November 12, 2007 12:37 PM PST
MIT wins award for its open-source Flickr application
(Credit:
MIT)
Who says open source isn't innovative? MIT just won an InfoWorld 100 award for Thalia, its enterprise "Flickr" application [PDF] used for managing images and media (e.g. print, web, lecture presentations, online exhibitions.) Thalia allows users to tag media with customizable, user-defined metadata (tags, discussion comments etc).
What powers it? OpenLaszlo and Alfresco.
MIT is integrating Thalia with Stellar, its course management system. More details on Thalia can be found here [PPT]. It's very cool.
It's also not surprising that MIT chose open-source software to build its application. After all, most of the web/Web 2.0 is built using open source. Open source is the bedrock of the 21st Century economy.
Disclosure: I work for Alfresco.
Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay. 
