Friday roundup
by the editorial team
This week it’s some comments on CentOS and Microsoft along with a few other goodies.
- If you didn’t find what you were looking for in our gift guide, try Make’s open source hardware gift guide. Pick up an Arduino kit while you’re there and then try one of the projects we posted about.
- Donald Rosenberg explains the Red Hat and CentOS relationship.
- What if they gave a browser war and Microsoft never came?
- Speaking of browsers, need some new Firefox plugins?
- MySQL Chief Executive Marten Mickos speculated that Microsoft would be open source if it were started today.
- George Church, leader of the Personal Genome Project and described by Wired as an “open source junkie,” has entered a team in the genomics X-Prize.
December 8th, 2007 at 4:24 am
Tsk Tsk. You haven’t covered the Launch of Hyperlinks for Video. Nothing to do with me. I just think it a great application. And not just for flogging product either.
The way it works is you can use this new free service to put adjustable hyperlinks on a video you take from a video-sharing site. When the viewer hovers the mouse over the faint hyperlink (rectangle or pulsing point) the video stops playing as you read the copy - then you can click on the hyperlink to go to a site or another video and use your back button to return to the original video - like channel-surfing on TV. Is that cool or what?