An interesting and exciting trend: news-industry specific open source code is being made available in the public domain; but the question is how many organisations are primed to make use of it. Read this announcement on the EveryBlock project from Adrain Holovaty, and also from the BBC. (And this is not the first time that this is being done.)


You can read more about the open-sourcing and download the code at our source code page. (Keep in mind it’ll probably make sense only if you’re a web developer/programmer.) We hope this extensive code base helps spark lots of great work.

And just a few days ago, the BBC also had also announced that it was releasing its Glow Javascript Library as open source:


……in his round up, Steve mentioned some of the open source software that the BBC has created such as Kamaelia and Glow. At the time Glow was not actually available outside the BBC, but we are happy to announce that Glow is now released under the Apache 2.0 licence.

Glow is a JavaScript library used extensively across BBC Online, and now available for anyone to download and use on their own sites.

Put simply, Glow allows web developers to easily manipulate web pages, create animations and add sophisticated "widgets" to their pages.