What is Web 2.0?

O'Reilly's What is Web 2.0?

The Leading Web 2.0 Explanations

The State of Web 2.0

Visualizing Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Is Here

Wikipedia Entry for Web 2.0

Beyond 2.0

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Birmingham To Buy More, Not Less Open Source

Slashdot "Last week, the press ( and Slashdot) reported that Birmingham City Council had decided to ditch its open source project because a report said its trial had cost £100,000 more than it would have cost to buy Windows. However, Techworld has discovered that the opposite is true, and the Council is actually planning to use more open source software as well as to roll out Linux in the next few years. The head of IT was interviewed and he gives a fascinating rundown of the problems he had getting open source working with his systems. More interestingly, he points out that now the trial is over and he and his staff have the technical skills, they expect to save lots of money in future by going open source. Oh, and the report's figures were based on the special rates that Microsoft gives Councils just to make sure the short-term budget look worse — £58 for a Windows license as opposed to the normal £100."

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One is bound to be good...

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."

– Linus Pauling, chemist

Pretty Good Privacy

PGP (short for Pretty Good Privacy) is a public key encryption program originally written by Phil Zimmermann in 1991. Over the past few years, PGP has got thousands of adherent supporters all over the globe and has become a de-facto standard for encryption of email on the Internet.

Another RSS reader I heard some good things about today. This one integrates blogs and podcasts into Outlook.