OpenOffice.org has risen to quite a place of prominence among office workers, home users, students, and just about every category in between. Why?

Mozilla last week slipped in a fourth beta of its upcoming Firefox 3.6 browser, but said this week that it is still shooting to ship the final code by the end of the year.

Can we liberate tweeting from Twitter? It's an open question. And it's one that Dave Winer hopes we can answer, in response to his post We need: An open source Twitter shell.

I have a large electronic library and was looking for a way to cope with this mass of information. I thought a local indexing service with a full-text search might solve my problem, but I could not find a good modern comparison of these services. I had to compare them myself.