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 [...]

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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, making [...]

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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 Search takes [...]

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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 freely!
The [...]

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