Open Web Awards: Nominations for Mobile Applications
Friday, November 30th, 2007Open Web Awards: Nominations for Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks
Friday, November 30th, 2007Last but not least, a category for niche and miscellaneous social networks – companies that don’t fit neatly into the 12 categories for which we’ve already opened up nominations. Ironically, there are probably more web sites in this category than all of the others combined. This year, we’ve ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Music
Thursday, November 29th, 2007It has been a big year for music sites. Among the highlights, CBS purchased Last.fm for $280 million, iLike came out of nowhere with a strong Facebook application to become a multi-million user site, and imeem signed deals with most of the major labels to stream music for free. ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Social Shopping
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Social shopping is a niche that many companies are targeting for an obvious reason: there is lots of money to be made. Nonetheless, there is no clear #1 in the space, with the most notable deal this year being Heart’s $40 million acquisition of Kaboodle. Meanwhile, we reviewed ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Start Pages
Thursday, November 29th, 2007How many different options do we need for our start page on the Web? Apparently, a lot of them, as dozens of companies have launched varying ways to begin our browsing experience (see our side-by-side comparison of 14 different options). Netvibes even launched a white label version of ...
Yahoo Widgets 4.5 Open Up, But Not Enough
Thursday, November 29th, 2007I was just thinking the other day, “when will Yahoo expand its widget offering beyond the desktop?” That’s actually a true story, folks. And it’s a question many of us, including Mashable’s own Stan has wondered as well. And sorry to say that the latest ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Photo Sharing
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Photo sharing – one of the biggest and most successful areas of Web 2.0, and likely to be a hotly contested area of the Open Web Awards. Flickr recently passed the 2 billion upload mark, while earlier in the year we saw Photobucket acquired by Fox Interactive for more ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Video Sharing
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Online video has been one of the major stories of 2007, with dozens of companies receiving massive amounts of funding from investors. YouTube has maintained its #1 position since being acquired by Google late last year, but up-and-comers like Metacafe, Daily Motion, and Blip.tv are hot on their heels. ...
Pluck It Open. Social Nets on Facebook and OpenSocial.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Pluck is planning on offering its SiteLife social networking platform to be used with Facebook applications and Google’s OpenSocial next year. The company behind Blogburst, Pluck’s got a few months before developers and web publishers can expect to see the availability of SiteLife for integration with popular social networking ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Social News and Social Bookmarking
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007We see a lot of startups enter the social bookmarking scene on a regular basis, many of which are never to be heard from again. But a few new interesting entrants have emerged this year in the battle to take on the likes of Digg, Del.icio.us, and Reddit. ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Social Search
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Despite the never-ending barrage of Google news and the dominant market share of the top four search engines, dozens of startups think they can do a better job at helping you query the Web. In fact, we rounded up a list of more than 40 of them a few ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Widgets and Applications
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Late last year, Newsweek predicted that 2007 would be the year of the widget. Boy, were they right! Aside from the usual buzz that surrounds the likes of Google, Facebook, and MySpace, this year was dominated by stories of companies coming out of nowhere with distributed applications to ...
Verizon Wireless Opens Network; Will it Join the Open Handset Alliance?
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Verizon Wireless has announced that it will be opening up its network, allowing customers to use devices and software not sold by the company. Essentially, this means that any CDMA phone can be designed to work on Verizon’s network (with Sprint being the other large CDMA carrier in the ...
The 1st International Open Web Awards Start Now!
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007The first ever Open Web Awards have arrived! The Open Web Awards is the first ever online, open collaborative awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing web 2.0. We now have 24 confirmed Blog Partners from several countries from around the world and in several different languages. Over ...
Open Web Awards: Nominations for Best Large Social Networks
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007The Open Web Awards are off and running, and over the next few days we will be opening up nominations in 13 categories. The first of those categories is “Mainstream and Large Social Networks” – the sites we’ve all heard of, frequent, and have multi-millions of users. In last year’s ...
Open Web Awards - Nominations Begin Tomorrow
Monday, November 26th, 2007The first ever Open Web Awards is almost here. The Open Web Awards is the first ever online, open collaborative awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing web 2.0. We already have 21 confirmed Blog Partners and we expect this number to grow before the competition is over. ...
Top Blogs Team Up for Open Web Awards: Sponsorships Open!
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007I am very pleased to announce that our humble Mashable Awards has grown thanks to a great response to our partnerships offer. The renamed Open Web Awards is an upcoming online contest for social websites supported, promoted and judged by more than twelve top blogs and blog networks. ...
Book Review: Open Source Licensing
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007Lawyers and programmers have at least one thing in common their day-to-day work puts them in contact with issues that seem obscure and esoteric to the general public. That makes the terms of open source licenses doubly difficult to understand but Lawrence Rosen does an admirable job explaining ...
Microsoft Continues War on Open Source
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007It s no secret that Microsoft has been unhappy with the open source software movement for a long time. Ever since Eric Raymond posted the first Halloween document in 1988 it s been clear that the software giant considers such software a threat to its monopoly. Microsoft s latest ...
Upcoming PHP and Open Source Conferences
Monday, April 9th, 2007There are a number of quality PHP and open source conferences each year. Here are a few that are taking place in the next month or two: php|tek 16 - 18 May Chicago, Illinois ...
CHMOD: Tool for Open Source Administration
Monday, December 5th, 2005CHMOD chmod is a UNIX oriented command that means Changing Mode. It lets you change the mode hence the name of the file or directory ies depending on how the chmod command is used. When I say changing mode ...
O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2005
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005Circle August 1-5 on your calendar and join in at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in beautiful Portland, Oregon. OSCON 2005 will be at the Oregon Convention Center, where there will be tutorials, sessions, parties, BOFs, and a huge exhibit hall.
