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Second Life: avatar sued for copyright infringement

When Second Life's makers, Linden Lab, made the decision to allow users to retain all intellectual property rights for virtual items that they created, it was always likely that the virtual world would someday be dragged into court. And that's exactly what's set to happen.As Reuters reports:Second Life entrepreneur Kevin...

Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life, Net culture

Blog posts 2007-07-04

Open source movie project moves forward

A Swarm of Angels, an ambitious open source movie project that I wrote about in March, is about to move into its next phase, which should see the community grow to 5,000 paying members from just under a thousand. The aim of the project is to create a UKP 1million...

Tags: Net culture, Social Networks, Video Sharing

Blog posts 2007-06-06

Digg founder, Kevin Rose: we'll go down fighting if that's what you want

Over the last 24 hours all hell broke loose on the social news site Digg. After a user submitted a story containing the encryption code needed to crack HD-DVDs -- which by most interpretations is illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA -- Digg received a take down notice...

Tags: Social News Sites, Net culture, Digg

Blog posts 2007-05-02

MySpace China, a place for censorship

The look and feel of MySpace China may resemble its US cousin, but its editorial policy couldnt be more different. Perhaps an inevitable concession to doing business in the country, News Corp. and its local Chinese partners have implemented filtering software to prohibit users from discussing topics such as Taiwanese...

Tags: Social Networks, Net culture, MySpace

Blog posts 2007-04-29

Help! How do I get Jason Calacanis out of my RSS reader?

Jason Calacanis, former Editor of Silicon Alley Reporter and ex-GM of Netscape, has written the ultimate link-bait post, titled: "New Calacanis link-baiting rules", which cleverly masquerades as a guide to how to get him to link to others. And its working. How do I know? Well not only is Techmeme...

Tags: Net culture

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Additional Resources

Web addresses to exend to non-English languages

Domain spoofing opportunity?I always wanted to know what they will be doing against this: http://www.z?net.com/ is actually a false domain because '?' is a Cyrillyc Small Letter Komi De insted of a Latin 'd'.Entering it in a browser causes an error today, but what will happen if they legalize non-latin...

Tags: Channel management, Keyboards, English Language, non-English-language, Web

Discussion threads 2009-10-31

News to know: iPhone; Win 7 upgrade answers; Psystar; SOA; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions Dion Hinchcliffe: Are the iPhone and social networks making...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Photograph, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Microsoft: Human error caused critical SMB2 vulnerability

did not explain why the fix was not back-ported to Windows Vista and other That very bad. I was wondering this myself when news broke that Win 7 was not vulnerable.What were they thinking? Fixing a bug and "forgetting" that other versions may actually be vulnerable?Or had they actually recorded...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Hulu Desktop, Microsoft Corp., critical SMB2 vulnerability, SMB2, SMB2 vulnerability, vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

On the future of Open Source thought leadership

After over a decade of being in the shadow of the Free Software movement and 30 years of its inflexible dogmatic principles, disruptive new Open Source thought leadership is emerging that is truly able to compromise with the realistic needs of business and end-users without carrying...

Tags: Software, Leadership, Richard Stallman, Open Source, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-08

News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...

Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager

There's been a good flow of conversation around the role of 'community management' in large companies recently, with an underlying idea that although it's a tough job things will work out if the right people are involved, although Dennis Howlett recognises the danger of burn out....

Tags: Exec, Community Manager, Underling, Underlings, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-03

Will vendors finally force SOA and BPM to mingle?

BPM and SOATake it from me, there is a rich culture of thinkers at Software AG who see the connection between BPM and SOA and the way in which technology elements can help foster both agendas.As for Jason Bloomberg's comment about the acquisition being "about" vertical expertise, let me comment...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Business process automation, Operational planning, Web services, Enterprise software, Strategy, SOA, BPM, Software AG, acquisition

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Google vs. Bing: The global battle

Huh, just 67.5%??I thought it would have been like 80-90% by now.Mr Dignan uses flawed statistics, the market is actually much more skewedAccording to Hitwise, who claims to have bigger and more unbiased samples, was Google's market share up at impressive 74%, i.e. ~14 times bigger than Bing, 4.5 times...

Tags: Google Inc., Bing, global battle

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

When will Microsoft admit the truth about software patents?

HERETIC !My patent is better than you patent!What a waste of resources!I couldn't agree with you more.Now for the sharks in the suits .... what are they to do if they have to keep their Lexus more than 6 months?Duh!I simply do not understand the warped reasoning that would make...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Intellectual property, Microsoft Corp., Protecting intellectual property, patent, software, Donald Knuth, Newton, software patent

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Can social business software transform people into a "platform"?

[caption id="attachment_685" align="aligncenter" width="475" caption="Ross Mayfield co-founder of SocialText - photo by Jemima Gibbons"][/caption]Ross Mayfield is the co-founder of SocialText, a Silicon Valley startup that has been pioneering the use of social network tools within the world of enterprise IT. It might seem that...

Tags: Software, Business Software, Social Software, Collaboration, Wiki, Online Communications, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Shock Horror 'Social Media': Who Will Save/Train the Children?

Parents with Save / Train, that's what they are there for.for many parents today, this is new to them since the older you get, the less change you want to see. At a younger age, you're more inclined to adapt. Another thing is, more parents are getting home...

Tags: Save/Train, social media, Horror

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Enterprise 2.0 ROI Metrics: One Size Doesn't Fit All

'The ROI of Online Customer Service communities' by Forrester customer experience and relationship management analyst Natalie Petouhoff is a $US 1,999 'Total Economic Impactâ„¢ Analysis' TEI report. Mike Krigsman over at his 'IT failures' blog here on ZD Net seems impressed by the...

Tags: Customer Service, ROI, Enterprise 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Natalie Petouhoff, Mike, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Silverlight 3 to launch July 10

Silverlight 3 to launch July 10That's fantastic newsMicrosoft are really moving quickly with Silverlight - and version 3 ramps up it's relevance for Line of Business applications - this is where it will really outshine the competition in my opinion.Mobile is the missing link though - I am still hopeful...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Web browsers, Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight 3, Microsoft Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

Black Duck calls Microsoft open source mainstream

Black Duck calls Microsoft open source mainstreamI don't know about you.......but Codeplex seems to have a long way to go to be as big or important as Sourceforge. 9,000 projects vs 230,000. I think I read that Google Code had around 50,000 a while back and they started off after...

Tags: Java development tools, Stillborn, Silverlight.net, CodePlex, Microsoft Corp., SourceForge, open source

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

What Obama can do for and to open source

What Obama can do for and to open sourceSorry we let you down.It doesn't surprise me though. We are very focused on our agendas. The Obama Administration presents a large field of issues. The only thing I can say so far is that his choice to fill...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Obama, open source

Discussion threads 2009-05-16