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43-510: Webmin, written by Jamie Cameron, was first released as version 0.1 in October 1997. It was originally written during the time that Cameron administered a DNS server and needed an easy-to-use interface to allow users to make changes to the DNS records without giving them root access to the server. Over time, various themes, a dashboard that displays CPU, RAM, and disk space usage with visual gauges, and

86-506: A wiki for documentation, developer and user mailing lists , user-support forums , user-written reviews and ratings, a news bulletin , micro-blog for publishing project updates, and other features. SourceForge was one of the first to offer this service free of charge to open-source projects. Since 2012, the website has run on Apache Allura software. SourceForge offers free hosting and free access to tools for developers of free and open-source software . As of September 2020 ,

129-463: A concern in that user information has sometimes been exposed to governments and courts without the prior consent of the user who generated such supposedly private information, usually through subpoenas or court orders . Examples can be found in Wikileaks related Twitter subpoenas , as well as various other cases. Security concerns have been voiced within the business world since there

172-750: A location-based microblogging service. Pownce , developed by the Digg founder Kevin Rose among others, integrated microblogging with file sharing and event invitations. Pownce was merged into SixApart in December 2008. Other social networking websites Facebook , MySpace , LinkedIn , Diaspora , JudgIt and XING , also have their own microblogging feature, better known as "status updates". Status updates are usually more restricted than actual microblogging in terms of writing. Any activity involving posting short messages can be classified as microblogging although it

215-629: A month) and on August 6, 2012 (for several days). In November 2008, SourceForge was sued by the French collection society Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF) for hosting downloads of the file sharing application Shareaza . In 2009 SourceForge announced a new site platform known as Allura, which would be an extensible, open source platform licensed under the Apache License , utilizing components such as Python and MongoDB , and offering REST APIs . In June 2012

258-617: A project. SourceForge's traditional revenue model is through advertising banner sales on their site. In 2006 SourceForge Inc. reported quarterly takings of US$ 6.5 million. In 2009 SourceForge reported a gross quarterly income of US$ 23 million through media and e-commerce streams. In 2011 a revenue of US$ 20 million was reported for the combined value of the SourceForge, slashdot and freecode holdings, prior to SourceForge's acquisition. Since 2013 additional revenue generation schemes, such as bundleware models, have been trialled, with

301-505: A sharp growth in the number of social-media marketers . The Sysomos study shows that this specific group of marketers on Twitter is much more active than the general user population, with 15% of marketers following over 2,000 people and only 0.29% of the Twitter public following more than 2,000 people. Microblogging has also become an important source of real-time news updates during socio-political revolutions and crisis situations, such as

344-508: A sidebar with a search function were also added. Financial support for the Webmin project came from the Linux distribution companies Caldera and MSC Linux, as well as many user contributions of code patches, hundreds of modules, language translations, and user suggestions. In 2019, a backdoor was discovered which would allow a remote attacker to execute malicious commands with root privileges on

387-637: A specific field or was related to celebrities. Several studies have tried to analyze user behavior on microblogging services. They include extensive studies on Twitter in 2009, by researchers at Harvard Business School and at Sysomos . Results indicated that for services such as Twitter, a small group of active users generate most of the activity. Sysomos' Inside Twitter survey, which was based on more than 11 million users, showed that in 2009, 10% of Twitter users accounted for 86% of all activity. Twitter, Facebook, and other microblogging services have become platforms for marketing and public relations , with

430-724: A statement, GIMP called SourceForge a "once useful and trustworthy place to develop and host FLOSS applications" that now faces "a problem with the ads they allow on their sites". In May 2015, SourceForge took control of pages for five projects that had migrated to other hosting sites and replaced the project downloads with adware -laden downloads, including GIMP. This came despite SourceForge's commitment in November 2013 to never bundle adware with project downloads without developers' consent. On June 1, 2015, SourceForge claimed that they had stopped coupling "third party offers" with unmaintained SourceForge projects. Since this announcement

473-402: A variety of developers and can create a positive feedback loop . As a project's activity rises, SourceForge.net's internal ranking system makes it more visible to other developers through SourceForge directory and Enterprise Directory. Given that many open-source projects fail due to lack of developer support, exposure to such a large community of developers can continually breathe new life into

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516-603: A very basic GUI for server administration. The Webmin Minecraft server is free and open source with no limitations on simultaneous players. SourceForge SourceForge is a web service founded by Geoffrey B. Jeffery, Tim Perdue, and Drew Streib in November 1999. The software provides a centralized online platform for managing and hosting open-source software projects, and comparing and reviewing business software. It provides source code repository hosting, bug tracking , mirroring of downloads for load balancing ,

559-414: A wide range of fields. Moreover, these services store various metadata from these posts, such as location and time. Aggregated analysis of this data includes different dimensions like space, time, theme, sentiment, network structure etc., and gives researchers an opportunity to understand social perceptions of people in the context of certain events of interest. Microblogging also promotes authorship. On

602-545: Is a form of blogging using short posts without titles known as microposts (or status updates on a minority of websites like Meta Platforms '). Microblogs "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links", which may be the major reason for their popularity. Some popular social networks such as X (Twitter) , Threads , Tumblr , Mastodon and Instagram can be viewed as collections of microblogs. As with traditional blogging, users post about topics ranging from

645-558: Is a quick and dirty stream of consciousness, a bit like a remaindered links style linklog but with more than just links. They remind me of an older style of blogging, back when people did sites by hand, before Movable Type made post titles all but mandatory, blog entries turned into short magazine articles, and posts belonged to a conversation distributed throughout the entire blogosphere . Robot Wisdom and Bifurcated Rivets are two older style weblogs that feel very much like these tumblelogs with minimal commentary, little cross-blog chatter,

688-464: Is arguably a major issue because users may broadcast sensitive personal information to anyone who views their public feed. An example would be Google's Buzz platform, which incited controversy in 2010 by automatically publicizing users' email contacts as "followers". Google later amended those settings. On centralized services, where all of the microblog's information flows through one point (such as servers operated by X (Twitter) , privacy has been

731-470: Is best known for providing revision control systems such as CVS , SVN , Bazaar , Git and Mercurial . Major features (amongst others) include project wikis , metrics and analysis, access to a MySQL database , and unique sub-domain URLs (in the form http:// project-name .sourceforge.net ). The vast number of users at SourceForge.net (over three million as of 2013) exposes prominent projects to

774-407: Is built around over 110 standard modules , which have an interface to the configuration files and the Webmin server, which makes it simple to add new functionality. Due to Webmin's modular design, it is possible for anyone who is interested to write plugins for desktop configuration. Webmin allows for controlling many machines through a single interface, or seamless login on other Webmin hosts on

817-520: Is potential for sensitive work information to be publicized on microblogging sites such as Twitter. That includes information that may be subject to a superinjunction . Integration could be the hardest issue to overcome since someone can be argued that corporate culture must change to accommodate microblogging. An internet architecture called OStatus has been developed so that microblogging can occur seamlessly across multiple corporate platforms. This protocol has evolved into ActivityPub , on which

860-698: Is usually not considered a microblogging "site" or "service" if it is a secondary, rather than principal service, provided there. Services such as Lifestream and Snapchat will aggregate microblogs from multiple social networks into a single list, but other services, such as Ping.fm , will send out the microblog to multiple social networks. Services such as Instagram and Whatsapp showcase 'status update' features for users to quickly engage with one another Non-Chinese microblogging services, such as X(Twitter), Facebook, Plurk and Tumblr are censored in China . Chinese Weibo services such as Sina Weibo are available to

903-672: The 2008 Mumbai terror attacks or the 2009 Iran protests . The short nature of updates allow users to post news items quickly, reaching an audience in seconds. Clay Shirky argues that those services have the potential to result in an information cascade , which prompts fencesitters to turn into activists. Microblogging has noticeably revolutionized the way information is consumed. It has empowered citizens themselves to act as sensors or sources of information that could lead to consequences and influence, or even cause, media coverage. People share what they observe in their surroundings, information about events, and their opinions about topics from

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946-527: The Chinese people , offering similar functionality to X(Twitter) and Facebook. They provide microposting, allow users to comment on each other's posts, allow posting with graphical emoticons , and support inclusion of images, music and video files. A survey by the Data Center of China Internet from 2010 showed that Chinese microblog users most often pursued content that was created by friends or experts in

989-599: The Mastodon federated platform has been based since version 1.6, and on which more and more platforms making up the Fediverse are based. Users of these platforms are members of a specific instance running one of the software of the Fediverse, which can interoperate as a federated social network, allowing users on different nodes to interact with each other. Live blogging is a derivative of microblogging that generates

1032-601: The Allura project was donated to the Apache Software Foundation as Apache Allura. In September 2012 SourceForge, Slashdot , and Freecode were acquired from Geeknet by the online job site Dice.com for $ 20 million, and incorporated into a subsidiary known as Slashdot Media. In July 2015 Dice announced that it planned to sell SourceForge and Slashdot, and in January 2016 the two sites were sold to

1075-512: The San Diego–based BIZX, LLC for an undisclosed amount. In December 2019, BIZX rebranded as Slashdot Media . On September 26, 2012, it was reported that attackers had compromised a SourceForge mirror, and modified a download of phpMyAdmin to add security exploits. In July 2013, SourceForge announced that it would provide project owners with an optional feature called DevShare , which places closed-source ad-supported content into

1118-423: The SourceForge repository claimed to host more than 502,000 projects and had more than 3.7 million registered users. SourceForge is a web-based source code repository . It acts as a centralized location for free and open-source software projects. It was the first to offer this service for free to open-source projects. Project developers have access to centralized storage and tools for managing projects, though it

1161-492: The SourceForge repository hosted more than 300,000 projects and had more than 3 million registered users, although not all were active. The domain sourceforge.net attracted at least 33 million visitors by August 2009 according to a Compete.com survey. In its terms of use, SourceForge states that its services are not available to users in countries on the sanction list of the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria). Since 2008

1204-700: The SourceForge site was released as free software in January 2000 and was later named SourceForge Alexandria. The last release under a free license was made in November 2001; after the dot-com bubble , SourceForge was later powered by the proprietary SourceForge Enterprise Edition , a separate product re-written in Java which was marketed for offshore outsourcing . SourceForge has been temporarily banned in China three times: in September 2002, in July 2008 (for about

1247-535: The barest whiff of a finished published work, almost pure editing...just a way to quickly publish the "stuff" that you run across every day on the web Manton Reece, founder of Micro.blog , defines Microblogging thus: A microblog post should have these qualities: However, by 2006 and 2007, the word microblog was used more widely for services provided by established sites like Tumblr and Twitter , some of which do not have RSS-like feeds. As of May 2007, there were 111 microblogging sites in various countries. Among

1290-612: The binary installers and gives the project part of the ad revenue. Opinions of this new feature varied; some complained about users not being as aware of what they are getting or being able to trust the downloaded content, whereas others saw it as a reasonably harmless option that keeps individual projects and users in control. In November 2013, GIMP , a free image manipulation program, removed its download from SourceForge, citing misleading download buttons that potentially confuse customers as well as SourceForge's own Windows installer, which bundles potentially unwanted programs with GIMP. In

1333-494: The bundling of installers after SourceForge was sold to BizX in early 2016. On May 17, 2016, SourceForge announced that they were now scanning all projects for malware and displaying warnings on projects detected to have malware. Since 2002, SourceForge has featured a pair of Projects of the Month , one chosen by its community and the other by its staff, but these have not been updated since December 2020. As of May 2013 ,

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1376-472: The goal of increasing SourceForge's revenue. The result has in some cases been the appearance of malware bundled with SourceForge downloads. On February 9, 2016, SourceForge announced they had eliminated their DevShare program practice of bundling installers with project downloads. Negative community reactions to the partnership program led to a review of the program, which was nonetheless opened up to all SourceForge projects on February 7, 2014. The program

1419-485: The machine running Webmin. This backdoor exploit was present on versions 1.882-1.921, when a network admin would enable the password expiration policy. Developers of Webmin believed that the backdoor being introduced was the result of a malicious injection to the code via the online source code repository SourceForge . Since its release, the Webmin user interface, its appearance, and its many features have changed dramatically using code that has been completely rewritten over

1462-463: The micro-blogging platform Tumblr , the reblogging feature links the post back to the original creator. The findings of a study by Emily Pronin of Princeton University and Daniel Wegner of Harvard University may explain the rapid growth of microblogging. The study suggests a link between short bursts of activity and feelings of joy, power, and creativity. Microblogging is not without issues, such as privacy , security , and integration . Privacy

1505-401: The most notable services are Twitter , Tumblr , Mastodon , Micro.blog , FriendFeed , Plurk , Jaiku and identi.ca . Different versions of services and software with microblogging features have been developed. Plurk has a timeline view that integrates video and picture sharing. Flipter uses microblogging as a platform for people to post topics and gather audience's opinions. PingGadget is

1548-459: The same subnet or LAN . Webmin is released under the BSD license . If a plugin for certain tasks is not available, it is possible to open a terminal and perform various task through a command line interface (CLI). This is especially useful if using SSH (or similar) is not an option. While Webmin was included in the official repositories of some Linux distributions ( Debian and Ubuntu ), it

1591-655: The secure server used for making contributions to the site has blocked access from those countries. In January 2010, the site had blocked all access from those countries, including downloads. Any IP address that appeared to belong to one of those countries could not use the site. By the following month, SourceForge relaxed the restrictions so that individual projects could indicate whether or not SourceForge should block their software from download to those countries. This, however, had been reversed by November 2020 for North Korea and other countries. Crimea has been blocked since February 1, 2015. Micro-blog Microblogging

1634-572: The simple, such as "what I'm doing right now", to the thematic, such as "sports cars". Commercial microblogs also exist to promote websites, services, and products and to promote collaboration within an organization. Some microblogging services offer privacy settings, which allow users to control who can read their microblogs or alternative ways of publishing entries besides the web-based interface. These may include text messaging , instant messaging , e-mail , digital audio , or digital video . The first micro-blogs were known as tumblelogs . The term

1677-443: The subsequent versions.This includes the overhaul brought by Webmin 2.0, which enforced strict HTTP Strict Transport Security policy for SSL, and gave options to users upgrading from older versions. Webmin is largely based on Perl , running as its own process and web server . It defaults to TCP port 10000 for communicating, and can be configured to use SSL if OpenSSL is installed with additional required Perl modules. Webmin

1720-422: Was canceled by new owners BIZX, LLC on February 9, 2016; On May 17, 2016, they announced that it would scan all projects for malware and display warnings on downloads. SourceForge, founded in 1999 by VA Software , was the first provider of a centralized location for free and open-source software developers to control and manage software development and offering this service without charge. The software running

1763-518: Was coined by why the lucky stiff in a blog post on April 12, 2005, while describing Leah Neukirchen's Anarchaia. Blogging has mutated into simpler forms (specifically, link- and the mob- and AUD- and vid- variant), but I don't think I've seen a blog like Chris Neukirchen's [sic] Anarchaia, which fudges together a bunch of disparate forms of citation (links, quotes, flickerings) into a very long and narrow and distracted tumblelog. Jason Kottke described tumblelogs on October 19, 2005: A tumblelog

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1806-487: Was made, a number of other developers have reported that their SourceForge projects had been taken over by SourceForge staff accounts (but have not had binaries edited), including nmap and VLC media player . On June 18, 2015, SourceForge announced that SourceForge-maintained mirrored projects were removed and anticipated the formation of a Community Panel to review their mirroring practices. No such Community Panel ever materialized, but SourceForge discontinued DevShare and

1849-508: Was removed from those because Webmin was not compatible with the way that the distributions' packages handled configuration files and caused unexpected issues with systems. Webmin can be expanded by installing modules, which can be custom made. Aside from this, there are two other major projects that extend the functionality of Webmin: Webmin released Minecraft Server Module 1.0 in January 2013, and version 1.1 in March 2013. The module presents

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