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Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 12:30pm EDT
Identi.ca is a microblogging site (like Twitter, Jaiku or Pownce) but with a difference: the code is Open Source; all the posts are Creative Commons licensed; and it uses an open protocol for subscriptions between servers. The goal? Compatibility with the Open Service Definition (http://opendefinition.org/osd).
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Posted: June 12th, 2008, 9:00am EDT
The Montreal Chapter of Fair Copyright for Canada is holding an emergency action meeting to respond to the Canadian DMCA. We'll have information for citizens to learn more about the bill, and materials for writing and sending letters to MPs asking them to oppose the bill.
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Posted: July 25th, 2007, 4:35am EDT
Vinismo.com is a new project to create a Free-as-in-freedom, world-wide wine guide. It's a wiki project to collaboratively document, describe, and drink (!) the estimated 100K wines currently available. Launching in French and English initially, Vinismo will have versions in the languages of the top-20 wine-producing countries by year end.
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Posted: May 26th, 2007, 8:15pm EDT
The wikiclock is an experiment to do with human labour what's trivially easy with computer power. Each reader can update the wikiclock with the correct time; eventually the clock will be sort-of correct, some of the time. A triumph of the human spirit!
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Posted: March 15th, 2007, 8:47pm EDT
Tired of typing in passwords? certifi.ca allows you to use a client-side SSL certificate to authenticate yourself instead of a password. Since they are an OpenID provider, you can use certifi.ca to log in to any site that works with OpenID!
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Posted: February 1st, 2007, 4:21am EST
A new wiki for creating a world-wide events calendar launched today. Available under the extremely liberal Creative Commons Attribution license for re-use by weekly newspapers, radio stations, community Web sites. Wikevent uses MediaWiki with significant modifications to organize events temporally, geographically and thematically.
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Posted: February 1st, 2007, 4:21am EST
A FREE and UPDATED Travel guide is what you will get at Wikitravel...so if you are on the move, do have a look at this site for some useful information.
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Posted: December 20th, 2006, 9:21am EST
Evan Prodromou from Wikitravel explains how to add maps, comments, and other functionality to your site using web APIs from Amazon, Google Maps, OpenID, and other services.