Links 12-7-07

OpenSourceCommunity.com

If you are interested in open source content management systems, whether it’s Joomla! or Drupal or WordPress or Typo3 or Plone, this is a place you can talk about it. If you are interested in open source productivity tools, like Open Office, this is a good place to be. If you are interested in talking about the different flavors of Linux, here’s a great place to do that. 

NY Times: Intel Quits Effort to Get Computers to Children 

A frail partnership between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child educational computing group was undone last month in part by an Intel saleswoman: She tried to persuade a Peruvian official to drop the country’s commitment to buy a quarter-million of the organization’s laptops in favor of Intel PCs. 

This will always be the struggle when a company who supports a philanthropic endeavor that has the potential to circumvent their profits.

Performancing Blog: Reader’s Choice Award

Performancing is running a Reader’s Choice Awards. I was happy to see some of my favorite blogs on the list:

• Darren Rowse (ProBlogger)
• Seth Godin (Seth’s Blog)
• Brian Clark (Copyblogger)
• SEO Book Blog

Seth Godin: Marketer of the Year, 2007

Very relevant to my analysis yesterday. Seth calls a dead heat between Ron Paul and Barack Obama.  

OnStartups: Ga-ga for Groups? LinkedIn is Lame, Facebook is Fantastic

I have to agree here. LinkedIn has never manifested a proper groups experience which is ironic given their networking purview.  I created a Facebook group tonight and it was up and running in minutes.

Washington PC: "Eee" Could have Meant Excellent

Rob Pegoraro weighs in and says the Asus Eee has potential but gives the Linux ultra-portable a big thumbs down.

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Technorati Tags: Asus, Blog Awards, Eee, LinkedIn Groups, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, Open Source, Performancing

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