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Libcloud Joins Apache Software Foundation Incubator

November 21, 2009 By 2 Comments

Libcloud, the open source python library released by the vendor Cloudkick, has taken the first steps to be part of Apache Software Foundation by joining the ASF Incubator. Libcloud offers a single programming interface for apps to access different cloud providers including Amazon EC2, Rackspace, vCloud, Terramark, etc.. Even without any standards, Libcloud can offer [...]

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Web Services Startups: Data Portability And Open Source Are Crucial

March 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment

I posted this comment in one of the ReadWriteWeb posts. Since the topic fits well into the theme of this blog, the concept of open web, I thought I will also post it in my blog. The death of Readburner brings into focus a very important question. How can we rely on a web service [...]

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People have trouble understanding the importance of open

November 5, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Josh Catone has written a post on RWW titled “Why facebook shouldn’t fear open social“. His arguments run as follows (roughly). Users are what make social networks go. Things like open APIs and data portability and cross network compatibility excite pundits and developers, but most users care for only two things: a good experience (apps [...]

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Are they really free marketers?

September 29, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Image via Wikipedia Business community advocates free markets. But these free marketers fail to understand the meaning of free in “free markets”. If they had understood the meaning in that case, they would have understood the meaning of free in open source too. Business community, talking about the “cost value” in open source and ignoring [...]

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Openness in the facebook world and why it is better to wake up now

September 7, 2007 By 2 Comments

Facebook opened itself as a platform for application developers 3+ months back. Many in tech media were too eager to call facebook as an open platform. I was not all that happy about the “openness” of facebook then and I wrote a post in June talking about a decentralized social networking platform. In fact, I [...]

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History teaches us that the future of social networks is an open one

August 5, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Image via CrunchBase We are dreaming about decentralized social networks, where we can take our data and friends to wherever we go. Some of us are even wondering if Facebook and other social networks will take the necessary first step. But the venture capitalist Fred Wilson says that if people leave Facebook for its walled [...]

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Playogg.org: A website dedicated to promoting Ogg music format

May 21, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Image via Wikipedia Michael Calore writes on Wired about the new effort by FSF to promote Ogg format In an effort to rally support for the underdog media format, the Free Software Foundation has launched PlayOgg.org, a website promoting awareness of the Ogg format. It’s an educational primer for playing Ogg Vorbis audio files and [...]

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