Yahoo has released an advanced version of its BrowserPlus Web development technology, enabling developers to use it on their own Web sites for better in-browser uploading and desktop notifications.BrowserPlus offers a plugin framework for building Web appl...

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/10/Yahoo_adds_to_BrowserPlus_Web_...

TCPDF, a Free Libre Open Source PHP class for generating PDF documents, has announced it has achieved a new milestone by reaching 100,000 downloads from SourceForge.net, and the number is expected continues to grow

Source: http://www.prlog.org/10138080-tcpdf-floss-php-class-for-generating-pdf-d...

SAN FRANCISCO--"We don't control the platform. It's magical when it belongs to all of us." Those were the words of Vic Gundotra, who spent 15 years at Microsoft and is now leading Google's application development efforts. He was speaking about the open Web, and Google's open sourcing of much of its code to the developer community at large at the Web 2.0 Summit on Friday.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10086495-80.html

It's a balancing act between high-volume community adoption and enterprise differentiation. But if you do it right, the impact is huge.

Source: http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2008/10/highvolume_low...

Acquia's strengthened and supported distribution of the open source content manager smooths the path to a trouble-free Drupal Web site.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/152110/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws

Drupal 6.5 and Drupal 5.11, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download.

Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in Drupal 5.0 release announcement.

Congratulations to Drupal for winning a CNET Webware 100 award in the publishing category. The 2008 Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications on the Web today. After receiving more than 5,000 nominations for inclusion in the Webware 100, CNET's editors selected 300 finalists.