The first Open Source alternative to Facebook, Diaspora launching on September 15. Diaspora is the brainchild of four New York University students, Dan Grippi, Max Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy who set out to create an alternative to Facebook over 1 year. Full story

Cloud computing is a better way to run your business. Instead of running your apps yourself, they run on a shared data center. When you use any app that runs in the cloud, you just log in, customize it, and start using it. That’s the power of cloud computing. Full story

Here we Giving the 10 Rocking Coolest Open-Source Products Of 2009. Its starting from the coolest one, Drupal Content Management system written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to Enterprise 2.0 collaboration and knowledge management uses to large corporate and political sites, including ... Full story

Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner Full story