Sunday, March 4, 2007

U.S. Royalty Rates Hit Webcasting. U.S. Royalty Rates Hit Webcasting. It looks grim for webcasters -- the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board announces retroactive rates, endorsing a per-play proposal by RIAA-associated SoundExchange. In Listening Post. [Wired News: Top Stories] 9:47:12 PM

Open Source Conversations:The openLiberty Project - Jason Rouault The openLiberty Project, announced in January 2007, is a global open source initiative formed to provide open source developers with tools for integrating the privacy and security services of multivendor Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services into many new identity-based services. In this episode, Jason Rouault discusses openLiberty, and how it could accelerate rollout of Web services, such as presence, contact book, geolocation and calendaring. Rouault also talks about openLiberty's choice of the Apache open source license, how openLiberty could lead to stronger integration between Liberty and Eclipse. why the Liberty form of geolocation is preferable to mobile carriers' typical methods. He also touches on the Liberty People Service, why Liberty's standards work is superior to work at OASIS, and answers Scott's obligatory Microsoft question. 9:10:45 PM

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