The people behind Wikipedia have launched the Search Wikia project, which hopes to compete with the major search engines through a mixture of large community and sound financial backing.

Jono Bacon recently announced that the LugRadio Live UK show will be the final show. In his announcement, Jono said, "I am massively proud of what we have managed to achieve. Over 100 shows, 7 full-time presenters and countless guest presenters, 200+ hours of audio, 100+ guests, 2million+ downloads, 1000+ forums members, 40000+ forums posts, 5 live events in two countries, 5000+ emails to the show and an incredible community."

LiPS (the Linux Phone Standard Forum) and the LiMo Foundation (Linux Mobile), which both seek to promote Linux on the cellphone market, have now official joined forces.

Kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has invited other kernel developers to sign a petition against closed source kernel modules.

If you can't make it to USENIX next week, you can still participate online. Linux New Media will be broadcasting all talks of the "Invited Talks" track on USENIX '08 via live streaming from June 25 to June 27.

A world record attempt has been launched today: starting at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, the new Firefox 3 browser became available for downloading. And that's not all: the makers of Firefox are seeking to make their way into the Guinness Book of Records.

Michael Ogawa from the University of California has devised a technique for visualizing the historic development of software projects with his Code Swarm experiment.