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Freeloader (exe)

Freeloader is here - Distribute your band's MP3's with ease. Are you in a band, or do you make music independently? If so, then Freeloader is the solution for you. Freeloader is a program which you can distribute to your listeners, which automatically checks your Web site for new releases,...

Tags: FreeLoader Inc., Music, DuckNet Software, Web Site Development, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-06-17

FreeLoader: Scavenging Desktop Storage Resources for Scientific Data

High-end computing is suffering a data deluge from experiments, simulations, and apparatus that creates overwhelming application dataset sizes. End-user workstations - despite more processing power than ever before - are ill-equipped to cope with such data demands due to insufficient secondary storage space and I/O rates. Meanwhile, a large portion...

Tags: Desktop, FreeLoader Inc., Association For Computing Machinery, Data Access, Computing, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2005-11-18

Additional Resources

Yahoo! buy would give Microsoft ownership of open source e-mail, projects, code. Ugh.

Yahoo! buy would give Microsoft ownership of open source e-mail, projects, code. Ugh.Open source people should man/woman up and pay for what they useOpen source folks... stop being stingy and pay for what you received. Nothing in life is feel and you should stop trying to leave on a free...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., open source

Discussion threads 2008-02-01

Should ISPs block P2P?

Should ISPs block P2P?Blocking P2P or any other protocol would mean they are no ISPISP provide acces o Internet. They do not provide acces to Http protocol to acces internet, or http+pop. they provide acces to all of it, that is an IP adress, and support for the...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Peer to peer (P2P), P2P, Internet Service Provider, bandwidth, Internet

Discussion threads 2007-11-23

One man's green tech Top 10 list

Just in time for the weekend, here's a fun dispatch out of the United Kingdom about some simple gadgets that can raise your personal green tech IQ.As you would expect, most of the products are focused only on our British cousins. But a couple are gettable in the United States,...

Tags: Green Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-08-24

Selling ads on Works because no one will buy it

Selling ads on Works because no one will buy itAnnoy the user strategy?Anyone who has an underpowered computer running windows (yes, I still have a couple of people using W98), Abiword for Windows is an excellent efficient word processor for these machines. Of course, if you want a word...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Word processors, advertisement, Phil, spreadsheet, Microsoft Office, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-02

Freeloader.com Games Widget (widget)

Allows you to browse and play freeloader.coms huge collection of free online games. View latest releases or real time charts, all via the Yahoo Widget Engine. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Release, Stuart Brown, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-06-20

Virtualization and confusing array of Vista legal restrictions to haunt Microsoft and users alike

Virtualization and confusing array of Vista legal restrictions to haunt Microsoft and users alikeGordian knotYou're making this much too hard. Yes, the equitable solution is going to involve hard choices and difficult trade-offs, but "the equitable solution" has nothing to do with the actual situation. Microsoft is calling...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, virtualization, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-31

Google PageRank: Biased and fundamentally flawed?

Is the infamous Google PageRank anti-democratic? Jakob Nielsen says it like it is, not how people want to believe it is. His “Search Engines as Leeches on the Web” post from earlier in the year is a must-read cutting-through-the-hype antidote to search engine Google worship:Search engines extract too much of...

Tags: participation inequality, Web

Blog posts 2006-10-10

YouTube, Digg, MySpace: How much is a non-paying 'user' worth?

YouTube, Digg, MySpace: How much is a non-paying 'user' worth?Myspace is an abomination.'nuff said.An advertising problemEssentially, social networking sites are chosen by people who don't want to pay anything.Not exactly the best audience for advertisers ;-)The Web 2.0 EconomyI'm facinated by the Web 2.0 economy. It makes money by harvesting...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Digg, MySpace, abomination, social networking, Web 2.0, Web, advertisement

Discussion threads 2006-07-26

Digg users spurred to register and contribute

My story yesterday, “Digg’s 8 million “social freeloaders”, in which I discuss the Social Web’s very low user contribution ratio, has spurred passive Digg readers to become active Digg contributors!Registered, active Digg user “kazzyD”, submitted my story to Digg yesterday and he engaged the Digg community about their “digging roles”....

Tags: Digg

Blog posts 2006-06-24

So many video sharing sites, so few video uploaders

YouTube, “a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience”, has spawned a lot of competitors. There are 173 online video plays, including 85 that host and share videos, according to Om Malik’s “The coming Web video shakeout.”Malik traces the challenges of...

Tags: video

Blog posts 2006-06-20

Net Neutrality non-compromise

Net Neutrality non-compromiseRight, ignorance at its best"Any data packet will be equal to every other data packet, regardless of what kind of data it carries or where it came from"Right, and an ambulance us equal to a street racer. VoIP which uses 1% of the traffic somehow has to...

Tags: Net Neutrality, telegraph, Russ, carrier, INTERNET IS, Internet

Discussion threads 2006-06-18

Incentivizing users to generate content

YourMTB.com, a mountain biking enthusiast site recently launched by Enthusiast Group, a citizen media venture, is hoping to jump-start enthusiast contributions through incentives:Post your photo—we’ll give $5 to IMBA. Do something good for mountain biking. Share a picture of yourself. We're beginning to build a community of mountain bikers…What better...

Tags: contribution, user contribution

Blog posts 2006-05-16

Why an open standard for DRM won't prevent the DRM trainwreck

Why an open standard for DRM won't prevent the DRM trainwreckObviouslyI thought the point of this article was obvious to everybody (which just shows that I still overestimate the intelligence of "everybody".) To protect something, you must limit who has a key, and make certain there are no methods...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Advertising & Promotion, open standard, digital-rights management, media company

Discussion threads 2005-12-12

Yahoo using online behavior to target ads

Yahoo using online behavior to target adsSo when at Yahoo, you will bespied upon.This is the day Yahoo IM is removed from my PC.What's so bad about it?You visit Edmunds.com and you get car ads. You visit Yahoo Finance, and you get stock-trader ads. Nobody thinks those are an invasion...

Tags: SECURITY, Yahoo! Inc., advertisement, privacy

Discussion threads 2005-12-02

Power line broadband gets popular with tech firms

Power line broadband gets popular with tech firmsThey will eventually make this work ...And it will further reduce the price of broadband as increased competition forces prices down.BPL will never workThe "interference problems" that this article refers to so glibly, should be read as "violations of physics rules". If you...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, broadband over power line, powerline, broadband, Power-line broadband, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-08-24