Toward open video on the Web from JD Lasica on Vimeo. A few weeks ago, before and after the Open Video conference at NYU, I sketched out the proposition that open video is a requirement for an open Web in two posts: The promise of open source video and Boxee and the promise of open […]
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Scale vs. ownership: A conflict in the making?
A guest post by Kelly Sponberg, project manager at RANET “For about a decade now I have been fortunate enough to work on a small and niche-focused program called RANET (Radio And Internet for the Communication of Hydro-Meteorological Information for Rural Development). The program has a simply stated goal to make meteorological forecasts, warnings, and […]
Matt Mullenweg on the state of WordPress
Matt Mullenweg on the state of WordPress from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At WordCamp San Francisco a few weeks ago, I managed to get a few minutes alone with Matt Mullwenweg, co-founder, chief coder and “Head of Bug Creation” for WordPress. (I self-host Socialbrite and Socialmedia.biz with code from WordPress.org; others use WordPress.com to host […]
10 new ways to take social actions
Nathan Freitas, Jacob Colker and Ben Rigby of the Extraordinaries at NetSquared 2009. The Bay Area-based Extraordinaires are among the social causes highlighted in the current issue of Time magazine in an article titled New Ways to Make a Difference. Time identified three new trends in doing good: Put your time to work 1The Extraordinaries: […]
How to add a Facebook Page Fanbox to your site
These easy-to-create widgets are a breeze to customize The Facebook Page Fanbox is a social widget that converts casual website visitors into fans of your Facebook Page. The Fanbox does this with three key features: • Streams content from your Facebook Page onto your website. • Displays your current fans. • Enables visitors to “become […]