http://digitalbazaar.com Collaborative Digital Content Distribution Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:25:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/09/12/payswarm-api/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/09/12/payswarm-api/#comments Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:31:24 +0000 Manu Sporny http://digitalbazaar.com/?p=643 development website today. We are also releasing a demonstration of the PaySwarm web platform as it applies to bloggers, journalists, newspapers and magazines...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/09/12/payswarm-api/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/08/07/webid/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/08/07/webid/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:13:13 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=513 WebID. The bad news is that there remained one problem that would take the browser vendors years to solve. That is, until Dave Longley (our CTO), discovered a way to make WebID work in all the current browsers in use today, including Internet Explorer... ]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/08/07/webid/feed/ 6 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/07/20/javascript-tls-2/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/07/20/javascript-tls-2/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:12:47 +0000 Dave Longley http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=333 previous article that we did on a JavaScript implementation of TLS, we explained why we created Forge, which we released as open source software. To summarize, before Forge, there was no easy way to access a home computer using just JavaScript and Flash - technologies that exist in 98.9% of all browsers. With Forge, application providers such as Google Docs can now provide access to your home computer in a way that is safe and secure...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/07/20/javascript-tls-2/feed/ 3 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/07/20/javascript-tls-1/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/07/20/javascript-tls-1/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:55:29 +0000 Dave Longley http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=321 JavaScript TLS client implementation and released it as open source software. The project is called Forge. To our knowledge a JavaScript implementation of TLS has never been done before. But, if you are a developer, you might be thinking: Wow, that sounds completely inane. Is this just another case of a bored developer engaged in an esoteric demonstration that something crazy is possible? It is useful. We promise. If you are not a developer, you might be wondering what TLS is and what JavaScript has to do with it at all. Well, first, TLS stands for Transport Layer Security and is just the fancy name behind what makes "https" websites secure. You may have heard of SSL (Secure Socket Layer) before. TLS is the latest version of SSL and is more appropriately named because data does not have to travel over a "socket"; it can be transported in many different ways. So why would someone think a JavaScript TLS implementation is useful?]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/07/20/javascript-tls-1/feed/ 3 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/06/12/myth-busting-php/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/06/12/myth-busting-php/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:18:47 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=288 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/06/12/myth-busting-php/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/06/09/speed-improvements/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/06/09/speed-improvements/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:03:40 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=277

Networking Speed - We have improved Monarch's already impressive HTTP networking stack by greatly improving the number of simultaneous requests we can process per second. This not only improves the Bitmunk website, but all of the PaySwarm peer-to-peer software. Performance results will be published soon.

Website Responsiveness - A number of changes have been made to reduce page load times. We have focused on Javascript minimization, resource caching and compression.

Read on to find out the details...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/06/09/speed-improvements/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/05/06/bitmunk-3-2-2/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/05/06/bitmunk-3-2-2/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 20:55:39 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=260 Bitmunk Website and the PaySwarm software. It has been three months since our last release. This launch has a number of new features that are pretty exciting:

• Green Computing - We have replaced the standard Apache+PHP+Smarty web server stack with the Monarch Web server stack. This has improved performance by 468% and reduced the number of servers we need by a factor of 4. Reducing our carbon footprint by 4x is not only green, but greatly reduces long-term operating and maintenance costs as well.
• Semantic Web - We have published a new set of over 74 million pieces of machine-readable data in our pages, 11 million of which consist of pricing data via the Good Relations Vocabulary. We are using RDFa to publish the data.
• The Experience - Finding and buying what you want is now faster, with less annoying screens in the way between you and your music. The PaySwarm software now supports Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit versions).

Read on to find out more...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/05/06/bitmunk-3-2-2/feed/ 5 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/02/01/bitmunk-payswarming/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/02/01/bitmunk-payswarming/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:51:52 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=253 open source project. This month, we're releasing a reference implementation of the PaySwarm web platform. That's right, we're releasing the Bitmunk Personal Edition source code! The software that we are releasing today enables the people that create digital content to distribute it through the Web and receive payment directly from their fans and customers. It is also designed to help fans and customers distribute digital content on behalf of the content creators in a way that is both legal and financially beneficial to the creators, fans and customers. The technology is designed to be integrated directly into web browsers and web devices, finally making legal digital content distribution a first-class citizen on the web...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/02/01/bitmunk-payswarming/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/01/31/bitmunk-3-2-1/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/01/31/bitmunk-3-2-1/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:09:49 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=241

We now support Firefox 3.6.

Only one tab is created for the Bitmunk Personal Edition software. That tab is focused whenever you purchase anything via Bitmunk

Firefox will now auto-discover the page that you use to control your Bitmunk software.

The interface has been made a bit more responsive.

Read more...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/01/31/bitmunk-3-2-1/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/11/30/bitmunk-3-2-launched/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/11/30/bitmunk-3-2-launched/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:00:22 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=224 collaborative content distribution. Bitmunk is a plug-in for the Firefox web browser. This release adds the ability to sell DRM-free music from your computer, on behalf of artists, via an open, standards-based, peer-to-peer network. We will be working toward standardizing this technology for web browsers over the next several years. This work will establish a world-wide, open mechanism for the distribution of digital content via web browsers that not only benefit artists, but fans as well. In short - when a file is traded using Bitmunk 3.2, the artist is paid and the fan is paid. You can legally resell the music you buy via the network and get paid for the bandwidth you contribute to the sale. This is a bold new approach to music distribution. We certainly think it is inevitable that digital content will eventually be distributed in this way. Here's how it works...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/11/30/bitmunk-3-2-launched/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/09/28/a-digital-content-commerce-standard/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/09/28/a-digital-content-commerce-standard/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:02:48 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=220 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/09/28/a-digital-content-commerce-standard/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/08/30/equitable-culture/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/08/30/equitable-culture/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:41:46 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=171 The Pirate Bay (TPB). Or rather, it was the Pirate Bay until their owners were raided, sued, tried and sentenced earlier this month. The Pirate Bay is the latest link in a long chain of peer-to-peer companies that have met their end at the hands of international copyright law. It is also the target of a post-litigation buy-out attempt by a company who wants to monetize the over 25 million community members of TPB...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/08/30/equitable-culture/feed/ 1 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/06/29/browser-based-p2p-commerce/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/06/29/browser-based-p2p-commerce/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:02:10 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=108 went live earlier today is the culmination of over 26 months of development, hundreds of thousands of lines of code writes and re-writes and the dream of a small group of us that are trying to fundamentally change the way people buy and sell digital goods on the Internet. On the surface, Bitmunk looks much like a web-based digital content store specializing in MP3 music sales. People can come to the site and purchase songs and albums for very competitive prices (cheaper than iTunes and Amazon.com). There is, however, a deeper history and a grander goal for Bitmunk...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/06/29/browser-based-p2p-commerce/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/05/31/admitting-that-javascript-was-a-mistake/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/05/31/admitting-that-javascript-was-a-mistake/#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 14:57:14 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=86 visually expressing the usefulness of programming languages. The article uses star-line plots to show how different programming languages compare with one another in speed and expressiveness, as each is used to solve a number of common problems. It's always nice to check your gut reaction to different programming languages against empirical evidence. Language choice can be as varied as our food preferences, often not based solely on fact. Like our palate, we may find that our preference for our favorite programming languages change over time. As we learn more and use our language of choice to solve real problems, the initial love affair may turn into a nightmare. At Digital Bazaar, our initial fondness for Javascript is turning into a deep distaste for the way Javascript has evolved in the browsers...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/05/31/admitting-that-javascript-was-a-mistake/feed/ 9 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:23:30 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=54 shopping a new music licensing model around to universities in the United States. Like some before it, this one attempts to address the still rampant music piracy occurring via peer-to-peer networks by enforcing a pseudo-mandatory collective licensing agreement on every student attending a participating university. There were a number of very interesting parts to the proposal that we would like to work on improving with Choruss and any partner universities. There were also a few propositions that we think are harmful to the industry, artists and fans as a whole. It should be no surprise that we think that any sort of mandatory collective licensing is a very bad idea, as is the "covenant not to sue" approach that Choruss is currently pursuing. Voluntary collective licensing, as proposed by organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is not a good alternative either...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/feed/ 1 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/02/27/absorbing-costs-harmful/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/02/27/absorbing-costs-harmful/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:45 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/02/27/absorbing-costs-harmful/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/02/27/absorbing-costs-harmful/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/01/16/bitmunk-3-1-website-launch/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/01/16/bitmunk-3-1-website-launch/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:27:21 +0000 Dave Longley http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/01/16/bitmunk-3-1-website-launch/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/01/16/bitmunk-3-1-website-launch/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:56:48 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/03/14/next-generation-bitmunk/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/03/14/next-generation-bitmunk/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:30:34 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/03/14/next-generation-bitmunk/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/03/14/next-generation-bitmunk/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/10/29/one-million-songs-on-bitmunk/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/10/29/one-million-songs-on-bitmunk/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:18:18 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/10/29/one-million-songs-on-bitmunk/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/10/29/one-million-songs-on-bitmunk/feed/ 0