Certain things we take for granted. Certain things we can’t, anymore. Our world; our world wide web, remains challenged by issues of fragmentation and censorship. Our challenge, the one facing each and every one of us, as people of the Internet, remains: how do we hardcode these certain things, these certain freedoms, into our shared…

[vimeo https://vimeo.com/54882144] Welcome to 2013. They said this was the future. We said we’re not quite ready yet. Procrastinate with us? There’s the art of the old media caption, meta-captured. There are the over 100 online sources for free and legal music curated by Largehearted Boy. There’s the next decade of big/open/networked, from the brains at O’Reilly Radar. There’s some good news…

What’s your favorite galactic holiday special? Santa Conquers the Martians or The Star Wars Holiday Special? If you’ve never seen the former, luckily it’s available for your viewing pleasure via the Internet Archive. Download Santa Conquers the Martians: https://bit.ly/santaconquers Sci-fi not your thing? There’s also classic Holiday films like Scrooge (download it here) to get you…

Today, I’m happy to bring you BeamItOver, the latest project from BitTorrent Torque Labs. It has the same functionality as some other Torque Labs projects, but it has been designed from the ground up to bring the inherently social activity of sharing files to where the people are. It’s a Facebook app that aims to make sharing your…