This article was authored by one of our founders, Manu Sporny. He is an Invited Expert for the RDF in XHTML Task Force at the World Wide Web Consortium and a very active participant in the Microformats community. We are first and foremost a media services company serving the music, movie, television and electronic book…
Thoughts on HTML5, RDFa and Microformats
Published August 23rd, 2008Bitmunk 3.0 Website Launches
Published July 3rd, 2008Today, is a big milestone – the release of the Bitmunk 3.0 website. This is a release that has been in the making for 18 months. While much of the functionality facing our customers has not changed, everything behind the scenes has received a huge update. You can still search, browse, and purchase music and…
Blacksburg BarCamp 1.0
Published May 15th, 2008The very first BarCamp in Blacksburg is going to be happening on June 14th, 2008. Make sure to tell all your technologist friends and direct them towards the following website: Blacksburg BarCamp 1.0 Here are the sessions so far for the day, but new ones could be added or these ones could be changed slightly…
Dynamic Spectrum Auctions and Digital Marketplaces
Published April 24th, 2008Chances are that your cell-phone’s data connection is slow compared to most wired connection speeds. This is especially true in the United States. An emerging field, called Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio, is starting to make headway in changing the way we use the airwaves. Two of the leading universities in the world on…
The Next Generation of Bitmunk Technology
Published March 14th, 2008In the next several months, we will be releasing technology that has been in development in our R&D labs for over a year and a half. This will be version 3.0 of our technology and it is a massive leap in speed, size reduction, and interoperability. What follows is a quick run-down on what we’re…
Learn RDFa in 8 minutes
Published January 7th, 2008This is a follow-up to the video we released two weeks ago about the Semantic Web. The World Wide Web Consortium is working on a standard way to mark up semantics in XHTML called RDFa. We are heavily involved in RDFa development and believe it to be the right technology to express semantics on the…
The Semantic Web in 6 minutes
Published December 26th, 2007We’ve been heavily involved with the World Wide Web Consortium over the past several months working with the RDFa task force, chartered by the Semantic Web Deployment group. While the semantic web is many things to many people, it is quite simple at it’s core. Explaining that simplicity in less than 30 minutes, though, is…
Bitmunk Launches World’s First Open Music Recommendation Service
Published September 9th, 2007Finding independent musicians is hard enough when you’re trawling through music blogs. With the advent of the Internet, the number of indies out there has exploded in the past several years. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just enter the name of an artist that you like and get a list of suggested albums…
Bitmunk, Microformats and the Semantic Web
Published April 24th, 2007If there is one thing we do well at Digital Bazaar, it is think BIG. One of our desires is to enact globally positive change in the music industry. This blog post is about one of our internal projects that is going to do just that. It is cryptically called the “Semantic Wusic” project –…
Starfish Distributed Filesystem Launched
Published March 19th, 2007As promised last month, we are releasing our clustered storage solution to the general public. Starfish is basically a turbo-charged version of the Google File System, with a focus on data reliability, scalability, very low total cost of ownership and ease of use. Software packages, tutorials and source code are available from the Official Starfish…
Starfish: Massive Storage for Everybody
Published February 26th, 2007We have always had a very big data storage problem. Our storage facility is eventually going to have to hold every minutely popular song, album, television show, movie, piece of software, video game, book and any other authorized piece of digital content that the world has to offer. That is hundreds of thousands of terabytes…
The First Open Source P2P Digital Content Transaction Platform in History
Published January 15th, 2007To build and launch the first copyright-respecting P2P Digital Content Transaction Platforms in the world is no small feat. We are here because of the extraordinary efforts of volunteers that donate their time to open source software. Linux, Apache, Python, PHP, MySQL, and Lustre are just a few of the open source technologies that we…
Bitmunk is going Open Source!
Published January 4th, 2007In another industry first, we are planning to go open source with several of our software projects. In doing this, we hope to foster a great deal of development in the area of peer-to-peer digital file transactions. Our software helps people run their websites by offering digital content sales as a part of their website…
Bitmunk 2.0 Launches!
Published November 28th, 2006We are very proud to announce the version 2.0 launch of our software and technology. Bitmunk 2.0 is a significant improvement over the version 1.0 software and technology. Most significant is the integration of the Bitmunk Buying Engine and Bitmunk Personal Sales Server technology. The Bitmunk Personal Edition 2.0 software is capable of doing many…
Create your very own online music store!
Published March 28th, 2005We’ve released version 1.0 of our P2P Sales Server software that allows anyone to sell music straight from their own computer. With this technology you’ll be able to put your music collection up for sale on the Internet. The more artists we get signed up with Bitmunk (it’s free to sign up!) the more music…