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A couple of days ago Google, Yahoo! and Bing announced a new schema they have all agreed upon that will form a proposed standard for how web developers and search marketers add meta data about their content to web pages. This is not the first time these companies have worked together though, a couple of years ago they also released the sitemap standard.

So how does the schemas work? Well  first, it is build using HTML5′s microdata standard and uses attributes …

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The new OpenSource Release Feed makes it really dead simple to broadcast your release announcements to the world. We switched to Statusnet a short while back which basically let’s you spread your announcement in a Twitter style. This combined with OpenID support as well as Facebook connect coming later today it could not be simpler. However, there is now yet another way to get your open source release announcements onto release feed.

Using Twitter? Then simply post your release announcement on …

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Since OpenSource Release Feed was launched some time ago, it has gone through a whole bunch of changes. It started of as a simple site built on Rails meant to make staying up to date with open source releases easier for the community. To a certain extent it succeeded but, getting the community out there involved was always difficult. The site eventually grew to be more then just release announcements and ended up containing various articles, competitions as well as …