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If you'll be without your personal assistant when webapp Sandy closes its doors, you may not have to wait long for a replacement: A group of developers are working to build a free, open-source Sandy, and they're hoping to resurrect as much of Sandy as they can from the startup graveyard.

Projecting current browser usage trends over the last year up until the start of the world cup in South Africa, June 2010, to see how that future audience will browse the Internet

An open source directory that focus on Java.

During our company meeting today at Cleversafe, I was informed that a client, Museum TV, went live with our products. After taking a look at the website this evening, I noticed right up top on their website the “Powered by Cleversafe” image. That totally rocks! Congratulations to everyone at Cleversafe for kickin’ some arse and takin’ some names. Open Source rocks! Or as Jorge would say, “AWESOME!”

It's taken a long time, but I think finally we can see what the ideal home page for a software vendor should look like:

• it would list all the company's major products in a simple compact layout
• within two clicks you could get to a video walkthrough, some real information, or a download
• it would use colour, whitespace and layout to focus attention on the most important aspects of the page
• and just maybe it would have some aesthetic qualities - consistency, clarity and a sense of style

That site is sun.com.Main menu:

This week, we're really happy to be sharing some work we've commissioned to deliver BBC content (mainly radio shows from the BBC Audio & Music team) on demand for users of GNU/Linux.

Ubuntu, the open source GNU/Linux based operating system, is about to release its next big update - Intrepid Ibex. In the past, the update servers would crash very quickly on a big release day, making it hard for people to get the latest update. With BitTorrent, however, this can be easily avoided.

This is turning out to be quite a good week for OpenID, an increasingly popular mechanism for creating and managing a single identity across the Internet. On Monday, Microsoft announced that it would give every Windows Live user an OpenID account, and today, Google announced a very similar plan.

Blogger Ron Barrett has scoured the IT world to bring you this list of affordable priced business productivity tools that run on any desktop (many are even free).

Beginning today, Windows Live ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider.

She hates computers in general and change in particular, using computers for simple communication, Internet research, and basic productivity tasks. Guess what she told me this afternoon, though? “I really like Ubuntu… it’s very intuitive and I was able to do everything I needed to do.”

I saw a great story on U.S. News & World Report called 10 things to do on the day after you're laid off: "Write a thank-you note to your former boss." I like that. It can't hurt, and if your boss hears of openings elsewhere, you're now that much more likely to get the referral.

Recently, IDC estimated the total value of the Linux ecosystem (hardware, software, services) to be $25 billion. That's a great number, but it doesn't really say anything about what Linux should be worth to you and your organization.

Android is the first free, open source, and fully customizable mobile platform. Android offers a full stack: an operating system, middleware, and key mobile applications. It also contains a rich set of APIs that allows third-party developers to develop great applications.

Scobleizer has been trying to get upbeat in a downmarket and made a great solo effort with his Recession Proof Your Startup post, but if you want to really bootstrap your entrepreneurial brain, you should plan to spend at least a couple of hours watching, reading and thinking about what some very clued in presenters said in the last few days at the Future of Web Applications 2008 in London. Most of it is available in full video, often with highlights and slides.