I’ll have to keep an eye on this … “The Waypath Project is an attempt to network the weblog community, connecting weblogs that share common themes, ideas, and topics. “

“An attack on the software license behind the Linux operating system has stirred
up a free software controversy in Washington.”
Congressman
Criticized For Attacking Free Software Movement Information Week
Bid to
outlaw GPL The Age
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From: Google News

You all are probably aware of this and excuse me if someone mentioned this before, but I found a new and interesting article on XML.com by Matthew Langham and Carsten Ziegeler, which describe the portal components they built and donated to the Apache Cocoon Project. The donation consisted of components and tools for authentication (originally called “sunRise”) and portals (originally called “sunSpot”). [ More here ]

I found this while paging through the new releases on SourceForge:

“You would like to have your own erotic-porno-sex web site but you don’t want to spend time on it? This project will create it for you, it will browse other erotic-porno-sex web sites and it will put their pictures on your!” [ more here ]

“PeerCast uses the Gnutella protocol as the basis for all communications, and complies (mostly) to the Gnutella 0.6 protocol. It works in much the same way as other Gnutella clients except instead of downloading files, the users download streams. These streams are exchanged in real-time with other users.”

From: PeerCast.org

IIS takes another hit: “eWEEK Labs compared the performance of Apache 2.0 and Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Information Services 5.0, both running on Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Apache kept pace with IIS during the entire test, which means that sites that move from IIS to Apache 2.0 on Windows won’t have to worry about taking a performance hit.”

From: Apache 2.0 Beats IIS at Its Own Game

interesting, this sounds a lot like my buddy John’s old company ConsentCache: “Ping Identity (PingID) is an open, principles based digital identity project focused on ensuring that the rights and privileges we enjoy with our real world identities are not lost, changed or abused with respect to our digital identities. We stand for personal choice, privacy, security and control while ensuring maximum interoperability, openness, accessibility and an adherence to open standards.”

looks like the W3C is taking Third Voice’s web site “annotation” idea, opening the development and splashing it with Metadata to make way for the Semantic Web …interesting:

“Annotea is part of the W3C’s Semantic Web project, which aims to overhaul the basic language of the Web to make categorizing and describing online information faster and easier.”

From: A standard for e-comments

Czech company Blokman Trading s.r.o. just released an alpha version of the Linux 2.4 kernel for the original PlayStation.

More news here: PlayStation branches out

find out today @ 11 am [PDT] during a live webcast when Sun’s Bill Joy and John Gage unveil the P2P philosophy and vision of Project JXTA.

from what i’ve read, “Jxta will offer features such as the ability to create communities, monitoring of the network, fast polling of nodes, and encryption”