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Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives
Posted 21 Dec 2008 by Optaros Tags: Acquia, Acquisition, Ajax, Alfresco, CIO, Community, Content Management, CRM, Customer Relationship Management, DiSo, Django, Drupal, ECM, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Open Source Directory, EOS, Europe, iPhone, IT Strategy, Java, JBoss, Liferay, Magento, MySQL, Open, Open Source, Open Source Katalog, OpenID, Portal, RIA, Spring, SpringSource, Sugar CRM, Yahoo!

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the last 12 months.Accelerated Adoption of Open Source + Read more

Yahoo! Announces OpenID Support
Posted 17 Jan 2008 by John EckmanTags: OpenID, Yahoo!

After a number of folks noticed code referring to OpenID showing up in Flickr pages (I think this was first noted at Mashable), there's been much speculation about Yahoo! becoming an OpenID provider. + Read more

The Library of Congress, Flickr, and You
Posted 16 Jan 2008 by John EckmanTags: Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Images, Tags, User Generated Content, Yahoo!

The folks at Flickr and the Library of Congress have worked together to create The Commons. Basically they've taken a subset of the images in the Library of Congress which have no known copyright restrictions and posted them as a collection on Flickr. Where do you come in? + Read more

Yahoo! Introduces Mobile Widget Platform
Posted 10 Jan 2008 by John EckmanTags: Mobile, Open, Widget, Yahoo!

Not to be left behind in the era of the iPhone and Google Android, Yahoo! recently launched the Yahoo! Mobile Developer Program, which lets developers create widgets that users can install within Yahoo! Go 3.0. Instead of negotiating all the multiple device models (and carrier restrictions), this enables developers to create widgets using a simple XML based API and enable end users to install those widgets within the framework provided by Yahoo! Go. + Read more