Posted on December 22, 2004 9:55 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
A week or so ago, I spent several hours painstakingly removing hundreds of comment spams from this blog. Every one of them featured links to poker sites on the Web. Consequently, I had to modify my blog settings to require member registration to post comments—which has resulted in a drop in comments. I’m in the process of configuring a new blog app from…
Posted on December 20, 2004 10:25 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
The US Supreme Court is poised to hear the case MGM v Grokster, in which 28 of the biggest entertainment companies in the world are suing the makers of Kazaa, Morpheus and Grokster, the most popular of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications. The suit could set a precedent for action against other technologies; it could also effectively shut down file-sharing.
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Posted on December 17, 2004 8:46 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Yahoo!‘s blog offers up some technical details on the portal’s new video search capability. Using Media RSS—the same type of enclosures available in RSS 2.0 that make podcasting possible—Yahoo! is able to produce search results that show a thumbnail of the video along with the duration and file size and the URL where it was found. “Rather than build a completely new way to do this, we…
Posted on December 15, 2004 4:38 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed lawsuits today against more than 100 BitTorrent tracker servers that direct users to locations of files available for download. The lobbying arm of the Hollywood movie machine wants to kill the technology that lets people with high-speed connections download large files in a fraction of the time it takes using conventional download techniques.
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Posted on December 14, 2004 8:05 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
“Blogs are so last year,” declares Forbes magazines in an overview of the emergence of wikis. “Web logs offered “bloggers” more customizable personal Web journals and the ability to invite controlled collaboration. Wikis are the next generation: Web spaces that are totally collaborative.”
The article offers a counterpoint to former Encyclopedia Britannica editor-in-chief Robert McHenry, who contested the accuracy and professionalism of Wikipedia entries. According to…
Posted on December 13, 2004 8:51 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
If you haven’t tried Google Suggest, it’s worth a look. This new service from the search king uses predictive technology to figure out what you’re looking for, offering suggestions as you type.
It’s an interesting approach, not unlike the way the X1 desktop search tool works. I decided to search on “public relations.” I typed the letter “p” and was immediately greeted with a list of suggestions, starting…
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