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No Stairway (Infringement) and the Importance of Shared Design Tools in Innovation

Xconomy

The use of intellectual property (IP) to claim these tools can be problematic. For those who follow IP law, this is the tension behind the “abstraction test” in copyright and the recent Supreme Court software patent decision in Alice Corp. That’s the subject of my book project, Method+ology and the Means of Innovation.

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Interview with George Ruan and Donald Patterson, Quub

socalTECH

Right after that, I established connections with lots of artists--who were customer and friends--and started publishing books for them. After a few years, I graduated from college, and it sort of felt juvenile selling comic books, so I started a medical science company--buying OEM supplies in the U.S.,

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Topsy , for example, does respect the content producer — so morons using “Python-urllib/1.17″ or “AppEngine-Google; (+[link] appid: mapthislink)&# could obey the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), too. ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. googlebot.com&#.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

While handling bots, you should detect search engine crawlers, too: /* lookup your crawler IP database to populate $isCrawler; then, if the IP wasnt identified as search engine crawler: */ if ($isCrawler !== from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer.

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