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Attractive Open Source Search Interfaces? 65

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @04:22PM from the you'll-have-this-ansi-terminal-and-like-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I work for a company that manages an online database for the political market. We add to this DB daily with updates from a variety of sources and our customers then search through this content via our Solr/Lucene search engine. My problem is, our search interface is a little, well, basic and I would love to know if there are any feature-rich open source alternatives out there. The only one I can find is Flamenco, and while that seems strong on categorisation, that seems to be about the height of it."

Netflix Will Delay Renting New WB Releases 418

Posted by kdawson on Thursday January 07, 2010 @05:47PM from the times-they-are-a-changin' dept.

DesertBlade tips the news that Netflix will delay renting new releases from Warner Brothers for 28 days, and adds "Luckily I am so far behind in my movie watching that I will probably never catch up anyway." "It's part of a strategy by several studios to create staggered releases of DVDs so that the most profitable transactions are available first and cheaper rental options take effect further down the road. The move could be copied by other studios, forcing consumers to wait nearly a month if they want to rent popular movies from Netflix. ... The studio is hoping that the four-week window will push consumers interested in watching movies at home to buy the DVDs or pay a premium to rent them from stores like Blockbuster or from Internet and cable video-on-demand services. Warner Bros. already imposes a 28-day window on $1-a-night kiosk firm Redbox."

Submission + - Why DRM Cannot Open Up New Business Models

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02, 2007 @04:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: Techdirt has a cool post up that doesn't just explain why DRM is bad, but gives a really interesting economic explanation for why DRM cannot create successful new business models. Since the RIAA and MPAA keep insisting that DRM will create new business models, it's useful to see an argument for why that's basically impossible.

Comment Good Podcasts (Score 1) 90

by lemkepf on Friday March 24, 2006 @02:52PM (#14989708) Attached to: Good Podcasts and Podcatchers?

I listen to a few...

The Signal; A podcast about Firefly and Serenity.
http://signal.serenityfirefly.com/

TWIT; Basically Leo Laporte and his crew talk about tech stuff for an hour.
http://www.twit.tv/

Slice of SciFi; for all the science fiction news you could shake a stick at.
http://www.sliceofscifi.com/

FireflyTalk is good too...
http://fireflytalk.libsyn.com/

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