Monthly Archives: March 2007

The iPod, DRM, and integrated systems

The industry originally envisaged a situation where multiple digital music players will play DRM-protected music that could be purchased from multiple online music stores. This was the original design for the Microsoft PlaysForSure DRM, which is used by digital music … Continue reading

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Rooms, spaces, or folders for containment?

Over the past 6 months, students of the Technology Innovation Management master’s program at Carleton University have been using a wiki-based knowledge creation environment based on TikiWiki. The system features rooms, analogous to categories (in standard TikiWiki), spaces or folders … Continue reading

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Is it time for Six Apart to open source Movable Type?

Six Apart currently faces two main issues with Movable Type. The first is loss of market share. It faces competition on two fronts – from other blogging software that can be installed by customers, and online web-based services for blogging … Continue reading

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