Tag: PARTICIPATORYCULTURE

I got a little notification in my Inbox today telling me that a new version of Democracy Player is out. Version 0.8.4.1 (note to software developers: when your version numbers start to look like IP addresses, they've gotten out of hand) is available for WIndows, Mac, or Linux. The biggest improvements to the RSS-and-BitTorrent-enabled internet TV viewer from the Participatory Culture FOundation ...

We mentioned DTV a couple of times before, and what caught my eye wasn't another video content aggregator, it was the surrounding toolset that had been developed to fill that aggregator with usable content (more on this in a moment). DTV is now Democracy player, and there is now a Windows version. Just like the iPod had to become Windows compatible to achieve critical mass, perhaps now Democracy ...

The Participatory Culture Foundation has launched a new site called Bounty County where they list coding bounties for free and open source software. The current bounties are everywhere from $30 to $4,500 for tasks great and small and can be navigated by project, bounty amount, and platform. New bounties are added every day. ...