Posts Tagged ‘Open Source Software’
Dolphin is Best. Community Software. Ever. YouTube, MySpace, Odeo, Flickr, Match and Facebook - all in one, customizable and under your full control. You're limited only by your imagination - not by the software. Dolphin Smart Community Builder is a universal, free, open source software that allows you to build any kind of online community. With a huge variety of features & options, you can quickly launch your own very unique and successful website. Online Dating Software & Social Netwo
Open source software: An all-star lineup
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Washington – Want a PC full of free software? To get it, you don’t need to adopt Ubuntu or any of the other Unix-based operating systems. Nor do you have to rely on the sometimes risky freeware you find scattered around the Internet. Instead, you can look to the open source movement, where free software is not synonymous with underpowered and unsupported. In fact, many of the best open source applications are not only updated as often as commercial packages. In some cases, they’re simply superi
Picok - Let Users Build Their Personal Information Dashboards
Friday, August 21st, 2009
Picok stands for Personal Information Cockpit. It’s an open source software package, aimed at enabling users to build their personal information dashboards. The users content is loaded into small draggable boxes, so called portlets, and layed out in a tabbed column-based interface. There are a quite few standard portlets shipped with Picok, but since it is an open system, maintainers of picok installations can easily create portlets of their own. Picok is written in PHP 5, uses the Yahoo U
ERP: An Open Source Robot Design
Friday, August 7th, 2009
It's always good to see more free software and open source software for robot builders and even better to see more open source hardware designs. John Palmisano of the Society of Robots website writes: Most robot builders quickly hack up a not so well thought out robot, get it to mostly work, take a few pics and vids, then get bored of it and finally start the next robot. Rarely do they work on pesky things such as multiple iterations, documentation, manufacturability, instructional assembly tu
The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation Product Description Online communities offer a wide range of opportunities today, whether you’re supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or developing open source software. The Art of Community will help you develop the broad range of talents you need to recruit members to your community, motivate and manage them, and help them become active participants. Author Jono Bacon offers a collection of experiences and o


