Ouya has also won backing from the OnLive game streaming service and the XBMC open source media player project.

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You may have also heard of the open source freeware media player, Boxee .

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With all of the open source social media tools now available, this is easier than I expected: I ask a question on LinkedIn and get an answer from an expert (instead of spending five hours googling my brains out).

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With publicly hosted open source software, social media feeds of on-going development and an active community mailing list and live chat, developers have easy access to support and exchange of ideas.

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Reports are still coming in -- I think open source -- we've seen in the media about 21.

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The rise of participatory culture in social media, Web 2.0, open source, mobile networks, is teaching us that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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InsideView uses an aggregation of open source and proprietary technology for search and natural language processing to track social media related to the sales process.

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From there, open the media player in question (be it photo, video, or music) and source your files from the drive share.

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