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The distribution of punk music has always made it an easy candidate for online dissemination since word of mouth has always fueled the scenes. Downloadpunk seems to have recognized this and skipped many of the social features other music sites are touting. Downloadpunk seems to operate on the premise that what punk fans want is an online record store, not an online community and download punk is a darn fine store.
All songs are in 192 bit encoding which should be fine for most punk bands. Users can choose between mp3 and WMA formats. When you sign up you have the option to chose a charity, and Downloadpunk donates 1% of sales to the charities listed on the site. Song prices range from $.79, to $.99. You can also download full albums which range in price from $7.99 to $9.99. Customers can preview a thirty second sample of each song before purchasing.
You can search Downloadpunk by Artist, Album Title, Record Label or Song Title or you can browse by filtering through the various Punk sub-genres. Unfortunately there's no tag-based searching and not much in the way of recommendations, but they again if you're part of the punk scene perhaps you don't need online recommendations.
And the best part? There's no craptastic DRM. Wouldn't be very punk if there was would it?
[1]: http://www.downloadpunk.com "downloadpunk.com"
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To use GoodSearch, just enter the charity you want to support in the provided field, and then enter your search. You can change the designated charity as often as you like and there's even browser based toolbars available for download.
The results will be the same as those returned on Yahoo (a Google option would be nice), so you don't have to feel like you're missing anything in the results and you'll be helping the charity of your choice earn money.
GoodSearch can also be used to donate money to schools. There are currently over 23,000 charities and schools listed on the site.
Thanks to [LifeHacker][2] for pointing me to the site.
[1]: http://www.goodsearch.com/ "GoodSearch.com"
[2]: http://lifehacker.com/software/charity/support-charities-while-you-search-the-web-219330.php "LifeHacker on GoodSearch"
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While neither of those shows is completely gone from YouTube the clips have become somewhat scarce and are uploaded less frequently than previously.
Comedy Central hasn't publicized the iFilm partnership, but Variety.com reports that "iFilm is receiving numerous three-minute clips from the two shows that add up to most, if not all, of an episode the day after it airs."
iFilm also boast a fair amount of other Viacom owned content such as clips from MTV's The Real World and Wondershowzen.
IFilm lacks the current popularity of YouTube, but the site does have an official partnership with Viacom, something YouTube thus far lacks, and may gain some ground thanks to Viacom-owned content, which makes me wonder why iFilm isn't shouting this one from the mountaintops.
[1]: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117954999.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/youtubes_copyri.html "Monkey Bites on Viacom and YouTube"
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The IMDB has a long way to go before it can claim to be web 2.0, but the new design is at least easier on the eyes and seems to load a little faster. The IMDB could have benefitted from some collapsing menus or tabs, but the new design elements are primarily visual and not functionality overhauls.
Regrettable some of the new design could even be considered a step backwards in terms of functionality. The new homepage is significantly longer and several of the small top-ten link boxes are gone.
The new design does move the IMDB toward a more standards based layout, which for the most part eschews tables in favor of more semantic markup. As a poster at the [digg article where I discovered the redesign][2] points out, there are some funny bits in the new code, such as the CSS selector #nb15iesux.
[1]: http://www.imdb.com/ "The Internet Movie Database"
[2]: http://digg.com/design/IMDB_Gets_a_Face_Lift
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The project will partner MySpace with [Sentinel Tech][3] to built Sentinel Safe, a new technology which will enable MySpace to identify and delete profiles of registered sex offenders.
Because of MySpace's popularity with young users, the sex offender problem has plagued the site for some time and has lead to growing concern about how to address the problem. Wired's own [Kevin Poulsen wrote a program months ago][2] that had reasonable success in tracking down offenders.
The new technology, called Sentinel Safe, will draw on state and federal databases to find registered sex offenders. Interestingly enough, MySpace claims that this is first time anyone has collated data from the 46 individual state tracking systems into one national database.
If that claim is true, then the new technology may have appeal beyond MySpace as well.
Unfortunately, the ease with which users create fake identities on MySpace means the new technology will be only partly effective, since it can only find sex offenders that sign up under their real name.
To combat that issue MySpace has asked Congress to introduce e-mail registration legislation. under the proposed legislation sex offenders would have to register email addresses or face parole violations.
Also note that the new technology applies only to registered sex offenders in the United States, though MySpace says it is looking into similar programs for Europe and Asia.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-05T172807Z_01_N05296258_RTRUKOC_0_US-NEWSCORP-MYSPACE.xml&src=rss
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,71948-0.html "Kevin Poulsen on MySpace sex offenders"
[3]: http://sentryweb.com/ "Sentinal Tech"
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The idea behind ODF is to provide a way for any office program on any platform to share documents with any other office program. OpenOffice.org already saves files in ODF format and Google's web-based office apps support it as well.
Even Microsoft has grudgingly acknowledged the format and plans to release plugins for MS Office 2007 which will allow users to read and write ODF files.
In related news, Novell has announced that its version of OpenOffice.org [will support Microsoft's proprietary document format][2], the confusingly named Open XML (which is not "open" in sense of open source as its name might imply).
Novell also plans to release the code to the open source community so that all versions of OpenOffice.org *could* support the MS format if they wanted.
While it would be nice to see Microsoft adopt the ODF file format for MS Office, at least for the time being the Novel announcement means OpenOffice.org users will be able to trade documents with MS Office users.
Even if Microsoft never moves to using the ODF format by default, these two announcements are still a win for users as enhanced cross-platform capabilities will benefit nearly everyone.
The new version of Novell's OpenOffice.org does not have an official release date yet. Office 2007 [will be available to consumers January 30th][3].
[1]: http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=43485&scopelist=PROGRAMME "ISO ODF docs"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/windows_vista_i.html "Monkey Bites on Office 2007 release dates"
[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20061205/tc_pcworld/128079 "Novell to support Open XML format"
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* Microsoft has [announced a new suite of tools for designers][1], as well as a preview of the much touted "Flash killer," Microsoft Interactive Designer, which now goes by the name Expression Blend. Expression Blend, along with the other three programs, are intended to compete with offerings from rival Adobe. The new software will be available in the second quarter of 2007.
[1]: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061204/sfm044.html?.v=73 "Microsoft Expression Software"
* According to the [Proximity website][2], Apple has [acquired the video and audio software publisher][3]. Few details are available but I would expect to see the software rolled into Apple media editing products like Aperture.
[2]: http://www.proximitygroup.com/ "Proximity Group"
[3]: http://www.macworld.co.uk/procreative/news/index.cfm?newsid=16659&pagtype=allchandate "Macworld on Apple/Proximity deal"
* Speaking of Apple, rumors are swirling this morning about the possibility of an [ultra-thin ultra-light MacBook Pro][4]. Pure conjecture as of yet. And to add to the Mac rumor fest [Toshiba has announced a new 100 gig 1.8 hard drive][11], can new larger iPod by far behind?
[4]: http://www.macscoop.com/articles/2006/11/17/sources-confirm-plans-for-a-smaller-ultra-thin-form-factored-macbook-pro "Macscoop on Apple rumors"
[11]: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/12/05/toshiba_intros_100gb_hdd/ "New Toshiba Drive"
* Following the [BitTorrent company's announcement last week][5], bittorrent client [Azureus has announced version 3.0][6] and an accompanying site called [Zudeo][7]. One more small step in bittorrents struggle to legitimize itself.
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/bittorrent_cuts.html "Monkey Bites on BitTorrent announcement"
[6]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061204-8348.html "Azureus announcement"
[7]: http://www.zudeo.com/az-web/Index.html "Zudeo"
* The Halo 3 beta [officially opened for new registrations][8] yesterday. Be sure to check out the [system requirements][9] before you get to excited.
[8]: http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Halo-3-Beta-Registration-Begins-Today-1893.html "Halo registration opens"
[9]: http://www.halo3.com/ "Halo 3"
* And finally our thought and prayers are with James Kim. For those that haven't heard, the CNet editor's [wife and two daughters were found safe yesterday][10], but the search for Kim continues.
[10]: http://news.com.com/CNET+editors+wife%2C+daughters+found+search+continues/2100-1028_3-6140676.html?tag=cnetfd.mt "James Kim still missing"
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