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    IUseThis: Social Networking for Nerds

    I pay a lot of attention to software as you can tell by looking at the sidebar on the Deflexion.com home page, where I list tools and services that I use or that I'm considering using. I recently started using osx.iusethis.com to track the Mac OS X software that I use. It's an easy way to find out about updates, to learn about tips & problems from other users, and to learn about other software that I might like. Lots of people blog about the OS X software that they use and I often bookmark such posts in my del.icio.us bookmarks with the tag OSX, but it's overwhelming to go through these posts and decide what software I might actually want to try. IUseThis is a fun way to browse through software lists and quickly get a sense of what software might be useful to me. To me, IUseThis is an example of social networking for nerds. If you're a nerd like me and wondering what all the excitement about social networking is about, I recommend that you try IUseThis or some other object-centric social network service.

    To learn about social networking, see:
    To learn about the distinction between object-centric social networks and ego-centric social networks, see:
    I'm mainly interested in using object-centric social networks, such as IUseThis and social bookmarking services, and my guess is that this is also the case for my fellow nerds.

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    posted by Nancy 12 novembre 2007   |   permalink   |   comments (0)   |

     

     
    OSS, FOSS, and FLOSS

    At Slashdot there's an interesting discussion about OSI To Crack Down On "Open Source" Abusers, which begins with this:
    "...the Open Source Initiative is getting tough on any vendors who claim to be open source despite not actually using a license approved by the OSI. In his blog post, OSI president Michael Tiemann writes..."
    This discussion covers terminology issues that have been going on for at least 15 years. In a nutshell, here are the issues: Because of the ambiguous nature of the terms open source, OSS, FOSS, and free, I try to avoid all of them. For example, in my blog post about Freeing the IMAP Clients, I distinguish between free/gratis and free/libre.

    My recommendation to everyone in the software community is that we banish ambiguous terms. Refuse to use the word free and instead use free/gratis (or gratis) and free/libre (or libre). If you use the phrase open source, clarify what exactly you mean by that. And if you mean free/libre open source software, use FLOSS -- don't use OSS or FOSS!

    See Also: Alternative terms for free software at Wikipedia.org.

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    posted by Nancy 21 juin 2007   |   permalink   |   comments (0)   |

     

     

     

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