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Four short links: 20 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 20, 2009

Poles, Politeness, and Politics in the Age of Twitter (Stephen Fry) -- begins with a discussion of a UK storm but rapidly turns into a discussion of fame in the age of Twitter, modern political discourse, the "deadwood press", and The Commons in Twitter Assembled. There is an energy abroad in the kingdom, one that yearns for a new...

Four short links: 7 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 7, 2009

Followup to jwz's Palm App Store Fiasco -- redux: still nothing concrete from Palm, but they're saying they'll create a second-rate app store into which open source apps will go (along with apps that Palm hasn't reviewed). Schmidt on YouTube -- the interesting bit for me was Every minute, more than 10 hours of video is uploaded to the...

Microsoft and the two XML patents #4 - HyTime's dataloc

By Rick Jelliffe
August 15, 2009

To allow in 1994 that out-of-line markup was somehow original when there was already an ISO standard to allow it that was then two years old, shows how incompetent or inept the USPTO was at that time:

Four short links: 8 July 2009

By Nat Torkington
July 8, 2009

Stop Whining About Facebook's Redesign (Slate) -- How can I be so sure that you'll learn to like the redesign? Because you did the last two times Facebook did it. The conclusion is that sites don't say why they're redesigning, and that causes the resistance. C# and CLI under the Community Promise (Miguel de Icaza) -- Microsoft have announced...

Four short links: 26 May 2009

By Nat Torkington
May 26, 2009

Flare -- dynamically partitioning and reconstructing key-value server. Currently built on Tokyo Cabinet, but backend is theoretically pluggable. (via joshua on delicious) Implantable Device Offers Continuous Cancer Monitoring -- the sensor network begins to extend into our bodies. The cylindrical, 5-millimeter implant contains magnetic nanoparticles coated with antibodies specific to the target molecules. Target molecules enter the implant through...

Four short links: 26 Feb 2009

By Nat Torkington
February 26, 2009

Three stories about old-media in new-media age, and some patent goblins to leave a bad taste in your mouth: The Kindle Swindle -- the Authors Guild president argues that the robot voice of the Kindle does away with audiobook royalty streams, lucrative for some titles. Doesn't mention the vast majority of books for which there is no audiobook. Creators have...

Southern California Linux Expo: freedom in a service economy, and more

By Andy Oram
February 22, 2009

This evening's SCALE blog covers Bradley Kuhn's keynote on Software as a Service, Jono Bacon on security, Red Hat's counsel on patents, and much more (with ample indulgence for my own opinions).

Another ditzy patent application comes up for examination by Peer-to-Patent

By Andy Oram
February 18, 2009

Peer to Patent project is examining a patent application that tries to get a monopoly on a trivial tagging mechanism similar to what millions of people use on blogs, social networks, and media sharing sites.

Peer-to-Patent and Article One Drag the Reclusive Patent Onto the Thoroughfare

By Andy Oram
January 31, 2009

Peer-to-Patent, a research project affiliated with several patent offices, and Article One Partners, a commercial venture, are trying to bring public participation into the patent system. This article describes and compares these organizations, highlights a new "post-issue" site erected last week by Peer-to-Patent to seek prior art on patents that have already been issued, and tries to tease out the social and economic trend represented by the organizations.

Richard Jefferson Interviewed in Com Ciência

By Nat Torkington
December 24, 2008

I enjoyed this interview with Richard Jefferson (caution: PDF) from Com Ciência No. 102, October 05, 2008. Richard runs CAMBIA, a group that fights for open innovation in biological sciences. He's particularly cautionary about the potential for patents to greatly restrict the development of Synthetic Biology (SB): But don't doubt there will be some very interesting biological understanding that emerges...

Bilski patent decision: trying to return patents to their technological origins

By Andy Oram
November 10, 2008

The software industry is abuzz--almost as much as the legal field--with a October 28 court decision that everyone regards as a verdict on business patents, and that some think it will change software patenting as well. I've just published an exploration of the issue. What I offer here is an inductive exploration based on hypothetical examples.

Microsoft Research offers a sampling in Cambridge, Massachusetts

By Andy Oram
September 23, 2008

The opening of Microsoft Research's latest facility was celebrated today with a free one-day symposium here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I think the symposium succeeded in its goals of showing that the research facility is an independent entity that plays by the rules of open scientific debate and funds basic research of value to society.

Encouraging results from Peer-to-Patent

By Andy Oram
July 2, 2008

Peer-to-Patent is carrying off one of the most audacious experiments in Internet activism in our day. A report released by the non-profit project in PDF format reports the data from surveys and an analysis of patents handled during the first year of the project. The sample is small (23 patents) but bears some impressive fruit.

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