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omidyar net

:: Kathleen Gilroy has a posting on The Omidyar Network, which was created by the founder of eBAY and is now an intriguing experiment in social networking. Its philosophy is consistent with the open source software development model: "good things happen when people work together in a bottom-up way, discovering their own power, and connecting with others."

I encourage people to join the omidyar community. It's an interesting experiment in social networking.

blogs and social networking - KM Review

:: Bill Ives has published a new artlicle in KM Review called "Engaging Generations with Blogs and Social Networking". You can download for free the article and some others by Bill Ives at this link.

who wrote linux: an out-of this-world theory

:: If you have ever wondered how Linux was developed, this is the most plausible theory that I have come across:

"According to Ronald Trip…No one on earth wrote Linux. Linux and the GNU system are creations of the space-faring tribe called Accatshi. .....The Accatshi live in tribal hives and travel with cluster spacecrafts. They peacefully explore other worlds. Sometimes they decide to help another species technologically, but only if they feel it will promote and invoke the same peaceful tribal nature they hold dearly. To that end, they visited RMS (Richard Stallman) in the early 1980s, when they picked up that tribal vibe with him.

They told him about their philosophy of GNUUUH, the constant force that invokes cooperation. Then they told him about Guh Pah Loooh, the holy act of share and share alike. They told him that peace could only be achieved only if all humans would be able to embrace the philosophy of GNUUUH and engage in Guh Pah Loooh. Networked communication was key to this, so they encouraged Stallman to build the technology that would make it possible to adhere to GNUUUH and let Guh Pah Loooh thrive.

Stallman got to work. To make it a bit more digestible to uninitiated humans, he called GNUUUH, the force of cooperation, GNU for GNU's Not Unix. (Unix at the time meant Anything But Cooperation.) He translated Guh Pah Looh into GPL (General Public License), our equivalent of share and share alike. Thus, the GNU Operating System was born, and its goal was to create a peaceful technical tribe.

Read more about it at
searchenterpriselinux.

Via Corpos Callosum.

.lrn consortium launched

:: I work in an open source project called .LRN. With zero marketing it has grown by word of mouth to 250,000+ users in eighteen countries and five continents. We recently launched the .LRN consortium to take the project to the next level.

ipodder makes the ny times

:: ipodder made it to the NY Times. Congratulations to Adam Curry and David Winer. ipodder is true innovation and I am betting that it will take off like a rocket.