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/2011/04/30/webid-and-w3c-identity-workshop/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/04/30/webid-and-w3c-identity-workshop/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 00:13:53 +0000 Manu Sporny http://digitalbazaar.com/?p=788 Identity in the Browser workshop in Mountain View, California on May 24th and 25th 2011. Digital Bazaar was asked to submit a position paper for the workshop, and this blog post summarizes some of the information in that paper.]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/04/30/webid-and-w3c-identity-workshop/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/03/31/payswarm-vocab/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/03/31/payswarm-vocab/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:37:22 +0000 Manu Sporny http://digitalbazaar.com/?p=777 PaySwarm standard, development platform, and commercial release of the first PaySwarm Authority - we have released a key building block of the PaySwarm specification: The PaySwarm Vocabulary. The vocabulary outlines the concepts that are active on any PaySwarm-compliant network - people, financial accounts, assets, licenses, listings and contracts. The vocabulary is used by PaySwarm applications to communicate with one another using a common commerce language.]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/03/31/payswarm-vocab/feed/ 0 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/2010/11/22/json-vs-xml/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/11/22/json-vs-xml/#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:59:21 +0000 Manu Sporny http://digitalbazaar.com/?p=700 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/11/22/json-vs-xml/feed/ 6 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/10/30/json-ld/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/10/30/json-ld/#comments Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:30:48 +0000 Manu Sporny http://digitalbazaar.com/?p=684 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/10/30/json-ld/feed/ 3 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/2010/02/07/monarch-2/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/02/07/monarch-2/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:59:29 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=545 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/02/07/monarch-2/feed/ 0 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/2010/01/07/payswarm/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/01/07/payswarm/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:56:22 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=543 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/01/07/payswarm/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