July 5, 2000

Napster Fuels P2P Uproar

everything’s coming up napster … ZDNet: News: Napster fuels peer-to-peer uproar: “Venture capitalists can’t jump on the latest fad fast enough”

July 5, 2000

from slashdot:

from slashdot: jon katz’s second in a series of essays on Open Media Take Two: The Sensemakers
some interesting quotes:
“Sensemaking — organizing and transmitting data via the distributed architecture of the Net — is the big idea behind the rise of Open Media.”
“Connecting information consumers with information may become one of the defining elements of successful media in the 21st Century.”
“…help people keep up with the information most relevant to their interests”

July 3, 2000

TAZ Servers

TAZ Servers and the Rewebber Network Enabling Anonymous Publishing on the World Wide Web by Ian Goldberg and David Wagner

July 3, 2000

Eternity Service

The Eternity Service

July 3, 2000

Publius Web Publishing System

Publius is a Web publishing system that is highly resistant to censorship and provides publishers with a high degree of anonymity. Publius was the pen name used by the authors of the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. This collection of 85 articles, published pseudonymously in New York State newspapers form October 1787 through May 1788, was influential in convincing New York voters to ratify the proposed United States constitution. Publius Home Page

June 28, 2000

Yahoo Acquires eGroups

wow! “Yahoo! to Acquire eGroups” … here’s an interesting quote from the press release … “The acquisition combines the Web’s largest online community with a leading provider of email group communications.” … hmm, the web’s largest community? i wonder if AOL could dispute that statement …

June 28, 2000

Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol

i found a reference to this on slashdot … Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol could be the next HTTP or used as the foundation for creating protocols that govern distributed file-sharing applications such as Gnutella, iMesh and Freenet.

June 28, 2000

PC Expo 2000: Wireless and Handhelds

looks like wireless access and handheld devices dominate PC Expo this year. umm, maybe they should think about changing the name of the show … for example, PC Week just realized that PC isn’t “PC” anymore :-)

June 7, 2000

Rank our pets

Pinto and Pongo … Ok, yes, we are pet people :-)

June 5, 2000

Flying Pinto

look! up in the sky!
… it’s a bird!
…….. it’s a plane!
………… it’s a flying pinto
ok, i had to get at least one picture of my dog in here :-)