August 2006 Archives

Tim O'Reily has posted to the o'reily blog an update on the company's trademark scope enforcement policy. The issue has always been to protect from confusion in the specific case of conference names. The web2.0 community can breathe a sigh of relief.

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In the blogs...

OSS group claims Microsoft patent victory

Combatting copyright infringement with video fingerprinting

Generating Buzz With Link Baiting and Viral Campaigns

Technophilia: Protect your web searches

QTFairUse6: is Hymn finally back to strip FairPlay on iTunes 6?

1.2 million Flickr Photos Geotagged in 24 Hours

Flickr has just added location features for users to geocode images. Sweet!

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ICANN recently confirmed a proposed contract which would enable tierd pricing for the .org, .biz, and .info top-level domains. Why do you care?

This means that the registries could charge $100,000/yr for sex.biz, $25,000/yr for movies.org, etc. if they wanted to...
George Kirikos — circleid.com

I'm noticing a trend here, with strong similarities to the Net-Neutrality mess. Over-privatization, maybe, but in an old-boys club sort of way.

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