Using Open Source Software means more than using the code, especialy if you are a high profile user like Google. It’s a relationship. In addition to free code, a Big Co using OSS may gain access to positive publicity, evangelists, early adopters.
However this comes at a cost. You have to favor this relationship. Google has not done bad in this field. Most of their products will work flawlessly in OSS browsers and they advertized their use of OSS when OSS needed this publicity. Do they need to give back more? I think they could.
Read Google Under Fire for Open Source Greed at Threadwatch.org.
lilina 0.6.1-pre1 is out. This version is a big step towards the direction I initialy imagined lilina should go. There are many bug fixes, minor functionality improvments and code clean-up, but what I call “content enrichment”.
By “content enrichment” I mean that lilna uses additional sources to enrich the feeds received by sites. One such source is del.icio.us. lilina will automaticaly look up each URL at http://del.icio.us/ and see if there are any tags associated with it. If so, they will be shown. next to the post title like this
The second source is Google. Using the Google Web APIs, lilina will query Google for the words contained in the post’s title and show the top 10 results. 
(you have to obtain a key from Google to enable your lilina installation to use this feature).
You can see lilina in action at my linkblog. Visit lilina project homepage.
I’ve spent the last days trying to install linux on an xbox, no luck so far -it looks like I have on of the newes ones where the Cromwell OSS BIOS does not work very well.. 
I gues I’ll have to wait for the next version of cromwell.
However I’ve been getting a lot of mail lately regarding lilina, so I decided to set up a forum at SF so that everyone can easily post ideas, suggestions and problems, and share it with other developers and users.
Merry Christmas!
Firefox is great, and now more people will be aware of it:
10,000 Firefox enthusiasts make history - Spread Firefox
my name is in there too! 
BTW, I have to congratulate the spreadfirefox.com peoplr for organizing a really successful and really profesional and amazing in so many ways, campaign (the NY Times ad is only part of it) for an Open Source Software product.
Thanks to all of them!
I forgot my blogger.com password, so I used the “forgot password” form to regain access to my account. The automated email I received said at the end:
You could also try logging in/recovering your password from a different web browser - we recommend Mozilla Firefox:
http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
Does this, as well as this mean tha Google is actively pro-firefox? I hope so! I wish Yahoo! and other mazor sites showed similar signs too.
Lilina 0.5.2 is out. Changes/enhancements include better date handling (even for dateless feeds) and opml import/export. HTTP authentication has been droped for session based authentication so that it works nice with php as CGI. Other minor changes and bug fixes too!
I’d really like to see some alternative CSS… Any suggestions?
BTW, if you are using lilina, please post here, including your lilina instalation URL!
Research buzz have a piece on CiteULike. An application that allows you to track white papers and who cites them by tag, author, user and more.
Once you’ve set up a watchlist you can grab the RSS at the bottom of the page and add it to bloglines or your favorite desktop aggregator.
[via www.threadwatch.org]