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• Building An Intranet For Dummies – A Step by Step Guide
  I was recently tasked with building a Intranet site for my day job. They had looked to outsource the work at first and then came back to me as the $20,000 to $50,000 quotes were not too enticing to them. I decided to look for an open source solution. I tried many solutions that did one [...] […]
• Week in tech: easter eggs, pirates aren't cool, and thinking robots
  People love easter eggs. There are a number of humorous yet undocumented features hiding beneath the surface of some of the most popular open source software applications. We ran down five of our favorites.For years, we've heard complaints about using the term "piracy" to describe the online copyright infringement—but most have come from Big C […]
• ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 20 March 2010
  In the next few weeks, the ReadWriteWeb events guide will take you from New York City, to San Francisco, to Portland, Oregon. Along the way you'll find a conference on search engine strategies, a showcase for startups, an in-depth look at the freemium business model, and a day filled with of social media case studies. How do you like your events calenda […]
• Rulers of the Cloud: Google Becomes the Cloud, Search is a Feature
  The shortest way to describe this is that Google is no longer a verb. It's becoming a noun. Not just the few clicks to find information, but the information itself and the experience surrounding it. Today, we get to add Google's chapter to "Will One Company Dominate the Cloud" introspective series and take a glimpse of the silent revoluti […]
• DLS @ SXSW - Crowd Fusion
  Filed under: Web services, Commercial, Open Source, sxsw I spoke to Brian Alvey, co-founder of Weblogs, Inc. and the guy who built Blogsmith -- the same engine Download Squad, TUAW, Engadget and our other blogs use) about his newest creation: Crowd Fusion. There are quite a few CMS products to choose from out there, but Crowd Fusion is built to perform at sc […]
• Firefox Friday Five - bringing a little fire to your weekend!
  Filed under: Features, Mozilla, BrowsersSebastian is out stomping the fjords in Norway -- true story! -- so I'll be your humble replacement columnist this week. Fortunately, I 'm inheriting a pretty easy job, because there's plenty of interesting Firefox news to discuss today.Just pretend I'm writing all of this in my poor approximation o […]
• Mark Shuttleworth clarifies: Ubuntu is "not a democracy"
  Filed under: Business, OS Updates As some of you may have noticed, the new Ubuntu theme for 10.4 features the window buttons on the "wrong side" (left). This has caused quite the storm in a teacup. It turns out some people feel strongly about this point, even though you apparently would be able to change it later (on a per-user basis, as a preferen […]
• Open video, not Flash, is coming to Wikipedia
  Filed under: Video In the ongoing web video wars -- which have started to look a lot like Flash vs. Everything Else -- the latest battleground could be Wikipedia. A coalition of forces, including Mozilla, the Open Video Alliance, Miro and Kaltura (which is the video partner for Wikimedia), has launched a site called Let's Get Video on Wikipedia. The sit […]
• 45+ Free Open-Source Software For Windows
  List of some best and free open source software for windows. These software are licensed under Free Software Licenses and Open Source Licenses. […]