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 player manufacturers such as Archos, Creative Labs, and iRiver. However, this idealized modular approach did [...]
Entries from March 2007
March 16, 2007
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 in other products, and we got quite interesting feedback on our implementation of online knowledge [...]
March 8, 2007
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 that compete directly with TypePad (which runs on Movable Type). The second issue is the [...]
