Joe Petviashvili

“The benefits of web apps (ubiquitous access, seamless upgrades, reliable storage, …) are many, but quite often users lose their freedom to study, modify and discuss the source code that powers those web apps.”

the second significant instance of Facebook Open Sourcing a key infrastructure component "inspired" by Google internals

Users want more; they want real transparency about the way that the engine produces results, and they want a hand in tuning these results.

Built with Ruby on Rails, Lovd is an open source social networking solution that has everything you need to start your community.

Prism is an open source cross-platform prototype of functionality that lets users split web applications out of the browser and run them directly on the desktop.

“The cluster statistics were: * 910 nodes * 4 dual core Xeons @ 2.0ghz per a node * 4 SATA disks per a node * 8G RAM per a node” Reproducing the result yourself on Amazon EC2/S3 = ~ $100k

So let's be completely clear: when you buy a new Mac, you're buying a giant hardware dongle that allows you to run OS X software.

Stay up to date on web trends, and save your favorite sites. You and friends can share what you think is interesting online. See how much interest sites are getting in real time. Nothing to clog up your email inbox, more...

open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian or similar analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines. The primary challenge inherent in our task is that stupidity more...

On Wall Street, bankers are rooting around for a good open source company to take public. "People call us all the time," says John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, which oversees the open source Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail application.

“the story of the birth and evolution of Wordpress as well as his ’secret’ to success”