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There is increasing recognition of the economic impact of Open Source Software (OSS), offering productivity gains for local industries and generating export revenue by servicing offshore markets.

The Australian Open Source Industry Community Report 2008 says “…conservative projection of earnings suggests that the Open Source industry generates $500 million in revenue each year, with over 50% of that being directly related to Open Source”

Web feeds - also know as Atom or RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, allow you to read and keep up to date with articles from multiple sources (websites, blogs, wikis etc). This is done by the publisher creating a web feed (an XML file in a specified format - e.g. Atom or RSS) at a web address.

Almost every web user will have encountered a ‘404 - Not Found’ error at some point. After reading an interesting discussion topic started by Ben Bradshaw on the Web Standards Wiki about 404 good practice I decided to fix our site’s 404 error page.

A revealing video from The Office of Privacy Commissioner of Canada highlights privacy issues on social networks.