The Pirate Bay has rolled out a new feature which allows users to add tags to the torrents they upload. The tags will make it easier to structure and discover new content, and it gives users the opportunity to form tag based groups. Read more

Here is a story of a blogger doing his best to help the band Travis reach its fans (at the band’s request), and the IFPI subsequently steaming in thinking it knows best and getting it wrong twice over. We look at what happened and speak to Travis themselves to get their opinion on file-sharing. Read more

PC World - Open-source content management vendor Alfresco can now stand in for SharePoint server. Read more

When we reported about the leak of a BuckCherry track last week, and specifically the band’s response to it, we hinted that this could be a covert form of self-promotion. Indeed, after a few days of research we found out that the track wasn’t leaked by pirates, but by Josh Klemme, the manager of the band. Read more

TechWeb - I’m still sorting through the last bits of my OSCON trip notes, but one striking conversation I had was with Byrne Reese of SixApart about people who violate the end-user licensing of for-pay editions of OSS apps. Do we sic the open source cops on them? I’d like to think not. Read more

EXTENsive Thought is a program that will stimulate lateral thinking as you assess your current situation with regard to particular areas of your life and then consider possible options to bring about major improvements. Goals are set to achieve a multiple of TEN times the current situation. (in Home and Hobby) Read more

SOA is a hot topic, but the task of creating and managing a truly service-oriented architecture can be elusive. Explore how a modeling approach to the creation and management of an enterprise-wide architecture will effectively implement the company’s business plans through a comprehensive set of interconnected services. Read more

Chess Position Trainer is a state-of-the-art chess software with a focus on chess opening, training and repertoire management. Chess Position Trainer is what you use when you want to learn and train your chess opening repertoire, not fight it. This chess opening software will change the way you create, manage and study your chess opening repertoire. (in Games) Read more

NetLogo is a cross-platform, multi-agent, programmable modeling environment for simulating natural and social phenomena. NetLogo is particularly well suited for modeling complex systems developing over time. Modelers can give instructions to hundreds or thousands of “agents” all operating independently. (in Education) Read more

YouRipper is a small, easy to use utility which enables the end-user to download videos from the YouTube website. (in Internet) Read more

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