I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Now that a small Texas company has a patent on scanning and archiving checks — something every bank does — that has survived a USPTO challenge, lawmakers feel they’ve to do something about it. Rather than reform patent law, they seem to think it wiser to protect the banks from having to pay billions in royalties by using eminent domain to buy the patent for an estimated $1 billion in taxpayer money, immunizing the banks. The bill is sponsored by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).”

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TechDirt has an interesting article about a UK-based company that is trying to work with ISPs to make use of user surfing data to serve targeted ads. “Late last year, we heard about a company that was trying to work with ISPs to make use of that data themselves to insert their own ads based on your surfing history — and now we’ve got the first report of some big ISPs moving into this realm. Over in the UK three huge ISPs, BT, Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media have announced plans to use your clickstream data to insert relevant ads as you surf through a new startup called Phorm.”

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DailyMotion has joined the ranks of online video sites offering high definition content. Any time a user uploads HD content, DailyMotion will automatically encode to stream as a 720p resolution video.

You’ll need a computer with a fast processor and a fast world wide web connection to watch HD videos on DailyMotion. That’s not particularly surprising, but we found that DailyMotion’s HD videos were much choppier than HD content from competing services like Vimeo and Stage6.

DailyMotion has also launched an updated version of its video player with support for HD and standard definition video, realtime seeking, and keyboard shortcuts.

[via DailyMotion Blog]

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Filed under: Internet, E-mail, Web services, web 2.0

You spend the day scouring the internet for funny, interesting, and gross articles to send to your friends, family, and colleagues. But is it really worth it? Do they even click the links you email them? LinkBlip provides an simple way to find out.

All you’ve to do is enter your email address and the URL you want people to click on. LinkBlip will spit out a TinyURL-style shortened link that you can share with anyone. When they click on the link, you’ll receive an email. You also get a link to a site that will let you know how many times people have clicked on your link. In theory, you can also see the geographic location of those who click on your links, but we found that the results weren’t particularly accurate.

[via Lifehacker]

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The Register is reporting that Mozilla’s handling of a recent security exploit that affected both browsers has drawn an unhappy response from the Opera team. “Claudio Santambrogio, an Opera desktop developer, said the Mozilla team notified it of a security issue only a day before publishing an advisory. This gave the Norwegian software developers insufficient time to make an evaluation. […] Santambrogio goes on to attack Mozilla’s handling of the issue, arguing that it places Opera users at unnecessary risk.”

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Filed under: Office, Productivity, Web services, web 2.0

Checkser is niche application of the wiki concept: users create/edit checklists for topics ranging from “What to look for when buying a home” to “Things to do before leaving for a vacation.” The checklists are useable (you can click checkboxes to mark items), and editable anonymously or with an OpenID signature.

While editing a checklist, you can drag/drop list items in whatever order you choose. You can also provide a “Read More…” link in case you want to offer a preview of a more extensive list found elsewhere.

Like any good wiki, you can view the history of edits for the checklists. Our favorite list so far is the Web 2.0 checklist.

[Thanks Marijn Deurloo]

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An anonymous reader writes “It looks like the courts might finally be gearing up to overturn the ruling that opened the floodgates for both software and business model patents. It’s been nearly ten years since the US courts decided that business methods were patentable and that most software could be patentable — and we’ve all seen what’s happened since then. With all the efforts to fix the patent system lately, it appears that the court that originally made that decision may be regretting it, and has concurred to hear a new case that could overturn that ruling and restore some sanity to the patent system.”

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kan0r writes “The transparency group WikiLeaks.org currently seems to be under heavy fire. The main WikiLeaks.org DNS entry is unavailable, reportedly due to a restraining order relating to a series of articles and documents released by WikiLeaks about off-shore trust structures in the Cayman Islands. The WikiLeaks whistle blower, allegedly former vice president of the Cayman Islands branch of swiss bank Julius Baer, says in the WikiLeaks documents that the bank supported tax evasion and money laundering by its clients from around the world. WikiLeaks alternate names remained available until Saturday, when there seems to have been a heavy DDoS attack and a fire at the ISP. The documents in question are still available on other WikiLeaks sites, such as wikileaks.be, and are also mirrored on Cryptome. Details of the court documents have also been made available.”

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msim brings word that Australian legislators are considering an anti-piracy measure that would require ISPs to terminate world wide web access for people who repeatedly download copyrighted material. The legislation would set up a three-strikes system similar to the one proposed in the UK recently. While British ISPs resisted suggestions that they act as world wide web police, the response might not be the same in Australia, where the government has already tried to censor the web. “Under the three-strikes policy, a warning would be first issued to offenders who illegally share files using peer-to-peer technology to access music, TV shows and movies free of charge. The second strike would lead to the offender’s internet access being suspended; the third would cancel the offender’s internet access.”

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