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Beyonce and Eva Longoria as lesbians next film

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SpikeNews - SourceForge not eating in their kitchen, Golf Gadget and Corporate blogging

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Daniel Lyons over at Forbes has an interesting piece on VA Software, the company behind SourceForge and Slashdot. The irony here, as Lyons points out, that while VA promote the use of open source at every turn, they are far from eating in their own kitchen, citing the reason they don't release their enterprise crown jewels is because they are scared someone will compete with them. Oh hum.

If you are going into the gadget market, which group are you going to target? The golf market is rich pickings, with their large disposal incomes and if you can pray on their inability to hit a ball, by giving them hope through some sort of electronics then you have yourself a cow you can continually milk. Gizmodo is reporting on a golf watch that monitors all sorts of things during your game that you can download to your PC later!

Finally, Yahoo news is reporting on a story regarding corporate America getting behind blogging and the legal pitfalls that may be awaiting. By letting one's employee's talk their mind freely, it would appear, some take this opportunity with a little too much vigor. You would never see this blog abusing that trust, but while we are on the subject let me just say ------ ------- ---- -- ------ ----!! ---- - ----- ---. [we'd like to apologise for this out burst, the author is currently undergoing a company horse whipping. we hope he'll be back Monday]

Has Open Source Become A Marketing Slogan?

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VA Software describes itself on its Web site as sitting 'at the center of the open source technology revolution.' Seems to make sense. After all, the company operates SourceForge.net, a site where developers collaborate on open source projects. It also runs Web sites, like Slashdot and NewsForge, where the anti-Microsoft crowd rails against the evils of proprietary, closed source software.

Suunto G6 Golf Watch

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While, admittedly, any device that measures tempo, rhythm, backswing, length and speed of your shot sounds like the beginnings of a Cialis spam to me, golfers just might salivate over the Suunto G6 golf watch.

As blogging grows, companies eye legal pitfalls

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As Corporate America wades into the burgeoning world of Internet Web logs, companies are being warned they could face legal hazards when employees are let loose in the free-wheeling blogosphere.

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