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Matt Asay: Digg uses Firefox to extend its reach worldwide. This looks like a good Firefox extension that adds web-wide Digg notifications. And it comes from Digg's Kevin Rose. For many more useful Firefox extensions, see our superguide....

The Open Source Census shows that half of PCs in a giant survey contained free open source software. There is a good slideshow about the results here.....

Is Google trying to push more of its applications into Netbooks (such as the sub-$400 Asus Eee PC laptops)?.....

Speaking of Asus' Eee PC laptops, they're now on sale at Target for $299 and $349.....

The Associated Press has an interesting story out today about a group of MIT students who set out to show the power of open cell phone systems. MIT professor Hal Abelson challenged them to design an application for cell phones based on Android, Google's upcoming Linux-based mobile operating system. According to the AP story: In the process, they revealed the power of an open system like Android to shake up the mobile phone industry, where wireless companies are being pressured to loosen the control they have maintained over what devices do. Is there something to this?

By Aaron Huslage

Let's face it, open source software runs the Internet. Without it we wouldn't have basic services like DNS, or even the web server that's sending you this page. This isn't a new phenomenon. People have been writing and distributing OSS software since the Internet was born. I'm always amused when people characterize it as a new-fangled thing. That does a complete disservice to the hard work of folks all over the world, and the phenomenal software they have written.

Mike Gunderloy's post on FOSS Factory got me thinking about what Linux needs to gain mass market acceptance. After thinking about it, I've come up with a list of four things that the Linux community needs that aren't (as far as I know) yet in the works.

This isn't a list of impossible goals -- all of these things are attainable if the Linux industry and community were to decide that they are priorities. That's not to say that they'd be easy to accomplish, but the Linux community has proven good at working together when it's important.

ZDNet U.K. is reporting that efforts to increase the adoption of open source software are being derailed by the efforts of a loud minority who have made personal attacks on individuals.....Appcelerator, a player in open source rich Internet application (RIA) development, today announced the launch of its new developer community, the Appcelerator Developer Network.....Is Google playing politics with open source?...Linux.com covers clients for three top P2P networks.....