L’Eclipse Innovation Award è un prestigioso riconoscimento internazionale ideato da IBM per incoraggiare l’uso di tool open source e basati su standard aperti. Ogni anno sono premiati i migliori progetti di ricerca, didattica o community building. Quest’anno abbiamo partecipato con il progetto eConference over ECF. La lista dei vincitori comprende 43 progetti da tutto il mondo, di cui 11 dall’Europa. C’è un solo progetto che ha vinto in Italia…

Gmail has a built-in player for MP3 attachments. If you receive emails that include MP3 files (maybe a podcast or a public domain recording), you can listen them directly from Gmail.

This is feature was initially used only for the voicemails sent from Google Talk. Google uses a Flash player, similar to the one from Google Video.

You can create a new filter for MP3 files, so it’s easier to find them. You need to add a new label.

da GoogleSystem

Visto il successo della precedente segnalazione…

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via Wired

This is perhaps the most dramatic manifestation of the second-generation Web. The tools of production, from blogging to video-sharing, are fully democratized, and the engine for growth is the spare cycles, talent, and capacity of regular folks, who are, in aggregate, creating a distributed labor force of unprecedented scale.

This can all sound a little like, well, ’60s-style utopianism. After all, Marx himself believed that the industrial proletariat would revolt against the bourgeoisie, creating a state where the workers own the means of industrial production. It’s easy to see an echo of that in blogosphere triumphalism.

But it’s a mistake to equate peer production with anticapitalism. This isn’t amateurs versus professionals; it’s each benefiting the other. Companies aren’t just exploiting free labor; they’re also creating the tools that give voice to millions. And that rowdy rabble isn’t replacing the firm; it’s providing the energy that drives a new sort of company, one that understands that talent exists outside Hollywood, that credentials matter less than passion, and that each of us has knowledge that’s valuable to someone, somewhere.