Archives Tag: Open Source

Google Pushes More Money to Chrome

Google is pushing full force to get Chrome adopted by the world. In a recent blog post, Google talks about how they are now running Google Chrome ads through their television advertising network on AdWords. So why is Google trying to push Chrome so far? It’s two-sided, in my opinion. Google obviously wants part of [...]

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Jaiku Re-launches as Open Source

Jaiku Re-launches as Open Source

Jaiku is being relaunched as an open source server. “JaikuEngine differs from Jaiku in a few key ways. Although core features like the website, SMS (in the US only) and IM bot still work, feed fetching and international SMS are no longer available.” Is this Google’s attempt to start trying to put some strain on [...]

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Google Welcomes Code Contributions

The first comment on the post is actually a great question. “Is this the first outside contributor that has been granted commit privileges?” by Ryan. Chrome is, I believe, the first product of Google which is accepting an external committer. [full doc on becoming a committer] Google has chosen Pawel Hajdan Jr. as the first [...]

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Google Strongly Supports Development of Open Source Wine

Google has proven itself as a strong supporter of many Open Source projects. This week, they officially announced their ties to the Wine application [Windows emulator]. Google has hired CodeWeavers to “make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine.” Dan Kegel of Google writes, “I work for Google, and part of my day job [...]

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