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What is the Definition of Freelance Work?

A freelancer or (freelance worker) is a self-employed person working in a profession or trade in which full-time employment is also common. The word’s etymology derives from the medieval term for a mercenary, a “free lance,” which literally described a knight who was not attached to any particular lord, and could be hired for a given task.

A common question, “What is the definition of freelance work” can be answered very simply - it is work offered on a part time basis to more than one company or individual.

When times are hard, whether because of the general economic climate or because of a particular need (a holiday, for example) most people have a skill or ability that they can offer. Something as simple as dog walking can often produce good financial rewards. Naturally, most people can walk a dog but how many would think of offering that service on a freelance, paid-for basis?

The number of small jobs that many people would happily pay someone else to do has often been a great source of charity collections. Think about ‘bob-a-job’ if you are British or cookie sales to raise funds if you are American.

What can you do that other people might rather pay to have done for them? Sweeping the drive? Mowing the lawn? Weeding the garden? Trimming the hedges? Cleaning out the garage? Cleaning the cooker? Cleaning the house? Cleaning the car? Polishing brasses? There is no end to the domestic work that a competent freelance worker cannot turn into a source of cash.

Bitter Foes Microsoft and Linux Unite Against Software Rules

The mutual disdain between Microsoft Corp. and Linux, an open-source computer operating system, is unrivaled.

But new rules for software contracts put out by The American Law Institute have united the enemies as part of a growing protest of tech companies and their lawyers. The most controversial of the guidelines is that software vendors must guarantee buyers that there are no hidden flaws in the software.

Industry lawyers say the rules will create undue product liability for companies and developers because of the inherently flawed nature of software.

“It creates an unrealistic standard and a lot of litigation,” said Mark Radcliffe, a DLA Piper lawyer who’s worked to oppose the new rules. “Any project that has Microsoft and Linux on the same side, you know there’s something wrong.”

The Principles of Law of Software Contracts, as they are called, were passed in mid-May by ALI, the venerable and scholarly group that clarifies laws. The principles are not law, but they serve to guide judges, who frequently cite them in decisions, and may be adopted by states.

Robert Hillman, a Cornell Law School professor who headed the multiyear project for guidelines to clarify software contract law, said the criticism that the changes will bring a lot of litigation is overblown.

“That’s the cry of anyone who opposes any law — that it’s going to create litigation,” he said. “Fraudulent concealment law is as old and established as any law, which is all we’re doing here.”

The debate divides consumer protection advocates, who say software companies should be liable for the quality of their products, from the industry, which calls the principles unnecessary and potentially crippling.

Hillman said that “users of software are very supportive of this, and for the most part we haven’t heard from a lot of the industry.”

But both Microsoft and Linux — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once called Linux a “cancer” and open-source advocates consider Microsoft an evil empire — joined together to oppose the changes. They submitted an open letter (pdf) of protest before the principles were adopted. “There is no great failure in terms of substandard quality or unmet expectations that would justify imposition of mandatory new rules, particularly given the existing remedies under misrepresentation and consumer protection law,” the joint letter stated. Read more…

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10 reasons open source smartphones will win

The mobile industry is becoming interesting. We have finally reached a point where the smartphone is actually smart and the average user can gain serious benefits from using one.

How did this come about? In a word: competition.

When the iPhone arrived on the scene, users scrambled to get their hands on it, and competitors scrambled to make a device that would have the same appeal. It has taken a while, but the competition has arrived. Android phones, Palm Pre, BlackBerry Bold–they are all outstanding entries into this market.

But two of those entries will, in my opinion, outshine the rest for one simple reason–open source. Why is open source going to help raise these phones above the competition? Here are 10 reasons.

1. Open standards
With the iPhone, you do what Apple says, you follow Apple standards, and you use only Apple-approved apps–unless you jailbreak your phone. With both the Android-based phones and the Palm Pre, open standards are not just a bullet point or buzz phrase, they will be adhered to. And that principle will have lasting effects.

Software will be easier to develop, Web sites will load as expected and will be easier to develop for the mobile device. Hardware accessories will be more readily available.

2. More applications
As it stands, the iPhone is the king of the app. It seems Apple has an app for just about everything. But as the Android phones and the Pre begin to be more widely used, apps for those phones will multiply exponentially. Read more…

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Linux Box: Open Source On The Grow

Ann Arbor’s Linux Box, which has spent the last 10 years writing custom open-source software applications for a long list of clients, says its business is growing rapidly enough that it’s likely to boost staff by 50 percent to 20 within the next year or two.

“The future is really positive,” said Linux Box co-founder Elizabeth Ziph.

She said a recent Gartner study shows that more than half of American companies have used open source software, and the percentage is much higher overseas.

“I think almost anybody that we talk to knows about open source, and when I talked about open source five years ago
people looked at me as if I had fallen from the moon,” Ziph said.

Open source software is defined as computer software for which the source code and other rights normally reserved for copyright holders is in the public domain, or is part of a license that meets the Open Source Definition at
http://opensource.org/.

Ziph is a veteran of the software industry, starting in 1975 as a programmer at PriceWaterhouse in Boston, after getting a
bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Brooklyn College of City University of New York. She moved to Detroit to work for ANR, then Michigan Seamless Tube Division and finally landed at Comerica Bank where she stayed eight years working initially as a development manager and then as a data center and network manager. She later spent four years as associate director of technology at the University of Michigan and six years as CIO of Franklin Bank before founding LinuxBox in 1999.

“I had always worked with closed source products until shortly before founding Linux Box,” she said. “I worked with a very small bit of it at Franklin Bank, and I wondered how you’d know it was secure, how you’d get updates and how you’d make money on it. But the more I worked on it the more I decided I liked it.”

Ziph said that in working with open source, she discovered that “customers find out it gives them more power and control over what they want software to do. The vendor doesn’t have to say ‘no’ to them.”

And as for security and reliability she said, “For any function you want to do there are many open source products. You need to understand which ones are the right ones, which have the most following, which are up to date, which have an underlying architecture that is sustainable.” Read more…

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Redmond Releases Code to Linux Kernel Community

Microsoft, which has been at odds with the Linux community over the years because of intellectual property issues, said on Monday it has released 20,000 lines of Linux code to the Linux kernel community.

Available for inclusion in the Linux tree, the code includes three Linux device drivers; it will be available to both the Linux community and customers. It will enhance the performance of the Linux operating system when virtualized on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 virtualization software, according to Microsoft. Code will be offered under the GNU General Public License 2.

[ About two and a half years ago, Microsoft forged a Linux partnership with Novell that still generates controversy. ]

“We are seeing Microsoft communities and open source communities grow together, which is ultimately of benefit to our customers,” said Microsoft’s Sam Ramji, senior director of platform strategy in the company’s Server and Tools organization, in a statement released by the company. “The Linux community, for example, has built a platform used by many customers. So our strategy is to enhance interoperability between the Windows platform and many open source technologies, which includes Linux, to provide the choices our customers are asking for.”

“Today’s release would have been unheard of from Microsoft a few years ago but it’s a prime example that customer demand is a powerful catalyst for change,” said Ramji. Read more…

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New Study Finds Correlation Between Social Media and Financial Success

A new study released by enterprise wiki provider Wetpaint and the Altimeter Group shows that the brands most engaged in social media are also experiencing higher financial success rates than those of their non-engaged peers.To determine this relationship, the study focused on 100 companies from the 2008 BusinessWeek/Interbrand Best Global Brands survey and the various social media platforms they used like Facebook, Twitter, blogs, wikis, and forums. Although it’s difficult to prove for certain that the companies’ involvement in social media has led to their increased revenues, the implication behind the new data is that it has.

After examining the companies and their social media activity levels, the brands were ranked on an “engagement scale” where scores ranged from a high of 127 to a low of 1. Those brands that were the most engaged saw their revenue grow over the past year by 18% while the least engaged brands saw losses of negative 6%.

Four “Engagement Profiles”
The study grouped the brands into one of four engagement profiles that related to the number of channels they’re involved in and how deep that involvement is. At the top of the list are “mavens,” the brands heavily engaged in seven Read more…

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Google Earth Goes to the Moon

Just in time to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, Google has just enabled a model of the moon in Google Earth. Moon in Google Earth features a 3D model of the moon with both current and historic images, panoramic, street view-like photos, and models of numerous lunar landers, as well as guided tours with videos (one narrated by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin). Google unveiled this new layer at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. today. Any user of Google Earth 5.0 can now roam around the moon without the need to update the program. Just click on the planet button in the top toolbar and select ‘Moon.’

It’s worth noting that Google Moon already offered a Google Maps-like experience since 2005, but the 3D-view and the higher degree of interactivity (especially thanks to the embedded videos from Spacecraft Films) makes Google Earth a far better vehicle for these images. Read more…

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