Posted by bordalix
Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:22:00 GMT
Seems like RIAA is going to win another battle,
closing the p2p eDonkey network. In a testimony at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Hearing on the future of P2P, MetaMachine president Sam Yagan
said his company (owner of the eDonkey network) was throwing in the towel.
The battle is lost, but the war continues:
eDonkey is a server based p2p network, so all you need to shut it off is going for the servers. eDonkey is the most used p2p network, as stated by
Slyck, so this decision seems to be a huge drawback in the war.
But if we look at the remaining networks, like
FastTrack,
Gnutella or
BitTorrent, they all share the "no servers, use supernodes instead" implementation, there is, the supernode functionality is built into the client; if a powerful computer with a fast network connection runs the client software, it will automatically become a supernode, effectively acting as a temporary indexing server for other, slower clients.
And since supernodes come and go, all over the IP space, like digital mushroms, they are much harder to identify and shut down. So, light infantry is down, but we still have tanks and planes for the next battle.
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Posted by bordalix
Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:21:00 GMT
I heard this term for the first time last week in Boston. I understood "sites that use two or more external sources to provide a new service". The first reference was
Mappr, which uses Google Maps and Flickr APIs to geographically organize Flickr photos. But mashups are more than this, they have a huge fun potencial, as stated by this Zdnet's
post.
Update: While thinking on the subject, I decided to make my first movie mashup: five pixar movies and a soundtrack, and you have it, an all new video clip for
Birds of Prey by Fat Boy Slim. While you wait for the download (6MB for a 6m49s clip) you can take a look at the
Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix.
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Posted by bordalix
Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:19:00 GMT
An astonishing presentation from Sxip CEO Dick Hardt, about Identity 2.0. Very well contextualized within the
Web 2.0 vision, and with great style (marketeers should also take a peek for new presentation ideas). If you have 15 minutes and 13 seconds (plus download time) watch it
here.
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Posted by bordalix
Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:17:00 GMT
AIM, ICQ, MSN e Yahoo in a web browser near by with
meebo.
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Posted by bordalix
Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:16:00 GMT
Today, Google released is
blog search service. It's a clean and useful service, and it was very funny for me to read other people references to my posts: i don't have trackbacks.
Meanwhile, a startup debuted in cyberspace today:
truveo. They claim to have a technology which allows them to visual crawl through the Internet. Or, in more dumb words, they have crwalers able to watch movies and other visual content in the Internet, and categorized it. The few experiences I made resulted in impressive results. Try it yourself:
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Posted by bordalix
Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:13:00 GMT
Ever got stucked with a bootable CD in your Mac, unable to eject it, and wondering what the hell are you going to do now? Just press (and hold) your mouse button when booting, all media will be ejected. This and a lot more tricks in the
Magical Macintosh Key SequencesDoes .mac worth the money you pay for it? Well, this guy thinks not, so he replace it!! Read this and learn how to do it yourself
If you live in Portugal (like me), you will have to wait a lot for the iPod nano. Meanwhile, why not do one yourself? Read the instructions, print, cut and fold, and sing your favorite song
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Posted by bordalix
Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:12:00 GMT
If you have work to do, don't go to this
link. You have been warned.
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Posted by bordalix
Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:12:00 GMT
One word to caracterize
this: brilliant!
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Posted by bordalix
Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:10:00 GMT
original article
here, bold it's my contribution to it:
PayPal, the global online payment service
(is Visa and Google sleeping on the job?), today announced new micropayments processing fees for digital goods. The new pricing will provide merchants
(read porn site owners) with a more affordable way to process payments for low-cost digital content such as video games
(read porn films), online greeting cards, news articles, mobile phone content and digital music. PayPal's micropayments pricing is designed to give customers the convenience of a-la-carte purchases
(read porn a-la-carte), such as 99-cent downloadable ringtones
(read porn movies), without having to sign up for annual subscriptions
(no one needs to know you love porn) or pre-funded payment accounts
(porn when you want, no need to pre-pay it).
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Posted by bordalix
Sun, 04 Sep 2005 12:09:00 GMT
So, yesterday Apple announced:
- the iTunes phone, nothing new, since SonyEricsson did it previously. And the fact of beeing iTunes vs Other Music Store maybe not an advantage after all, since operators are denying to buy the iTunes Phone: they want a peace of the cake in the music market. Let's wait and see what the future reserves to us;
- iTunes 5, with some really neat new features. Still have to install and try it;
- iPod nano, with one of the best claims ever: impossibly small.
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