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		<title>Bitmunk 3.1 Released - 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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		<title>The Looming Cloud Computing Bubble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The number of stories in the online media about Cloud Computing has increased sharply over the last six months. There is a great deal of excitement around this new buzz word, but what is it all about?
The following graph is from Google Trends and shows the average news volume between the term &#8220;Cloud Computing&#8221; (in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/03/28/cloud-computing-bubble/</link>
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		<title>Absorbing Costs Considered Harmful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bitmunk was founded on a number of principles that we have, unfortunately, not codified on the website yet. One of those principles is the concept that we will always strive to give a detailed break-down of the costs associated with the purchase of any digital good on our network. While some of our customers may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/02/27/absorbing-costs-harmful/</link>
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		<title>Bitmunk 3.1 Website Launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bitmunk 3.1 website quietly launched on Wednesday 8pm EST. This release comes six months after the Bitmunk 3.0 release and went a great deal more smoothly than the 3.0 release. The only major hang-up was an issue with IPv6 and DNS AAAA records, both of which we have disabled for the time being. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/01/16/bitmunk-3-1-website-launch/</link>
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		<title>Fibers are the Future: Scaling Web Services Past 100K Concurrent Requests (Part 2/2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a blog post last month, we outlined why a traditional Apache+PHP setup will inevitably fail the growing needs of medium to large AJAX-based websites. The article is continued this month by analyzing different methods of scaling web services past the concurrency barrier inherent in a basic Apache+PHP setup.
While speaking with the technical minds of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/10/21/scaling-webservices-part-2/</link>
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		<title>W3C: RDFa 1.0 is Official</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RDFa became an official World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation today. This means that it has undergone an intense amount of design, feedback, development and scrutiny to become a recognized world-wide standard for the expression of web semantics. Manu Sporny, Digital Bazaar&#8217;s Founder, has been directly involved with the RDFa Task Force and the standardization work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/10/15/rdfa-is-official/</link>
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		<title>POSIX Threads Don&#8217;t Scale Past 100K Concurrent Web Service Requests (Part 1/2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard times are upon our financial sector. The US financial markets are in turmoil. Many companies will be cutting spending as a squeeze is placed on operating budgets over the next couple of months, if not years. This is usually good news to the technology sector as most cost cutting measures depend on technology to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/09/30/scaling-webservices-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on HTML5, RDFa and Microformats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article was authored by one of our founders, Manu Sporny. He is an Invited Expert for the RDF in XHTML Task Force at the World Wide Web Consortium and a very active participant in the Microformats community.
We are first and foremost a media services company serving the music, movie, television and electronic book industries. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/08/23/html5-rdfa-and-microformats/</link>
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