I’ve seen countless times websites that would allow me to dig through my GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo, contact list to invite friends over. A pretty neat piece of code that can help a website to grow its userbase quite well. Open Inviter is the open source bit of code that can allow users to install this [...]
Read more →If you’re working with a team of people to build a software, a website, or a plain and simple group project, Bugzilla is a very good task management web based tool. I’ve used in the past the commercial application JIRA which in some ways resembles Trac, so my familiarity with Bugzilla is pretty recent. This [...]
Read more →Bookmarking social web service Ma.gnolia has announced that they’re building a v2.0 of their platform, aka M 2, that will be completely open sourced. We already love Ma.gnolia from the fact that it uses OpenID, eliminating the need to create yet another username and password to use the service. M 2 will be a rewrite [...]
Read more →First, my truest apologies for the disappearance. Due to health reasons, work, then more health reasons my tech life was drastically minimized. But, now all is well and coming back on track. And, we’re coming back with a sweet web service called identi.ca. Once Twitter got all crazy and full of never-ending glitches, many web [...]
Read more →Reddit is trying to strengthen its web presence, as a competitor to Digg, by releasing their code to the open source community. Being released under Common Public Attribution License, reddit is now allowing users to download the full code that powers its website. The real intent is to have developers provide improvements for reddit itself, [...]
Read more →Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia is now coming out strong with Wikia Search, an open source collaborative search website. It was first released in alpha months ago, but most recently some new features have been announced. It isn’t a Google killer (yet), but it surely has the potential to one day become quite visible. Wikia [...]
Read more →Pligg is for Digg as GetBoo is for Del.icio.us. I was happily surprised to have found this open source project. Besides from being a website that can organize my bookmarks, GetBoo also releases the entire platform for download under GPL license. So, not only can I use their services but I can also copy it [...]
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