Internet Archive

The Web constantly changes and evolves. That, of course, is what makes the Internet so exciting,……wants to make it easier to access older versions of a web page without having to go to the Internet Archive. To do this, the project is using a relatively obscure feature of the hypertext…

waderoush writes "Brewster Kahle of the San Francisco-based Internet Archive announced today that all 1.6 million books scanned and digitized by the Archive will be available for reading on XO laptops built by the Cambridge, MA-based One Laptop Per Child Foundation. The announcement came during a…

It always gives us joy to tell our readers that Microsoft is actually doing cool things. The……Developers are also encouraged to create collections from existing online datasets, such as the Internet Archive or data.gov. It's very exciting, indeed; and it's available for Windows…

A new initiative from the non-profit Internet Archive aims to make all books, commercial or public domain, available for digital distribution. If it works, Amazon could be in serious trouble.

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At 14 minutes to midnight last night, Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American……by the Open Book Alliance, a consortium of Google's opponents including Microsoft and Amazon. The Internet Archive said, "None of the proposed changes appear to address the fundamental flaws…

La organización sin ánimo de lucro Internet Archive ha anunciado que prepara un servicio abierto de compra y préstamo de libros digitales. Se trata de BookServer. El sistema permitirá a los buscadores indexar la oferta de libros electrónicos en la Red. BookServer no gestionará el comercio…

Will Google play? The Internet Archive and various like-minded partners have launched an open architecture for selling and lending digital books online, an effort to consolidate the fledgling market for net texts - and give Google a little food for thought.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland…

It wasn't long ago that we heard about the imminent demise of one of the net's most infamous and……no longer be accessible at Geocities itself, they will be preserved in our hearts — and on the Internet Archive, of course. But merely being not deleted is hardly an honor fit for one the…

DIASER is a distributed Internet archive system and data vault application. It combines a disk-based backup volume management system and triple redundancy with a storage architecture designed to structure months to years of long term sustainable archiving space. It is a quick and low-cost way to…

Das gemeinnützige Archive.org will Digitalbücher sammeln, verkaufen, verleihen. Statt vieler geschlossener Plattformen plant Web-Visionär Brewster Kahle ein unabhängiges Zentralarchiv für E-Books. Das Projekt wird scheitern, wenn die Verlage ihre Blockadehaltung gegen das Web nicht aufgeben.

The Internet Archive has just unveiled their ambitious project called BookServer, which will allow users to find, buy, or borrow digital books from sources all across the web. The system, built on an open architecture and using open book formats, promises that the books housed there will work on…

Congratulations to Brewster Kahle and Peter Brantley of the Internet Archive for the very exciting, maybe sea-changing debut of the BookServer initiative. Possibly some real competition to Google, Amazon and Apple. Here is a re-post of Fran Toolan's detailed account of yesterday's event. The…

Beware the cookie before dinner Google Books Settlement Con  As part of his ongoing campaign against Google's $125m book-scanning pact, the Internet Archive's Peter Brantley has warned that even if authors opt-out of Google's Book Search service, the web giant will still have the power to mine…

URL shorteners are problematical, as everybody knows, but with the rise of Twitter and its ilk……(as tr.im did last August). Now a group of such companies, organized under the auspices of the Internet Archive, has formed a non-profit entity to hold URL-shortening databases in escrow,…