It looks like Wikipedia, is going to start to allow users to add video clips to Wikipedia pages in addition to text. The new video option will allow users to find video of things they might be looking for an edit and embed clips on the site for others to view later on.

America is looking down the precipice at a fairly severe recession right now. This means that many in the world wide technology and software industry are biting their nails to see how it may affect their sales. The creators of Open Source software are sitting pretty.

Open Source advocates hold “installfests” all the time to help new Open Source users learn how to install and use Open Source programs on existing computer systems. Now one United States Open Source group has decided to take this helping hand to the next level by creating a combination installfest and buildfest to provide computers to schools.

A hacker group released a tool called Goolag Scan that uses Google to check web sites for vulnerabilities to attacks from hackers and other malcontents. How does it do that? By scanning your site for passwords, personal information that could be used against you and areas where your server is vulnerable.

It is the great debate: can Open Source products really do everything their proprietary brethren can do? The answer is yes, yes they can. Not only are they just as good (and often better) than their proprietary counterparts, they often address issues the proprietary software doesn’t.

In a landmark decision, the Dutch government of The Netherlands will go completely Open Source in 2008. In an age bureaucracies still cling to proprietary software solutions like Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite and others, this decision is huge. A government going Open Source is a huge step in this time of increasing technological control measures being taken by other governments.

Remember this project? Created by Nicholas Negroponte from MIT Labs, and supported by the UN, some governments and companies such as News Corporation and Google, the first 10 laptops have rolled off the production line at a cost of about US $150 each, not the US $100 price point originally envisaged.