Featured Blog Posts – October 2011 Archive (2)

Patents In China

I posted back in the summer about how China produces two-thirds of the world’s counterfeit goods. The New York Times has added some insight to the problem, namely …

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Added by Steve Craven on October 25, 2011 at 10:10am — 1 Comment

Are Shared Skype Chats the new IRC?

I think almost everyone has heard of Skype for audio and video calls. What some people are less aware of is that the text chat functionality can be used for persistent chatrooms like those available through IRC and other chat protocols. Whether you've heard of IRC or not, you've surely heard of IM. IRC is a text based protocol that supports very large chatrooms. Anyone with a server can host multiple rooms and there are many highly active IRC servers still around. There is huge traffic…

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Added by Sam Joseph on October 12, 2011 at 10:30pm — 5 Comments