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Cool idea promoting open source hardware - if a product is discontinued, open source it.

Open source hardware companies have agreed to a "constitution" dictating the rules for the still-nascent industry. The document replicates many of the principles of free-software licensing, but applies these principles to open source hardware projects like Chumby, Arduino, etc., making it possible for "makers" to know the rules by which they are expected to operate as the industry develops.

Add music fingerprinting/audiotagging to any service

This kid taught himself to solder electronics and write code, then designed and built his own open-source smartwatch. All hail the Internet.

""If you think about the unique identifier - the cookie - it's just a way to identify a browser and then have the smarts behind it to serve a particular ad. If you have Open Graph data from Facebook, you would have to work through issues with personally identifying information, but you are essentially adding some behavioral data, which is what they are doing on their own site now. I don't know how far they could extend that, but there is a big push in the industry to start to utilize more sources of data for more specific targeting.""

It has announced Amazon Inspire, an open education resources (OER) platform for teachers to source free learning materials for students from kindergarten to twelfth grade, starting first as a beta in the U.S.

Yeastie Boys -- new beer called Digital IPA that has a label with a QR code directing drinkers on how they can make their own version of the beer

open source audio gaming platform that quantifies kids' outdoor play and gets them physically competing with friends

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open-source facebook alternative diaspora is launching in 3 weeks Mark Zuck donated to this platform

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open source platform that lets people go through others stuff they threw in the recycle bin on their Mac 

THIS IS COOL I AM SO GLAD THAT BUG LABS IS POPULARIZING OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE