How DataSF.org, which publishes dozens of official data sets, is starting to transform life and politics in San Francisco

Open Plaques is a project to find and document all the UK’s blue heritage plaques, which commemorate sites where famous events occurred, or with a connection to notable historical figures.

The International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSS L. Rev.) is a collaborative legal publication aiming to increase knowledge and understanding among lawyers about Free and Open Source Software issues. Topics covered include copyright, licence implementation, licence interpretation, software patents, open standards, case law and statutory changes

One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty, but achievable, goal. To build it, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a brand new database infrastructure, a wiki interface, multi-language support, and people who are willing to contribute their time, effort, and book data. To date, we have gathered about 30 million records (20 million are available through the site now), and more are on the way. We have built the database infrastructure and the wiki interface, and you can search millions of book records, narrow results by facet, and search across the full text of 1 million scanned books. Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and is funded in part by a grant from the California State Library. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone! This is an Open project - the software is open, the data is open, the documentation is open, and the site is open.

So presently the City of Vancouver only shares its garbage schedule (which it divides into north and south) as a PDF file. This is a pity as it means that no one can build any apps around it. Imagine a website or Iphone app that mashed up google maps with a constantly up to date city garbage pick up schedule. With such a application one could: (..)

The Open Platform is the suite of services that make it possible for our partners to build applications with the Guardian. We've opened up our platform so that everyone can benefit from our journalism, our brand, and the technologies that power guardian.co.uk.

This un-conference is about convening a trans-partisan tribe of open government advocates from all walks — government representatives, technologists, developers, NGOs, wonks and activists — to share knowledge on how to use new technologies to make our government transparent and meaningfully accessible to the public.

Ambtenaar 2.0 is een 'groeiend netwerk van mensen die een bijdrage willen leveren aan het verbeteren van de overheid met de mogelijkheden van web 2.0'. Een van de initiatieven van dit project is Open Overheid. Hoe open is Den Haag inmiddels?

Door de blogs op www.ambtenaar20.nl, de discussies die daaruit volgden en de vele ontmoetingen die ik daarna heb gehad, ben ik er bewust van geworden dat rondom Open Overheid er flink wat initiatieven zijn. Ook blijkt dat het onderwerp soms verwarring oproept. Want wat is de relatie met begrippen als open source of open standaarden? En gaat het niet gewoon om openbaarheid? En waarom gaat het alleen over de overheid? Tijd voor een toelichting op het begrip Open Overheid.

Maybe you've felt it - the buzz in a room, the tension in the air, the accelerating pace at which people are connecting and the realization that we're all in this together, even if we don't quite know what "this" is. At least in my small pocket of the world (wide web), something is brewing. That something is The Future of Science.

Why in the world would anyone take the time to write complicated software programs for free? It's a good question, one that has piqued the curiosity of a number of economists, who wonder what benefits, if any, lie behind the burgeoning "open source" move

What follows below is the kind of research Jeff Atwood should have done in preparation of giving that money. What I think would have been most useful to Jeff is researching what has already been done, though I suppose he's not got time for such trivial th

oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resourc

Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnected, and more distributed. Many of us in the web creation world are embracing and promoting web standards - both client-side and server-side. Microformats, standard apis, and open-source software are

Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.

Entertainer aims to be a simple and easy-to-use media center solution for Gnome and XFce desktop environments.

Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors. We need a DHCP for Identity. A distrib

jBrout is a photo manager. * manage albums/photos (= folders/files) * tag photos with IPTC keywords * use internal jpeg thumbnail * comment photos (with jpeg comment) and album (textfile in folder) * rotate loss-less jpeg (and internal jpeg thumbnail)

"Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through photos under each type of license."

"For the last three months, my sole focus at work has been getting this site ready. It has involved a major redesign, a major architectural change and dramatic streamlining of the content." -- Nice job!

Om Malik discusses open source search and Wikia's effort in that area. The acquisition of Grub is the first step on the road to a viable open source search engine.

Grub is a distributed crawler for web indexing. It can become one of the 3 pillars of open source search: indexing, rating, and brokering web content search. That's why Wikia bought it to become part of their open source search engine.

Kunnen bedrijven profiteren van het open source model? En dan niet alleen voor ontwikkeling van producten, maar ook voor optimalisatie van hun bedrijfsmodel. Livre meldt over een onderzoek in opdracht van Twynstra Gudde over het organisatiemodel van open

Een opvallend nieuw idee: het interoperabiliteitsoctrooi. Twintig jaar bescherming, maar geen exclusiviteit. IBM stelt voor om een nieuw soort octrooi in te voeren dat de octrooihouder alleen het recht geeft om royalties te vragen voor het gebruik van de

Observatie en discussie over iPhone en OpenMoko

Open source accounts for between 25 and 70 percent of all software in Australian, Chinese, Indian and Korean companies, according to a recent IDC survey.

So, what Open Source programs can be used to work in photography? Let's start by defining the different areas involved in digital photo processing workflow and then see what programs can be used in each area.

There's an inverse correlation between the regulation of speech and the freedom of a society. Trying to filter the internet is ridiculous and dangerous.

Radio 6, het nieuwe 'open' radiostation van de publieke omroep. Met weblogs over verschillende onderwerpen, en een multimediale insteek.