http://digitalbazaar.com Collaborative Digital Content Distribution Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:20:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/05/05/payswarm-sandbox/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/05/05/payswarm-sandbox/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 15:52:23 +0000 Manu Sporny http://digitalbazaar.com/?p=801 http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/05/05/payswarm-sandbox/feed/ 1 http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/02/28/payment-standards/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/02/28/payment-standards/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:36:05 +0000 Manu Sporny http://digitalbazaar.com/?p=757 standard for Universal Payments on the Web. Visa and Mastercard exist. PayPal is widely known and used. Google Checkout and Amazon Payments also cover retailers willing to hitch their store to yet another proprietary checkout mechanism. The brands are well known and recognized. Many competitors and good brand recognition are good for the marketplace, right? Not Always.]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/02/28/payment-standards/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/01/31/web-commerce/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/01/31/web-commerce/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:36:05 +0000 Manu Sporny http://digitalbazaar.com/?p=737 PaySwarm Reference Platform uses the Semantic Web. That means that it understands the information it reads in a web page and uses that knowledge to accomplish its tasks, for example, performing financial transactions. Machines understand what is in a web page by reading meta-data embedded in the page. The meta-data is expressed using a machine-readable vocabulary to describe human concepts. Vocabularies are basically dictionaries for computers - telling them more about each concept described by a particular term. In our push toward the first public release of the PaySwarm Reference Platform, we have released two of these vocabularies. One of them is for describing Commercial exchanges and one is for describing Digital Signatures. This blog post discusses what each one of them does and how they fit into the greater PaySwarm ecosystem.]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/01/31/web-commerce/feed/ 1 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/2010/06/09/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/2009/12/14/monarch/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/12/14/monarch/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:35:05 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=233 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/12/14/monarch/feed/ 1 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/2009/07/13/html5rdfa/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/07/13/html5rdfa/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:19:28 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=135

• The HTML5+RDFa Section (small 34K HTML document)
• The Complete HTML5+RDFa Specification (very large 4MB HTML document)

The blog post explains how this draft came to be, how it was published via the World Wide Web Consortium, and what it means for the future of RDFa and HTML5... ]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/07/13/html5rdfa/feed/ 3 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/2009/03/28/cloud-computing-bubble/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/03/28/cloud-computing-bubble/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:46:38 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/03/28/cloud-computing-bubble/ Cloud Computing has increased sharply over the last six months. There is a great deal of excitement around this new buzz word, but what is it all about? Read on to find out why Cloud Computing is mostly hot air...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/03/28/cloud-computing-bubble/feed/ 0 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/2008/10/21/scaling-webservices-part-2/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/10/21/scaling-webservices-part-2/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:34:24 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/10/21/scaling-webservices-part-2/ blog post last month, we outlined why a traditional Apache+PHP setup will inevitably fail the growing needs of medium to large AJAX-based websites. The article is continued this month by analyzing different methods of scaling web services past the concurrency barrier inherent in a basic Apache+PHP setup. While speaking with the technical minds of several companies in our industry, there were several very good questions raised about assumptions we had made when building our system. The feedback from the first blog post about this topic revolved around the following two questions...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/10/21/scaling-webservices-part-2/feed/ 1 http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/10/15/rdfa-is-official/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/10/15/rdfa-is-official/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:55:05 +0000 Mike Johnson http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/10/15/rdfa-is-official/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/10/15/rdfa-is-official/feed/ 1 http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/09/30/scaling-webservices-part-1/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/09/30/scaling-webservices-part-1/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:51:56 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/09/30/scaling-webservices-part-1/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/09/30/scaling-webservices-part-1/feed/ 0