For years now, Google has been looking to take a leadership stance in web-based video formats. We've reported on its efforts to facilitate 3D online video, and we covered Google's acquisition of On2, giving Google control of the VP8 video codec.
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Here’s the projects that we’re featuring this week on the front page of SourceForge.net: JasperReports Library JasperReports Library, the world’s most popular open source business intelligence and reporting engine and JasperReports Server, the... Delete the scoop?
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Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Delete the scoop?
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The EU opens up vast amounts of public data and "moves to a more open culture", explains EU-Commissioner Neelie Kroes Delete the scoop?
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For many years now, users have been awaiting the fabled "Dick Tracy watch" -- a smart watch that can perform advanced digital computing and communications tasks. Delete the scoop?
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Review: LiveCode Community is open-source HyperCard for the 21st century Delete the scoop?
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The History section of our big Free Online Courses collection just went through another update, and it now features 60 courses. Some courses (like those featured below) focus on broad time periods and themes. Delete the scoop?
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Dr Bernhard Haslhofer from University of Vienna giving details on their winning entry into the DM2E Open Humanities competition (http://dm2e.eu/open-humanities-award-winners-announced/) MapHub – tools that allows you to map a historic map to the... Delete the scoop?
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why not have a look at Google Art Project? Though we’ve posted about it before, you’ll want to check out its slick new redesign — not to mention its expanded collection, which now includes more than 40,000 works of art from over 250 museums.
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Wayland is a new graphical server that is well positioned to replace the aging X Server currently in use on most Linux desktop systems. Delete the scoop?
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Mark Kedgley has a succinct overview of recommended steps to take to harden a linux server over at Ezine Articles. The article is not all inclusive, but it does contain a fairly good summary. Delete the scoop?
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The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.3 and introduces some new features
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Get Europeana Open Culture on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews. (Good start of the week with 2000+ downloads of the #Europeana Open Culture app! Keep sharing&exploring! Delete the scoop?
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Via a tweet yesterday I saw a link to a data powered map from the Lib Dems (A Million Jobs), which claimed to illustrate how, through a variety of schemes, they had contributed to the creation of a... Delete the scoop?
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Europeana has launched its first free iPad app "Europeana Open Culture" which includes costume-related images. (350.000 images to browse, discuss, curate and share for free via @EuropeanaEU Open Culture app. Delete the scoop?
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Talk about your 40-foot perspective: An international team of researchers has put together an absolutely brilliant 3D video map of the nearby universe out to a distance of 300 million light-years.
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A former restaurant manager is using open source hardware to build a product that can make kitchens, greenhouses, and wine cellars smarter. He calls it The Internet of Places. Delete the scoop?
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Systemd has been taking it on the chin lately because a lot of users just don't like it. There are varying reasons and Debian developer Michael Stapelberg has identified several through a recent user systemd survey. Delete the scoop?
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Maphub in an online application for exploring and annotating digitized, high-resolution historic maps Delete the scoop?
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Occasionally I slip into an ivory tower mentality in which the idea of a banned book seems quaint—associated with silly scandals over the tame sex in James Joyce or D.H. Lawrence, or more recent, misguided dust-ups over Huckleberry Finn. Delete the scoop?
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No surprise that in 'Masterworks for One and All,' an article about how museums have begun to offer free, high-quality downloadable images of works from their collections, the New York Times’ Nina Siegal brings up Walter Benjamin. Delete the scoop?
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Freedom isn't free. It's freemium! Delete the scoop?
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Yesterday, the Mageia project announced the released of updated Mageia 3 classic installer images. A little bug in the first set could cause unsuspecting users to be running development branch instead of stable. Delete the scoop?
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