The 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS) aimed to provide a forum for researchers active in peer-to-peer computing to discuss the state-of-the-art and to identify key research challenges in peer-to-peer computing.

In case you missed the link on Slashdot, here is the Wall Street Journal on Rotor, Microsoft's "shared source" release.

AOL looks to use Netscape in future releases, causing a shiver to go down both Microsoft's and most web developers spines.

In a Letter to P2PWG Members, the Peer-to-Peer Working Group considers joining the Global Grid Forum

Cool, simple explaination of codec features in DivX :-) and by extension, other MPEG-4 family codecs.

Macromedia ships Flash MX today, with the Flash Player 6 available now.

XML Standard for sheet music description and interchange. Too cool.

On the question of whether artificial life is possible, the New York Times takes the position that macro-structure, not micro-structure, is what matters.

Empty cans of Pringles crisps could be helping malicious hackers spot wireless networks that are open to attack.

KaZaA's legal representation in DC has sent a strongly worded letter to Joseph Biden, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who released a report titled "Theft of American Intellectual Property: Fighting Crime Abroad and at Home" on February 12. Biden's report was not tame by any means -- by my count there are 48 mentions of theft and 99 mentions of piracy in the 52 page document -- and neither is the letter sent by KaZaA's representative.