Messenger outage into seventh day

The problem with AOL going after GAIM is that alienating third-party developers is exactly the wrong thing for AOL to do.

General Gates has caught General Joy fast asleep.

Microsoft and Sun have both arrived at next-generation strategies that give ground to gain ground.

Civic duty, not anonymity, is the core of Freenet.

The ridiculously minimalist BadBlue web server flies under the radar.

Whatever investors think of open source, peer to peer developers have embraced it. The early success of Jxta shows why.

In the context of a web of trust, it takes linguistic gyration to make the word "trust" useful. The reason it does get used is historical -- these ideas came out of the security community. But in a modern context the word "trust" is either is so vague that it's useless or is outright misleading.

If you get a call from a friend of a friend who needs to sleep on your couch for the night, should you do it? It depends on who the friend is and what the friend says about the person.

According to washtech.com, Roku is shutting down.