Safari is going out stronger now and faster, too. The development version is called WebKit and some observers are giving some warnings to Firefox about the popularity of this browser after this development version is through.

Several techies and net wiz such Computerworld have tested this development version of Safari and they are amazed at the speed that it is showing. In using a web browser, of course, the faster the better since you don’t want to wait forever before the browser opens the site you’re after. But sometimes, forever is but a couple of seconds of “page loading” display on the screen.

What it lacks in features in comparison to Firefox are the numerous add-ons and plugins available for Firefox. People who want to add all sorts of things to their browsers might simply choose Firefox over Safari. We had better watch out for any developments in the current version of WebKit. If there’s anything worth hearing about, we will let you know.

The current version is bound to have a lot of bugs for now but if you want to give it a go and check out some bugs yourself, then go on and download it from Apple’s website.

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The next time you pick up that cease and desist letter to copy it and reproduce it for your use to stop other sites from copying your content, take care! You might be violating copyright, as crazy as that may sound.

In October 2007, a lawyer claimed that the cease and desist letters originating from his office were copyrighted. Nobody had the right to copy them without his permission. It seems the lawyer has taken his job of stopping copying of content a little too seriously.

An advocacy group, Public Citizen, however, argued that the lawyer’s claim is not in harmony with the First Amendment of the Constitution. It seems though that the judge who looked after this claim agreed with the lawyer. According to a recent press release, the fines for copying a cease and desist letter without permission may cost up to 1 million dollars. Incredible!

Whatever the lawyer is up to, the judge seemed to put him on the right side of the law. Websites now have two things to take care of-that they do not copy content from elsewhere in the web, and that they do not copy cease and desist letters from any lawyer, unless they want to spend one million dollars.

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There are now a lot of sites that allow you to track your feeds. And sometimes if you sign up with too many trackers, you might just have to track your trackers and that might be a little difficult to do.

Here comes another one of those feed trackers-Iminta which is currently on private beta. Through this service, you can tell your friends to subscribe to your feed and use the service of Iminta.

Although there seems to be a lot of similar sites in the blogging world, at least with Iminta, you can create groups of your friends and choose which kinds of posts these friends will see. With this, you won’t have to worry about your mother reading your daring posts. Iminta also allows you to filter the types of data that you want to see. The beauty of using Iminta is that it also allows you to manage multiple data. Iminta is also serious with its business because a former manager of CNET is now managing its operations.

The language of Web 2.0 is choice and participation. With Iminta, you have more choices of where to feed your site feeds.

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SonyBMG is slowly realizing that music in the future may have little to do with the schemes of DRM being pushed nowadays. The distribution of music online has been revolutionized by the Internet. However, a host of companies are still crying for more regulation over illegal sharing of music.

SonyBMG and Midem, in response to this problem have tried to provide music to users with a set price for enjoying everything. By paying a fixed price, the user can enjoy unlimited access to hundreds of music tracks. If a subscriber pays for a fixed amount for all of the music available, it means therefore that the value of all the albums in the platform is the same.

There are some problems in this method of distribution-problems that concern the artists and record labels as well as that of subscribers. Subscribers do not give equal weight to the music they want to listen to. They would actually be willing to spend money on their favourite artists. The fame of the artists and the efforts spent in producing songs vary from album to album. In the long run, a fixed price for everything is a way to cheapen music costly produced.

Apparently, digital distribution of music has to look for further alternatives.

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Good news to people sharing music. QTrax has just been launched this week. For the uninitiated, QTrax is a peer-to-peer music sharing program. This platform is perfectly free, and perfectly legal. It is supported by ads. QTrax boasts of 25 million songs in its repertoire. That is a huge collection! Even five times more than that of iTunes!

Any song that you want will be downloaded into the QTrax program. While you are happily listening to the music, advertisements from QTrax sponsors will be displayed. As much as two-thirds of these ads will not go to QTrax, however, rather this fraction will go to the record labels in exchange of the license they provide to QTrax.

Since these songs come directly from the record labels, Digital Rights Management is implemented by the program. This means that the music cannot be downloaded to the drive of your digital music player like iPod. That is perhaps the greatest drawback of the system and may discourage music lovers from enjoying QTrax.

This is perhaps another effort to marry Old Media with the New. The trouble is, some of the sensibilities of using new media appear incompatible with that of the Old. It remains to be seen how QTrax will be accepted by music lovers worldwide.

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