Bitzi - Bitzi Bitzi is a website where volunteers can contribute reports of any kind of digital file, with identifying metadata, commentary, and other ratings. Bitzi calls itself "the free universal media catalog," and the data is available for reuse under a DMOZ-like open content license. Files are identified by applying a strong hash function to their contents, which gives a distinct "fingerprint" for each file. Bitzi calls the combination of standard hash functions used by its system "Bitprints." The Bitzi catalog is a project of a company based in San Francisco. Some peer-to-peer file sharing programs offer an option to look up local files or network search results at the Bitzi website for more (or more trustworthy) information. Website: http://bitzi.com.
Jaclyn Linetsky - called Hampstead. Between 2000 and 2002 Linetsky dubbed the English voice for the title character in the preschool animated series Caillou. She also provided the voices for Bitzi in the 2002 animated series Daft Planet, and Meg in Mega Babies. She was among the class of 2003 from St. George's High School; she was the valedictorian. In 2003, Jaclyn was cast in a tennis-circuit themed dramatic show called 15/Love, for air on YTV. Her character was mutually falling in love with co-star Vadim Schneider's character. In an automobile accident near Montréal, Quebec, Canada both Linetsky and Schneider were killed while driving to the filming of an episode of 15/Love. Their vehicle, a rental minivan, lost control and collided with oncoming traffic..
Gnutella - lead nowadays by the GDF (Gnutella Developer Forum). Many protocol extensions have been and are being developed, by the software vendors and free gnutella developers of the GDF. They include intelligent query routing, SHA checksums, parallel downloading in slices (swarming), etc. There are efforts to finalize these protocol extensions in the Gnutella 0.6 specification at the Gnutella Protocol Development Website. The Gnutella 0.4 standard although being still the latest protocol specification since all extensions only exist as proposals so far is outdated. In fact, it is hard to impossible connecting with the 0.4 handshake. In January 2003 Shareaza announced the Gnutella2 protocol which uses UDP rather then TCP/IP network protocol for searches, an extensible binary xml-like packet format and includes many of the above mentioned extensions. The draft specification was released.
Open content - licenses attempt to maximize the freedom of all potential recipients in the future, while others maximize the freedom of the initial recipient. See public domain, free content, free software movement, copyleft. Open content projects (in alphabetical order): Aozora Bunko (in Japanese) - free digital Japanese books Asian Open Source Centre [1] - contains an open content GFDL wiki on open source [1] BerliOS [1] Bitzi - free community-built catalog of digital files Common Content [1] - open catalog of Creative Commons licensed content Connexions Repository [1] - Rice University's course material Creative Commons Disinfopedia Eldritch Press [1] - books ExtinctionLevelEvent.com - Open Content Web Comic [1] FreeMedia [1] - stock photos from the University of North Texas Jake [1] - Research software and database where content is built in an open.
