have teamed up to put their money where their mouths are following the one-click hoo-ha a few months ago by opening BountyQuest, dedicated to finding prior art relevant to controversial patents. They put up a bounty to be awarded to the first person who finds an example of prior art (and I assume who documents and supports their claim).
Archives for 2000
Cutting through the madness
Cory Doctorow writes about [His] Date with the Gnomes of San Jose at the first P2P Working Group meeting, which looks like it might be a stillborn effort by Intel to coopt (or just to support?) the peer-to-peer community.
Really great quote from the article: “[peer to peer nets are] faery infrastructure, networks whose maps form weird n-dimensional topologies of surpassing beauty and chaos; mad technological hairballs run by ad-hocracies whose members each act in their own best interests.
In a nutshell, peer-to-peer technology is goddamn wicked. It’s esoteric. It’s unstoppable. It’s way, way cool.”
Of course, from
The Onion: Discovery Of Oil Turns Peru Into Bunch Of Assholes. Best part – the picture caption: “A Peruvian farmer in the mountain village of Arequipa calls his broker.”
From Jesse James Garrett
: A visual vocabulary. Diagramming for the web world. I wish I had something that good years ago. I’ve made due – but with my own inconsistent, incomplete version that relies a lot upon my relationship with the developers I work with. Complements his earlier Elements of User Experience [pdf] document.
Holy shit
I appreciate the dot-com company I work for when I read stuff like this article about a failure in Canadian Business magazine. It’s bad though, this whole thing with the stories of doom and stupidity. Many old friends who I don’t see much look at me quizzically when I tell them what I do these days. Of course it doesn’t help that I can barely describe my job.
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