http://digitalbazaar.com Collaborative Digital Content Distribution Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:29:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 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/ 5 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/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/2009/07/13/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/2009/04/04/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/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/2008/08/23/html5-rdfa-and-microformats/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/08/23/html5-rdfa-and-microformats/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:18:09 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/08/23/html5-rdfa-and-microformats/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/08/23/html5-rdfa-and-microformats/feed/ 2 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/2008/01/07/rdfa-basics/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/01/07/rdfa-basics/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:55:26 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/01/07/rdfa-basics/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/01/07/rdfa-basics/feed/ 1