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AribaWeb is the Open Source component-based web application development framework for creating rich, AJAX-enabled applications with the absolute minimum of code (and no hand-coded Javascript).

Currently, version 5 is RC1 and is available here...

And when they say "simplifying", they mean "simplifying"!
If you need some convincing, check out this video (11m20s):

AribaWeb: Rich Widgets and AJAX Integration from AribaWeb Team on Vimeo.

That definitely beats some of the Windows crashes or reports thereof…

Another + for Ubuntu

OpenOffice 3.0.1 Released and available

Get your version: http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable

CamStudio 2.0 (Development)

Get your version: http://portableapps.com/node/16708

Following up on the 2001 and 2004 surveys, here are some interesting figures from the 2008 one by LexisNexis:

- 62% of professionals report that they spend a lot of time sifting through irrelevant information to find what they need;
- 68% wish they could spend less time organizing information and more time using the information that comes their way;

- Workers admit that not being able to lay their hands on the right information at the right time impedes their ability to work efficiently;
- 85% agree that not being able to access the right information at the right time is a huge time-waster;

- More than 40% of the survey participants indicate an inability to handle future increases in information flow;

Now up to 25 GB !

Simply by size, SkyDrive is among the leading free service sites in the field.

Laconica (pronounced "luh-KAWN-ih-kuh") is a Free and Open Source microblogging platform.

It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web. Users can choose which people to "follow" and receive only their friends' or colleagues' status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter, Jaiku, and Plurk.

This is definitely an option for those of you looking into corporate micro blogging ;)

Try it out on-line at: http://identi.ca/
or download you own copy at: http://laconi.ca/trac/

blocks, stories, connectors, controls, music instruments, or simply the next version of tools to interact with our world !

Check out the images of what the next generation of weapons look like and don’t forget to vote to cast your opinion on many interesting polls including for example whether or not you believe that this will make wars easier or harder in the future. And for the fans, don’t forget the videos as well as the playlist ;)

Enjoy ;)

1: “There are/is [noun] [relative pronoun] [verb]…”
2: “It is [adjective] [that]…”
3: “Very” / “extremely”
4: “Given the fact that…” / “In light of the fact that…”
5: “in the month of [month]…”

On February 14th, Debian 5.0 was finally released

More info available at: http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214