Janus DRM technology from Microsoft seeks to provide “assurance to record companies that their copyrighted content will not be pirated”.

Ya, and I’ll be back later, when I’m done with my experiment of making water not wet.

Yahoo and British Telecom partner to create a voice over instant messenger service.

Netflix shares plunged 25% today. I love and recommend the service, so bad news is unwelcome here.

I forgot to post this lastnight, but around 9pm my roommate and I were convinced we heard sporadic gunfire near our house. About 5 shots. Scary considering Irvine is the Canada of Orange County.

Microsoft just won a $4 million dollar judgement against a California based spammer.

Yahoo, AOL, and MSN plan to link their IM services. The catch, it’s only for businesses, and you have to license software from Microsoft that will provide the functionality. Wow, sounds like a great idea. Can you imagine if every business had to pay licensing to Microsoft in order for their email to work?

The jabber guys need to get their act together and set at least two things in order. First, they need to fix their docs, they suck and are incomplete. While they’re at it, they should stop breaking links: their mailing lists are indexed all over google but they didn’t maintain permalinks. Secondly, they need to make sure there are enough robust public servers that can support a large user base.

Closed IM systems that talk to each other are a step up, but still, let’s let this model die. Non-standardized closed systems are not the way to go. Forget the webcams, leave the ads and mini hotornot/today’s news pages behind. Forget the stock tickers (of course, jabber can support headlines). Let’s just see that everybody can talk one to one, and one to multi with everybody else.