Tag Archives: open source

Your MP – Google Desktop Gadget

I was playing around with the Google Desktop Search API again at the weekend and threw together a gadget that queries the TheyWorkForYou.com UK MP database. It basically enables you to gather all sorts of interesting info about various MPs, Peers, debates and committees. This gadget is just a simple interface so you can enter [...]

“Advise” the BBC to Use Open Standards

A link posted on Digg highlighted a current national consultation by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) Trust asking about their soon to be launched online on-demand TV services. One of the key questions in this consultation asks if they should use proprietary Microsoft technology to show these programs or other more open technologies. Fill in [...]

Open Source Can’t Blame Piracy

I recently read an article by John Knight in which he slates piracy as a major factor for the poor performance of open source software. Personally – I couldn’t disagree more. Open source can not blame its poor performance on piracy and when it does I feel its nothing more than a scape goat for [...]