From Slashdot: “Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch has an article up on a new Flickr competitor called Zooomr. The interesting thing about all of this that it was developed in only three months by a 17 year old and to top it all off, the site is currently localized in 16 languages”. The site is “experiencing high volumes” since appearing on Slashdot and is being moved to a larger data center. I’m looking forward to seeing it.
2.0.2 Security Release For WordPress
The WordPress team has released version 2.0.2 to address some security issues with 2.0.1. You can get the full story over at the WordPress blog, or go directly to the download area and grab it. Remember, don’t be lazy.
Geoff Smith: Not on the Radio Video
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Today’s Daily Source Code was a music video of a song by Geoff Smith called ‘Not on the Radio’. The video was created by his wife while he was out of town and stars his young daughter. Now this is a really cute video and a pretty good song to boot.
What Corporate Projects Should Learn from Open Source
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OnLamp had an excellent article yesterday called What Corporate Projects Should Learn from Open Source. The articles pretty long, but well worth the read. While there are obvious differences in the two types of projects (like budgets and deadlines), I still believe that corporations can move closer to the OSS model of development and get major productivity increases.
Dan Bricklin: When The Long Tail Wags The Dog
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Dan Bricklin has a great essay on the Long Tail, Hyperdifferentiation and general purpose tools called When The Long Tail Wags The Dog. Dan recently appeared on an episode [ mp3 ] of the Gillmor Gang where they talk about the concepts outlined in the essay.
Subversion Support Now LIVE on SourceForge
After quite a long time of announcements and speculation as to when it would happen, Sourceforge has finally gone live with their support of Subversion as a source control option for their service. Following is a clip from the SourceForge mailing list:
The SourceForge.net team is pleased to announce the General Availability
of Subversion service to SourceForge.net-hosted projects, effective
2006-02-21. This service offering is in addition to our existing CVS
service; as with all of our services, projects may select (and enable in
the project admin pages) the portion of our offering that best meets
their needs.
The best thing about finding this announcement was the fact that Ben Collins-Sussman, one of the developers of Subversion, posted the announcment to the Subversion developer list with the following comment:
So, are we done? Have we made a compelling replacement for CVS? 🙂
Congratulations to the Subversion team for making the original vision real. I would say the product is a pretty compelling replacement.
Chuck Norris Facts
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Our son Jacob has been reading this list of Chuck Norris Facts over the last few days. I have to admit, they’re pretty damn funny. My favorite: If you Google search "Chuck Norris getting his ass kicked" you will generate zero results. It just doesn’t happen.
Producing Open Source Software
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I’ve been browsing through Karl Fogels Producing Open Source Software book tonight after finding a reference to it on the Subversion mailing list. This looks like a great read. The book is available in PDF, HTML, or from Amazon.com. I just ordered my copy.
Bad Metaphor Podcast
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I found the Bad Metaphor podcast last night and thought it was really cool. The podcast is by John and Chris Campbell, a father and son who pick a topic and start to talk about it. Very cute.
Will people pay for radio shows on the net?
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Will people pay for radio shows on the net? – While I can see paying a subscription for satellite – and maybe a podcast aggregator, I don’t think I’d pay show for show for a podcast. Give me advertising any day …
