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Symphora provides informational and educational technology services to law schools with a focus on helping law schools implement open source software solutions and providing IT management consulting.

Symphora | Bringing open source software to legal education

Yep, finally decided to do it.  After tinkering around with the idea for a number of years, I’ve decided to try and generate a little side income from deploying and supporting open source software solutions for law schools.  First up, a turn -key solution for student organizations based on Drupal:)  Let me know if I can help you out.

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There’s only one problem with that scenario — Safari sucks. A lot of Mac users won’t run the browser (I’m one of them), so why would anyone run it on Windows?On my Mac, Safari is buggy and unreliable. It’s always crashing, and it doesn’t offer basic features like remembering all the tabs you have open after you quit (or more likely, after it crashes). Until now, it didn’t even warn you before closing multiple tabs, although the new version of Safari fixes this.

Who in Their Right Mind Would Run Safari on Windows?

I’ve found Safari to be a pain on the Mac and, aside from testing purposes, I run Firefox on the Mac.  I think that after the honeymoon, most will realize that Safari on Windows is just pointless.  How about just selling us OS X as a stand alone OS for the Intel platform.  Now that would be exciting, and real competition for MSFT.

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Print-on-demand books boosted in partnership

Emory is launching a new model for digital scholarship through a partnership with Kirtas Technologies Inc., a maker of cutting-edge digital scanning technology. The partnership will enable Emory to apply automated scanning technology to thousands of rare, out-of-print books in its research collections, making it possible for scholars to browse the pages of these books on the Internet or order bound, printed copies via a fast, affordable print-on-demand service. The project is limited to materials in the public domain.

Amazon will handle the PoD aspects of this project.  The project is not a part of the Google digitalization project, but rather represents a stand-alone effort.  I think this is a better idea than letting Google do it.  Certainly the text will be indexed by Google, but the project remains under the control of the University.  This aspect makes it a scholarly project with roots in archiving and education, not a a quasi-commercial operation that is really rooted in drawing ad dollars.  I hope more universities step up and take these projects in house.

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How to Change the World: By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09 – Article does a great job describing just how easy it is to get a site up and running these days.  And, most importantly, it includes all of the current buzz words.  The truth is, it has always been this easy.  All the money that gets poured into startups is mostly to finance lifestyle stuff I think.  If you want to change the face of the web, go ahead, fo it:)

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