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Submission + - Youtube Introduces Creative Commons Option (boingboing.net)

Submitted by geegel on Friday June 03, 2011 @08:00AM

geegel writes: Youtube has announced that it will introduce a Common Creative license option and also provide remixing capabilities in its video editor.

For now, the only such available license will be CC BY 3.0

Submission + - Wikileaks in New Legal Row (wired.com)

Submitted by geegel on Friday June 03, 2011 @07:48AM

geegel writes: The US Justice Department is now fighting in court the demand of 3 Wikileaks associates to disclose the names of several electronic services platforms that received requests to hand over user information.

This comes after Twitter obtained a court order to unseal the demands in order to notify the 3 persons.

The current legal row has seen both ACLU and EFF provide legal assistance to the Wikileaks associates.

Submission + - How Open Source Might Finally Become Mainstream (wsj.com)

Submitted by geegel on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @02:56PM

geegel writes: .The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting article on how autocracies are now embracing open source, while at the same promoting national based IT services. The author, Evgeny Morozov, paints a bleak future of the future World Wide Web.

Submission + - Delicious Will Not Get Axed... Sort Of (delicious.com)

Submitted by geegel on Saturday December 18, 2010 @08:50AM

geegel writes: In a statement on their Delicious official blog, Yahoo now claims that: "No, we are not shutting down Delicious. While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive".

What that means can be everyone's guess, but at least for now, your delicious accounts are safe.

Submission + - Wikileaks and Iceland MPs propose journalism haven (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by geegel on Friday February 12, 2010 @09:03AM

geegel writes: Iceland could become a "journalism haven" if a proposal put forward by some Icelandic MPs aided by whistle-blowing website Wikileaks succeeds.

Julian Assange, Wikileak's editor, told that the idea was to "try and reform Iceland's media law to be a very attractive jurisdiction for investigative journalists"

For more details see link

Submission + - ESA Conducts Mars Terraforming Experiments on ISS (esa.int)

Submitted by geegel on Thursday February 04, 2010 @08:34AM

geegel writes: Space is a hostile environment for living things, but small organisms on the Expose-E experiment unit outside Europe’s Columbus ISS laboratory module have resisted the solar UV radiation, cosmic rays, vacuum and varying temperatures for 18 months. A certain lichen seems to be particularly happy in open space. For more details see here

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