Have spare time, dev skills? See what open-source projects need your help with this flowchart

We all know open-source software is a good thing and good people give back to their communities. This site just makes it really easy to start following through on those values.

How Facebook got into the mobile OS game without actually building a mobile OS

Facebook Home isn’t a mobile operating system. But normal users who buy or download the Home experience won’t know or care. They’ll suddenly have Facebook phones that look, feel, and behave totally different from Android phones.

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I am taking over VentureBeat & declaring today ‘Nerd Day’

I hope you enjoy Nerd Day on VentureBeat. If you do not enjoy it, please send us an email with the subject line: "I hate nerds, so it makes no sense that I spend so much time on the Internet."

Codecademy completes PHP course, ‘ready for prime time’

The free learn-programming-online site now has 11 modules and 86 lessons in all things PHP from the basics to standard if/else logic flow to arrays, functions, and advanced object-oriented programming.

Anonymous starts Indiegogo campaign to raise cash for an Anonymous news network, promptly gets attacked

Why not be a little creative? For $1,000, we'll hack the DOJ. For $5,000, the FBI. And, for a platinum-level contribution of $10,000, we'll hack the CIA and finally reveal the truth about Area 51.

Newest version of Visual Studio (including a new, blue UI) available for download now

Microsoft's actually quite magical IDE now contains features that let devs focus on agile planning, Windows Store development, quality enablement, and line-of-business development.

If Home becomes popular, non-Facebook Android devs will get slaughtered

Facebook has said for years that it intends to become the very best distribution platform for mobile developers;. Today, it's turning that promise into a threat.

Mark Zuckerberg: The great thing about Android is that it’s so open (unlike iOS)

Facebook Home is in the house, and it's taking over Android. But what about Apple's iOS?

Braintree launches Venmo Touch to ‘be as important for next decade of commerce as PayPal was for last’

Payments company Braintree has publicly released Venmo Touch and made updates to its iOS software developer kit (SDK) to make mobile purchases as easy as Facebook Connect.

Gnip pulling public posts from Instagram, Reddit for dark marketing magic

“We spend all day talking to people who are finding goldmines in this data," said the Gnip's COO. Now, the company has just opened a ton of new goldmines.