Mozilla, the creator of the popular web browser Firefox and the popular email client Thunderbird, has more tricks up its sleeves than most people know. In this post we will take a look at the 10 projects that are at the forefront of Mozilla’s efforts.

It’s important for me to note that Mozilla is a huge player in the Open Source world. It’s safe to say that without the efforts of Mozilla and the thousands of developers who contribute to it’s projects daily, that Open Source as we currently know it would fail to exist…

Let’s clarify a few things about this app. It’s built in PHP and MySQL. It is Open Source and licensed under the MIT License. It features some basic features of a Social Network like the ability to make “friends” and post status updates. It also has the ability to aggregate information from other social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook.

In the first of a series of videos, I explain what I call my Open Source Social Media Strategy. At least the first big chunk of it anyway. I explain how I am able to funnel all of my social media efforts around the web all through Twitter and then down through to my Microblog.

There are 4 open source projects that we need on the web. If these existed I could die a happy man. Hopefully we see some development in these area. Here they are: 1. Lightweight & Highly Extensible Shopping Cart We all know of the big open source ecommerce platforms in the market. Magento, Zen Cart [...]

Understanding the GNU GPL or GNU General Public License is critical to understanding Open Source Software. But getting a good easy to understand explanation of this software license can be hard to come by. I’ll be the first to admit. I have tried explaining it to other people and found that I ended up confusing [...]

Pubwich is the open source PHP social aggregation app. I wrote about it a couple weeks back covering some of what it actually does. Well I decided yesterday that I would spend some time installing and configuring Pubwich on my server to see how cool it actually is. Needless to say, I am impressed! Pubwich [...]