Results tagged “opensource”

Web 2.0 has been established as a way of life for many users of the vast network of tubes internets. From social networking sites, wikis, to tools of collaborative authoring, the web has become a different beast than it once was. Perhaps a better web than it once was. Personal relationships in that thing called "real life" or unwired relationships are touched by email, MySpace, Flickr, instant messaging, among others. So what happens when you're crossed by a lover? You get dumped, or need to dump someone? Or the break-up has happened and you need to implement a necessary no-contact period?

The Graffiti Research Lab, or GRL, is a group "dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication." They'd like you to know that they were not part of the Great Lite Brite Incident of 2007 yesterday. The company Turner Broadcasting hired for their marketing initiative, Interference, Inc ripped off ideas that the street artists at GRL had posted and used it for commerce – pretty much opposite the goal of GRL. Interference, by the way, has posted an apology on their website after being down for most of the day yesterday

We at Interference, Inc. regret that our efforts on behalf of our client contributed to the disruption in Boston yesterday and certainly apologize to anyone who endured any hardship as a result. Nothing undertaken by our firm was in any way intended to cause anxiety, fear or discomfort to anyone. We are working with Turner Broadcasting and appropriate law enforcement and municipal authorities to provide information as requested and take other appropriate actions.

If you head over to Harvard this Saturday night, you'll have a rare chance to hear, for a modest price, two modern masters of Afro-Cuban jazz bang out Dizzy Gillespie's masterpiece "Manteca," Stan Kenton's quirky "The Peanut Vendor," and a whole lot more great Latin jazz. Trumpeter Brian Lynch and drummer/percussionist Bobby Sanabria will perform at 8pm in Lowell Hall with the Harvard Jazz Orchestra. Lynch has played with the legendary Eddie Palmieri for the...

After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this... Austinist read a book about Olympian Bode Miller and liked it. They also took a few pictures of the...

Bostonist is more familiar with Kramer filling in for MovieFone service on Seinfeld than we are with the service itself. The line "Why don't you just tell me the movie you'd like to see?" in Kramer's computer voice is indelible. But today some bots took over our Instant Messenger client. We've never been able to get all our friends together on one service so we're running GAIM. It's open source and runs our AIM, MSN, GoogleTalk, and our nerdy ICQ client (for which we have a really low number) all in one package. We're happy to say it operates with out the pesky 'TravelZoo' ads that popped new windows with a simple mouse over. We thought we had escaped the grip of AOL service muscling itself onto our desktop, but today, we were proven wrong. AOL added ShoppingBuddy and MoveFone to our buddy list tagged 'AOL Bots'. The services aren't new, AOL has ten of them in stock. Luckily we're free to tell them who's our friend and who isn't. Call us a sell-out but we may keep MovieFone around for a little while, movie times are only an instant message away. Tell the Bot your zip and desired movie and pow! Movie times on your screen. This is good until we can figure out this whole Google SMS thing.

When you listen to the commanding words of Bostonist and you subscribe to a podcast we expect you to listen to everything they put out. Few times do podcasts like Open Source come around that put out so much content that even we can't keep up. Hosted by Christopher Lydon and produced by WGBH this is actually a real radio show that is also provided on the web.

Mitt Romney may have hid under his desk when his aides reported to him that the state had been slashdotted yesterday. The post on SlashDot filed a report on the Commonwealth government's possible future dumping of Microsoft Office in favor of software that would support an open document format compliant with OASIS. Bostonist has been using OpenOffice for a while now, and since our last computer didn’t come with office and dropping two bills on a CD seems a little insane, we don't blame the state for taking this route. Sure it's not the same as Microsoft, with which we've become very familliar, but it does the trick. Perhaps it'll end up keeping the state out of trouble too. The Financial Times, Forbes and the Inquirer had stories backing up the post, pointing to the Mass.gov website where documents are linked for public review of the proposal. (More in today’s Boston Globe.)