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Newswire – Collaborative real-time content delivery Why Newswire? Newswire is a peer-to-peer, fully decentralized system that brings news to your desktop, within seconds after it is published. This technology gives the community the power to weave a collaborative infrastructure for the delivery of essential information to individuals in a robust, scalable and secure way. Newswire […]
[NYT] Justices to Hear Case on Sharing of Music Files The Ninth Circuit had found Napster liable because the company itself maintained and controlled the servers that searched for the digital files its users wanted to download. Grokster and StreamCast, by contrast, operate decentralized systems that allow users to find each other over the Internet […]
CNET on CommerceNet: A mysterious bidder paid $15.5 million Monday in a bankruptcy court auction of dozens of Internet-related patents–and then rushed out of the courtroom. On the United States Bankruptcy Court auction block were 39 patents owned by Commerce One, a bankrupt software company in Santa Clara, Calif., that’s in the process of shutting […]
I’ve recently gotten some kudos for my post on The Web Way: The Web Way is a philosophy toward Web-based services: They should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. They should have clean designs for user interfaces and clean designs for programming interfaces. Where it’s useful, they should embrace REST. Where it’s useful, […]
Courtesy of zLab Associate Kevin Hughes’ KevsNews: Slashdot | Decentralizing Bittorrent … “Exeem is a new file-sharing application being developed by the folks at SuprNova.org. Exeem is a decentralized BitTorrent network that basically makes everyone a Tracker. Individuals will share Torrents, and seed shared files to the network. At this time, details and the full […]
Brad DeLong quotes Andrew Samwick: …the fraction of all [US] retail sales that are conducted via E-Commerce … [is] still only 2 percent, at about $17.6 billion out of $916.5 billion last quarter. The growth rate for [US] E-Commerce is about 2-3 times the pace for total retail sales, but even though that sounds like […]
New York Times: “Congress, in its infinite wisdom, zeroed-out David Brailer’s office,” said Newt Gingrich, the Republican former House speaker, who is the founder of the Center for Health Transformation, a health policy group. “They couldn’t find $50 million to signal that David Brailer has a real job and what he’s doing is important. Frankly, […]
eWeek: Meng Wong describes a framework called Aspen under which spam is addressed by authentication, accreditation and reputation. Accreditation, according to Wong, “lets third parties vouch for senders with whom they have a prior relationship.” Reputation is more of a ratings system for senders and accreditors. This is part of a next generation email architecture: […]
Great summary by Phillip Pearson on the Feedmesh list… The feedmesh and related ping-distribution services, so far, in alphabetical order: blo.gs distributes pings in a streaming changes.xml; see http://blo.gs/cloud.php for info, or telnet to ping.blo.gs port 9999 for the stream. Info distributed: blog name, blog url, feed url, ping time NB: the stream is currently […]
eBay takes a giant leap in the Classifieds direction: a new feature that allows customers to post want ads for items they are looking to buy on its Web site.. Amazon has Wishlists, and now eBay does too… CNET: The launch of the “Want It Now” feature represents a departure from eBay’s traditional setup, which […]