October 19, 2007 – 8:54 am
You may remember that Viacom sued YouTube for a billion dollars over “Inducement of Copyright Infringement.” What YouTube does, specifically, is make it possible to download clips of, for example, the Daily Show, without watching Comedy Central’s ads. That’s certainly not the purpose of YouTube, but making it possible to download is a side affect […]
October 16, 2007 – 10:37 pm
At the last Refresh Denver meeting, I talked about microformats. Rather than doing a slideshow presentation, I just wrote down and passed out 25 statements about microformats that I hoped would be interesting enough to drive discussion. It worked out well enough, I think. In hindsight, it probably would have been better to focus less […]
October 16, 2007 – 10:01 pm
As I mentioned previously, many people have asked me about releasing the source code for various MySpace feed services. Back when I first created the blog service, it was actually released under an open source license. That was a mistake. The code was written to work on my specific server, and most people downloading it […]