doubt where they stand. Take the blog entry they recently posted: "5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G." You can't come away from it thinking that there are pros and cons to the iPhone. How Well Do their arguments stack up?
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Radiohead Open Sources a Music Video
The band Radiohead has a new spin on "open source". Its new single "House of Cards" has a video that was created using advanced visualization techniques and various computer-rendered models. The band has teamed up with Google to release the data for the promo as open source using a Creative Commons license. Take a gander at how it looks here...
This is awesome! Digg Up & Share Please
-Norm
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Google Android: Difference Between "Open" and "Open Source"
As it continues its sometimes-rocky march to an actual release, Google's Android mobile phone platform is now fighting a sort of internal revolt from upset developers. The problem stems from the unsteady release rate of the Android SDK, a necessary tool for anyone who wants to build applications for Android phones.
"Do No Evil"???
-NC
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Second Life Faces Open Source
Second Life vendor Linden Lab has been dabbling in open source for quite a while: their client code is available, and they've persistently talked about making the server open source as well. But now the company is facing a potential upheaval to its business model, as alternative compatible virtual worlds are popping up all over the place.
interesting stuff - would love your thoughts.
-Norm
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Ten Bookmark Plugins for Firefox and Camino
10 Bookmark Plugins for Firefox & Camino! Good Stuff. Digg Up.
-Norm Chow
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View All ShoutsOpen Source and the Fall of VMWare
VMWare - Another Victim Of Open Source Superiority? Possibly...
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Norm Chow


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