This blog focuses on the evolving consumer Internet, and specifically, how the "old" web (of web pages and web sites) morphs into a new and improved Internet.

P2P telephony from the kazaa guys. I hear that they proxy the phonecalls for the double nat problem. Interesting.

GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you.

RDFMapper is a web service that searches an RDF file for resources with geographic locations, and returns a map overlayed with dots representing located resources. Clicking on a dot displays a web page representing the clicked resource. Arbitrary images can be treated as maps, so the service can be used for any kind of image annotation.

Clay Shirky lambasts micropayments for content in his most recent article, but that doesn't mean that micropayments across the board are doomed to fail.

Neet.

The labels want us to believe that we have to give up freedom to get music. EMusic shows that that's simply not true.

DRM in Microsoft WM9 SDK cracked using nothing but the vanilla WM9 API.

Notes from friday morning's keynotes and a few other parting thoughts about the Open Source Conference.

Stormy Peters' keynote speech at OSCON 2003 covered some interesting points about how HP works to maintain a sane open source policy and works with the open source community.