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		<title>PaySwarming Goes Open Source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In December 2009 we released Monarch, an ultra-fast web application server framework, as an open source project. This month, we&#8217;re releasing a reference implementation of the PaySwarm web platform. That&#8217;s right, we&#8217;re releasing the Bitmunk Personal Edition source code!
The software that we are releasing today enables the people that create digital content to distribute it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2010/02/01/bitmunk-payswarming/</link>
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		<title>Bitmunk 3.2.1 Released &#8211; Video and Data Sales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bitmunk 3.2.1 was released this weekend, which included several bug fixes and the basis of two new really cool features.
While we were polishing the Bitmunk 3.2 release, we spent the time to make Firefox integration a bit cleaner:

We now support Firefox 3.6.
Only one tab is created for the Bitmunk Personal Edition software. That tab is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2010/01/31/bitmunk-3-2-1/</link>
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		<title>Monarch &#8211; Next Generation REST Web Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Network-centric computing has been gaining significant mind-share over the past decade. We have started to shift our thinking of our computing environment from applications and documents that strictly reside on our personal computers to applications and documents that may reside on a variety of websites on the Internet. From Gmail, to Dropbox, to Facebook, to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/12/14/monarch/</link>
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		<title>Bitmunk 3.2 Launched &#8211; The Legal P2P Music Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, we launched Bitmunk Personal Edition 3.2 &#8211; the first piece of software in the world to enable collaborative content distribution. Bitmunk is a plug-in for the Firefox web browser. This release adds the ability to sell DRM-free music from your computer, on behalf of artists, via an open, standards-based, peer-to-peer network.
We will be working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/11/30/bitmunk-3-2-launched/</link>
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		<title>Establishing an Open Digital Media Commerce Standard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article outlines how Digital Bazaar, since 2007, has been using Semantic Web Technology to establish a set of open mark-up and communication standards for Web-based, peer-to-peer marketplaces. The system that Digital Bazaar has created, called Bitmunk, is used to transact digital media such as music, movies, television and books between independent agents on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/09/28/a-digital-content-commerce-standard/</link>
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		<title>The Pirate Bay and Building an Equitable Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest site to gain the full attention and ire of the RIAA, MPAA, and copyright holders worldwide is The Pirate Bay (TPB). Or rather, it was the Pirate Bay until their owners were raided, sued, tried and sentenced earlier this month. The Pirate Bay is the latest link in a long chain of peer-to-peer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/08/30/equitable-culture/</link>
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		<title>First Editors Draft of HTML5+RDFa Published</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog post was written by our Founder, Manu Sporny
HTML5+RDFa
The first public Editors Draft of RDFa for HTML5 was published earlier today. You can view the draft in two forms:


The HTML5+RDFa Section (small 34K HTML document)
The Complete HTML5+RDFa Specification (very large 4MB HTML document)


The blog post explains how this draft came to be, how it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/07/13/html5rdfa/</link>
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		<title>Bitmunk 3.1 Released &#8211; Browser-based P2P Commerce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the Bitmunk peer-to-peer commerce platform. The software release that went live earlier today is the culmination of over 26 months of development, hundreds of thousands of lines of code writes and re-writes and the dream of a small group of us that are trying to fundamentally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/06/29/browser-based-p2p-commerce/</link>
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		<title>Admitting that Javascript was a Mistake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was an interesting article that was written by Guillaume Marceau recently about visually expressing the usefulness of programming languages. The article uses star-line plots to show how different programming languages compare with one another in speed and expressiveness, as each is used to solve a number of common problems. It&#8217;s always nice to check [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/05/31/admitting-that-javascript-was-a-mistake/</link>
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		<title>A Collaborative Distribution Model for Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The music industry, via Choruss, is shopping a new music licensing model around to universities in the United States. Like some before it, this one attempts to address the still rampant music piracy occurring via peer-to-peer networks by enforcing a pseudo-mandatory collective licensing agreement on every student attending a participating university. There were a number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/</link>
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