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CAN-SPAM Act Enforceability Goes into Effect Today

Updates to the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM) becomes effective today. They four main provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act for commercial emailers are: Bans false or misleading header information

Posted: Jul. 7, 2008 01:00 AM

Xandros Acquires Linspire

Today Linux desktop manufacturer Xandros acquired Linspire for an undisclosed amount. Xandros will also be keeping existing engineering, support, and key sales employees and long-time Linspire employee and CEO Larry Kettler will be joining the Xandro

Posted: Jul. 1, 2008 06:00 PM

Oil Crisis Analysis by Congressman Rosco Bartlett

Maryland Congressman Bartlett has some incredible analysis of oil usage in the world. Incredibly well articulated state of world oil production and usage complemented with Tufte-like charts. Technorati Tags: Congressmen Bartlett, Edward Tufte, Oi

Posted: Jun. 28, 2008 11:58 AM

Links: Open Source Week in Review

Removing Barriers to the Community - MySQL Moves to Bazaar - Jay Pipes It is the role of a community manager to remove the barriers both technical and ideological between the user/developer community and the company or group of individuals which

Posted: Jun. 22, 2008 06:14 PM

The Art of Programming

For those of you who think writing code is just wrangling ones and zeros. You should check out these visualizations of code submissions over time to various open source projects. They are examples of organic information visualizations called Code Swa

Posted: Jun. 18, 2008 11:14 PM

Marketing, SEO, and Social Media: Week in Review

I started linkrolling my bookmarks during during this weekend’s U.S. Open but soon became obsessed by Rocco and Tiger. So here’s my marketing, SEO, and social media links for last week. The Marketing of Fear - “The challenge of mar

Posted: Jun. 16, 2008 08:57 PM

The Best Phone for Business. Ever?

Apple is starting to push the iPhone from the realm of the trendy and hip into the enterprise. Maybe el Jobso will be trading in his black t-shirts and Adidas running shoes for Brooks Brother suits. Here’s the copy from the Apple web site: Wha

Posted: Jun. 15, 2008 06:10 AM

Open Source Links: Week in Review

Red Hat News | RHX: Lessons Learned - RHX is different now. The team is smaller and the target market is different; but, fundamentally, RHX is smarter. Its very much alive and is undergoing its third iteration. The Real Firefox-Killer | Li

Posted: Jun. 14, 2008 09:14 PM

Legacy Extensions in Firefox 3.0

I have been resisting using any of the Firefox 3.0 beta’s because of my reliance on Firefox extensions not yet ready for 3.0 but it seems like my Firefox 2.0 keeps bogging down (Perhaps due to my inability to close old tabs). With all the hype

Posted: Jun. 13, 2008 04:53 AM

SpreadFirefox Endeavors for Guiness World Record

The community powered marketing engine for the Firefox project, SpreadFox is pushing to set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours. So far they have over 1.1 million pledges to download Firefox on the June 17th launch date. Show y

Posted: Jun. 12, 2008 05:28 PM