Comments on: GigaOm Launches Ostatic Resource For Open Source Community

By: GigaOM launches…A TV Station : New Web 2.0 Magazine

GigaOM launches…A TV Station : New Web 2.0 Magazine — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:06:40 +0000

[...] Station is leveraging some of the tools created for Ostatic, another site recently launched by GigaOM - including an overview and editor and user reviews and [...]

By: GigaOM launches…A TV Station : New Web 2.0 Magazine

GigaOM launches…A TV Station : New Web 2.0 Magazine — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:06:40 +0000

[...] Station is leveraging some of the tools created for Ostatic, another site recently launched by GigaOM - including an overview and editor and user reviews and [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » GigaOM lance NTV, une chaîne Tv avec les meilleures vidéos du web

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:55:28 +0000

[...] utilisera certains outils créés pour Ostatic un autre site de GiGaOm, permettant des revues et des notes [...]

By: GigaOM launches…A TV Station

GigaOM launches…A TV Station — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:26:51 +0000

[...] Station is leveraging some of the tools created for Ostatic, another site recently launched by GigaOM - including an overview and editor and user reviews and [...]

By: GigaOm Ditches WordPress For Drupal On New Site

GigaOm Ditches WordPress For Drupal On New Site — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:27:42 +0000

[...] blogging software is also open-source. We imagine it’s mostly for features — OSstatic will feature an open-source software directory and Q amp;A section, stuff that’s easier to do on Drupal than [...]

By: Joshua Zeidner

Joshua Zeidner — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:32:07 +0000

on Om’s new blog: http://www.joshuazeidner.com/2.....-blog.html

By: Kurt Blane

Kurt Blane — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:19:13 +0000

Glad to see Om is back in action and innovating. Open source is no longer a techie-only domain and definitely warrants its own offering instead of just being another post on a blog. That being said, there are others like weblogsinc, o’reilly, ohloh, etc. who have been dabbling in this for some time but neither packs the same punch that Om brings to the blogosphere.

By: chris_rock

chris_rock — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:17:47 +0000

http://www. i-guide .ro
http://www. i-guide .ro

By: Darren Stuart

Darren Stuart — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:38:59 +0000

Its and ok idea but how is the directory different from http://sourceforge.net/ project pages? I guess hes seen a niche that none of the other big Tech blog networks are not using. so my question is OpenCrunch.com next then? :p

I don’t think Om gets enough credit for pushing outside the boundaries of normal tech blogging areas. He has some good blogs. I think he bailed on the gaming one to early but hiring wagner was his only mistake.

By: Mircea

Mircea — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:20:38 +0000

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you can compare software side by side - you can’t do that on sourceforge, and you can compare software you have to pay for with open source as well
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Gil, that’s what http://www.mytestbox.com does …reviewing web software (open source or not, standalone applications or as a service) and compare to other from the same category.

I just launched it three weeks ago…and I do hope people (developers) will get involved (and why not? the investors)…I intend to develop it further.

By: Steeze

Steeze — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:12:35 +0000

Hah - C# developers, VBasic developers? Probably “currently using” OSS is what it should say. And even that is LOW! OS can be a bitch to work with at times, given the lack of documentation and automation… Anything that would make it easier can only help…

I wonder how many people tried OS and got frustrated… Let’s see how much help Giga can provide… A bold move, nonetheless. A ‘CrunchBase’ for Software - nice! And, community powered? Even better!

By: William

William — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:05:40 +0000

“71% of the worlds developers have used open source software”

What?!? Are the other 29% are COBOL developers from 1975 cryogenically frozen in an underground government bunker as part of a cyberwarfare defense plan?

By: Gill Bates

Gill Bates — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:25:26 +0000

you can compare software side by side - you can’t do that on sourceforge, and you can compare software you have to pay for with open source as well

By: p.nguyen

p.nguyen — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:18:44 +0000

I don’t see how this is going to be useful.SourceForge already has most of the projects listed and hosted so why would i need to come here to get information on OpenSource???

By: Webster's Law

Webster's Law — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:05:59 +0000

Took a look …gigantic database…definitely the largest iv seen…will be interesting to see how things take shape

By: yanniv

yanniv — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:03:36 +0000

I don’t think they are competing with code hosts like sourceforge - I think the angle is to increase general awareness and promote projects in a way that hasn’t been done before. Good Luck Om!

By: Danilo

Danilo — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:54:38 +0000

A very nice idea and concept. I applaud any initiative to propagate open source projects. There are quite a bunch of excellent projects out there which do not get the popularity they deserve from lack of a good channels to educate users.

I’ve started to write about it as well and I can see the interest around this topic is rising quite a bit.

By: Shawn McCollum

Shawn McCollum — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:26:02 +0000

I do like the featured software and the linking open source and proprietary alternatives is nice. Right now it seems a little sparse, for example there isn’t a open source alternative listed for windows server 2003. There’s seems to be a huge amount of work still to be done. I’ve liked what Om’s done in the past so i’ll give him the benifit of the doubt. It wont make my primary news sources list right now but i’m open to what they have to offer.

By: Yakov

Yakov — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:23:09 +0000

It’s timely. I’ve covered several open source deals on my blog.

By: Back on the Beat: Introducing OStatic, the Open Source Blog - GigaOM

Back on the Beat: Introducing OStatic, the Open Source Blog - GigaOM — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:17:15 +0000

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By: sridhar

sridhar — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:56:46 +0000

Positioning at this point is very important, how can they compete with mighty Sourceforge, Gcode, DZone and others, well blog is different from repository, unless i find something worth for my utilization i wouldn’t use it as much.

http://www.yulop.com

By: Karim Yaghmour

Karim Yaghmour — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:55:53 +0000

@4 notice I didn’t say it would fail, I said it would be “difficult to position”. And I could be totally wrong, but that’s my gut reaction based on having been involved in OSS since ~’95. Since that time, quite a few sites have come and went, and, as in any other community, there is a large amount of cross-referencing (say for ex. TC vs. GigaOM vs. Techmeme, etc. and in OSS LWN, Slashdot, etc.). How any new site will be able to become yet another link in this chain, especially as it comes ~8 years after the Linux/OSS hype bubble, is difficult to see.

That being said, all the best to GigaOM. I’m definitely *not* against anything that provides FLOSS with more visibility.

By: Soap

Soap — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:51:02 +0000

“So is Ostatic built on open source? Yes, say Malik. ”

like hundreds of thousands of projects. like… techcrunch. like… does that matter?

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:45:03 +0000

@#1 … i don’t see how this overlaps with Slashdot per se… i wouldn’t draw the conclusion that this will fail because Slashdot is established.

I read this in my reader and was excited, thought “Cool, Om! Good thinking.” and i see negative comments… i figured folks would dig this.. more than just a blog, more than just repository… both sectors are missing out on communication opportunities in OS and this will attempt to bridge the gap, I think it’s interesting…

By: Geekywood

Geekywood — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:37:11 +0000

UniveRSS: A 3D RSS readers for Windows Vista…

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