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    Lifestreaming - Aggregate And Author All Your Social Media Content From One Place: Lifestrea.ms



    If you want to aggregate and author all of your social media content from a single service, Lifestrea.ms may very well interest you. Lifestrea.ms offers you a single solution for gathering all of your various online identities and publishing destinations into a single social media space. Given ...
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    Michael Pick -- December 3




    Free Conversion To PDF, RTF Or OpenOffice Format For Any Microsoft Word File



    If you are looking for a way to convert your "closed" and Microsoft-owned document files into an open-standard file format like .RTF (Rich Text File format) or OpenDocument - OpenOffice .SSX, or even into the Adobe PDF file format, here is a free and completely web-based ...
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    Robin Good -- March 22




    Online Open Television Platform Launches Today: Democracy Is Here



    For the good and for the bad, television has been one of the most influential factors in the development of our present day culture and world view. While the reality and illusions television has created may not be perfectly marching the ideal world you may have ...
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    Robin Good -- February 21





    Open-Source Alternatives To Microsoft Windows Operating Systems And Applications: "Just Say No To Microsoft" Book Review



    If you are looking for reasons, information, and facts supporting the use of alternative operating systems and application to the standard Microsoft set, this new book by Tony Bove may indeed provide some valuable information. Educational and academic institutions and increasingly governments, in many parts of the ...
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    Ben Rothke - Slashdot -- December 27




    Open Standards Support Coming In Next Microsoft Office Suite



    MS Office 12, the upcoming version of Microsoft's flagship software suite will use XML file formats, allowing information to flow freely to and from Word, Excel or PowerPoint files to other applications and over the net. Photo credit: Myles Davidson This is a major break for Redmond, as ...
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    Robin Good -- October 18




    Ajax: The New Web Interface Design Development Approach Everyone Talks About



    In the past few years, developers could choose between two approaches when building a web application. Photo credit: Marja Flick The first approach was to create a screen-based system with very rich interactions using a sophisticated, powerful technology such as Java or Flash. The alternative approach was ...
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    Joshua Porter - UIE -- July 28




    Open Standards: Is "de facto" Good Enough?


    Industries leaders re-iterate their well known general resistance to open standards, rightly calling into the issue of the often too slow and bureaucratic process that official standards bodies require. "What's to gain by subjecting already popular technologies to a long, sometimes painful standards process?" There are
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    Robin Good - GlobeandMail.com -- July 5





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