by Tom | Aug 29, 2000 | General
Now this sounds interesting (but therefore also frightening). Some guys at MIT have invented (are inventing?) a fingerprinting technology for music. The theory is that however you munge a track, so long as humans are going to listen to it, you can uniquely identify...
by Tom | Aug 22, 2000 | General
2600 article about the DeCSS farago. Interesting, depressing, and reminds me of the evening I spent in a 2600 van in NYC. Those were the days!
by Tom | Aug 21, 2000 | General
It’s official – the Earth is warming. Scientists saw clear water at the North Pole recently.
by Tom | Aug 6, 2000 | General
What would you choose? Final Meal Requests Sick but strangely fascinating.This might work as a summary of how the internet industry fits together. Internet Indicators | What are the Internet Economy Indicators?An article about Flutter.com uses the magic phrase...
by Tom | Jul 31, 2000 | General
Need some games?BrightPlanet have a white paper on their deep web.An important NY Times article about the DeCSS case. Is software protected speech under the First Amendment?
by Tom | Jul 25, 2000 | General
Lots of nice articles on eCommerce in the McKinsey Quarterly (but you’d expect this, no?).So “Napster” and “Gnutella” are already old hat! The hashing idea is a good one, but I’m keener on the idea of using Infrasearch within an...
