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Grand Unified Theory of Microblogging

Reduce, reuse, recycle. It's not just good for the environment, it's also good for open source. In that spirit, open source developers looking to tap into microblogging services can reduce redundancy by reusing the new D-Bus library, Microfeed. The idea is that client applications can focus on the user interface and use Microfeed to fetch and update feeds. The Microfeed library takes care of the backend cruft and developers can focus on differentiating on the front end.


Facebook Releases Core FriendFeed Technology as Open Source

As part of Facebook's open source initiative, it has open sourced a core piece of FriendFeed, which it announced it was acquiring only a month ago. Dubbed Tornado Web Server, it's a non-blocking web server and collection of tools written in Python and designed for high levels of scalability. Facebook Director of Products Bret Taylor has a blog post up about it, and says it includes a complete array of site building blocks, including templates, signed cookies, user authentication, localization, aggressive static file caching, cross-site request forgery protection, and third party authentication. There is complete documentation here, and a link for downloading Tornado. Here are more details.


Cloudera Announces Hadoop World, and Hadoop Marches On

We've written before several times about Hadoop, an open source software framework for highly scalable queries and data-intensive distributed applications. The ecosystem of companies and organizations using Hadoop has grown dramatically in recent years, and we've also written about Cloudera, a well-funded company that is focusing on providing support and services for Hadoop, in addition to offering its own Hadoop distribution.

Today, Cloudera announced the first ever Hadoop World conference, to take place at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City on October 2nd, with registration available here. A look at the companies and institutions organizing and participating in the event shows just how far Hadoop has come, and how it has extended well beyond just search applications.



Adium 1.3 Provides Facebook Chat, Many Bug Fixes

Adium, an open-source instant-messaging client for OS X, has released its latest version (1.3). Adium, like the Pidgin IM client, makes it possible to use a single IM program, rather than run multiple clients simultaneously for AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and several other networks. Adium's latest release includes support for the Facebook IM client, providing desktop access to this otherwise Web-only communications channel.



Cassandra: Facebook Shares More of its Secret Sauce

Facebook has stepped up its contribution to the open source community with the release of the Cassandra project on Google Code. The location is mildly ironic: Cassandra is roughly an open source alternative to Google's internal BigTable storage system. (BigTable itself isn't open source, though you can gain access to it via the AppEngine DataStore API). Cassandra isn't for everyone, but if you're dealing with scalability issues arising from database concurrency bottlenecks, it's something that you should know about.


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The Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS) project, backed by the European Commission and several organizations, has released an alpha version of Alitheia Core, an open source software quality-checking tool.....

Are enterprises still not getting the full benefits of open source?.....

Book Review: Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code.....



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Facebook translator available as open source code.....

France leads reported open source adoptions by country, and the U.K. trails.....

BestBuy Offers Ubuntu Linux With OpenOffice.....

Canadian open sourcers miffed over proposed copyright law.....

ApacheCon is coming to New Orleans in November.....



Facebook Opens Up "a Significant Part" of its Platform

As we wrote last week (after initial reports came out on TechCrunch), Facebook is open sourcing what it calls a significant part of its Facebook Platform. What does a significant part mean? According to the company it means most of the code that runs Facebook Platform plus implementations of many of the most-used methods and tags. Especially for many developers who want to build social applications, this looks like good news, but OStatic readers wrote in last week questioning whether Facebook is really going open source (see the comments in the link above). Is it?


Facebook: Is it Going Open Source?

While nobody at Facebook is commenting on the rumor yet, TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook will turn the Facebook Platform into an open source project. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports that he has heard confirmation from multiple sources that the year-old platform will go open source, and that application developers will easily be able to migrate their Facebook applications to other social networks. If the rumor pans out, this could be good news for open source. UPDATE: Soon after this post went up, TechCrunch reported that Facebook confirmed this story as correct.