Prodigem is getting it’s act together more and more. The legitimate open source DRM on top of Bittorrent (a sopposed to Mike Homers little tax write-off scam.) Now they’ve got APIs.

Everybody is going 501(c)3 - we are at ourmedia.org. Too.

The furor over the closed Google thingie has subsided - but did anybody ever find out what happened? Free Wifi network? Google Talk + Maps = MyGoogle?

Rafat listed an interestuing rumor of Napster repositioning itself as the ‘MySpace of music’ - and then points out that that is what MySpace is already. But if I’m Napster - I got no choice. DLAs - all the way baby! It can’t be too hard to do MySpace one better. If somebody knows somebody at Napster tell them that thats’ what my company does all day long.

Great to see progress at NetVibes. I’ve heard many people talk about them. Maybe they’ll be at Les Blogs?

Apple goes half-way to social networking with Groups. I guess they haven’t figured out how to reinvent it - yet.

Planzo is another on-line event - planning community. Somebody else to join OpenEvents.

Speaking of Events - Peter Caputa and Whizspark is now offering their software for free. Check out Whizspark - they’ve very local oriented, with lots of great features to help monetize events.

Now that Google is using it’s login system for Orkut - I wonder of the lawsuit with Affinity Engines has been resolved? For those who care “Orkut was a founder of little Affinity Engines and signed a document saying “I will never create another social network”. Then he gets a job at Google and………………

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