Louis Gray reviews on Louisgray.com the presentation of Chris Messina at the South by Southwest Interactive event SXSW. Open source advocate Chris talked on how he and others in the community, both at Google and outside of it, are working to bring more meaning to our social networks, activity, and feeds, through extending todays data portability

Holy Benedict Arnold Batman!  Less than a week after the Motorola BACKFLIP - the first Android phone to launch with a search engine other than Google - hits the market, Motorola announces that the trend of Googleless Android phones will continue.  This should be a calculated expense for Google, having been well aware of the price of open source. Motorola just announced a "global alliance...

Free, open source operating system Ubuntu will take on a new look in its forthcoming 10.04 release. Gone is the brown, in comes the auberginey-purple. Its actually quite appealing and obviously takes a lot of cues from OS X (the file manager windows) and iPhone (the menu bar and its plain white icons). Reaction among Ubuntu users

Just days after we reported on the launch of Alfred for OS X, along comes yet another keyboard-centric file and application launcher: Launchy. Launchy has a long history as an open source Windows application, doing much the same on that platform that Quicksilver did on OS X. It too supports plugins that greatly boost its usefulness. Right

A new beta of Launchy, an open source keystroke launcher, adds support for Mac OS X.

Several weeks back, we noted that Google had acquired reMail, and had placed founder Gabor Cselle and others from the reMail team on other Google projects. The reMail app distinguished itself from the iPhone's built-in Mail.app in several ways: It could download all of your emails in a way that takes up a much smaller footprint than in Mail.app on the iPhone. Its search feature is much faster...

The Nokia and Intel joined hands  for a open source platform called Meego. Meego is a combination Of Intels Mobiln and Nokias Maemo. The Meego official site has revealed that the first meego release for Nokia ...

Theres some good news if you want to create an e-mail application for the iPhone but dont want to start from scratch. After being acquired by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) last month, reMail has made its code open source. As someone who is passionate about mobile e-mail, my hope is that developers interested in making e-mail-related apps

In February, Google acquired the iPhone mail search app reMail--and promptly removed it from the App Store. On Friday, reMail developer Gabor Csell announced...

Last month Google acquired reMail and the app was removed from the App Store. Today the app has been made open source.