Monday, December 15, 2003

MU3 playlists and iTunes.... Marc says "I'm sitting here plugging in my brand new spanking Laszlo MP3 player." OK dude, where's the goods?  Come on.  How do we "all" get to play with the new Lazlo MP3 player? Welcome back Marc!! Marc's Voice: MU3 playlists and iTunes..... Leonard Lin is bitching about iTunes and MU3 playlists.  Talk about coincidence! I'm sitting here plugging in my brand new spanking Laszlo MP3 player. Man oh Man - Noah is gonna love this!  And Harold, and Lisa Rein and Doc and Jonathan Peterson - and just about anybody who's a music lover!  Full MP3 player - right there in your blog gutter! But first - here's Leonard's bitch..... God I hate how iTunes handles m3u's. What kind of retarded behavior is to load streaming files into the main Library, and then of course to completely lose track of the original m3u order. Hello? What's the point of a PLAYLIST if you're going to ignore it? We now return to our regularly scheduled link-lists. [random($foo)]  8:14:37 PM  comment []    trackback []     Use the spectrum Smart Mobs: Use the spectrum. This article in Businessweek gives the lowdown on three technologies that are under development.They are Smart antennas which are designed to extend the range of Wi-Fi.Mesh networks which consist of wireless devices that function as hubs that relay signals to their nearest neighbors so that transmissions are efficiently routed to their targets,and Agile radios which scan the airwaves for unused space in order to avoid any signal disruption caused by traffic congestion. Beyond Wi-Fi: A New Wireless Age [Smart Mobs] 7:44:05 PM  comment []    trackback []     BitTorrent and RSS Create Disruptive Revolution eWeek.com - Steve Gillmor's Collaboration and Messaging Topic Center: BitTorrent and RSS Create Disruptive Revolution. XML syndication and peer-to-peer meet to extend the power and efficiency of web-based information distribution. 7:42:12 PM  comment []    trackback []     Build Your Own NOC Slashdot: Build Your Own NOC 7:33:28 AM  comment []    trackback []     Toshiba Develops Tiny Disk for Phones (AP) Yahoo! News - Technology: Toshiba Develops Tiny Disk for Phones (AP). AP - Toshiba Corp. has developed a hard disk drive about the size of a nickel that can be used to store music and video in mobile phones and other portable gadgets. 7:32:40 AM  comment []    trackback []     Help the music industry figure out which way to jump Boing Boing Blog: Help the music industry figure out which way to jump. Aaron Swartz has started a blog to record and discuss "alternative compensation schemes" -- business models for music in the era of P2P nets. Here's the proposal in a nutshell: Some group of people pay a small fee (like a couple dollars a month). In return, they can download whatever they want, however they want. We track what is downloaded and then distribute the money received, in proportion, to the people responsible for the songs. Everybody wins: users get all the music they want, software developers can continue innovating, and the industry gets paid. 7:31:49 AM  comment []    trackback []     Loudeye builds off-the-shelf music store CNET News.com - Front Door: Loudeye builds off-the-shelf music store. Working with Microsoft, the digital music company is expected to launch a new service helping other companies set up online music stores. 7:29:32 AM  comment []    trackback []     Will the real VOIP please stand up? Werblog: Will the real VOIP please stand up?. David Beckemeyer has a nice post clarifying the distinction between the current voice over broadband deployments and "real" end-to-end voice over IP (via James Seng). However, it's important not to dismiss the former because it relies on interconnection with the old public switched telephone network.  Voice over broadband, which is what Vonage and most of the recent carrier announcements use, crystallizes the new reality of voice as an application.  The application provider doesn't need the cooperation of the network operator, just as eBay or Amazon.com didn't need to pay America Online for the privilege of offering their sites on the Web.  Of course, the network operators don't like that separation of applications and transport.  That's why they are pushing for regulatory changes that would allow them to use their control over last-mile pipes to ban or tax third-party applications.  7:24:30 AM  comment []    trackback []     Syndication gets forked? The Scobleizer Weblog: Syndication gets forked?. Ah, while I was away Sam Ruby put up a bunch of info about Atom (the new syndication format that competes with RSS, both 1.0 and 2.0). Finally some answers as to what's better about Atom. I still wonder what would happen if Microsoft wrote those same slides? Imagine we take Atom's spec and then demonstrate 20 places we could improve Atom as justification for coming up with a new spec? Where does it end? I don't know. But, how is this not "embrace and extend" only this time Microsoft isn't behind it. So, if Atom is supported by the community (which I think it is getting quite a bit of support since IBM and Google and SixApart are behind this new spec) what justification will there be when another group comes in and gets support for yet another new spec going? Forget Microsoft for a minute. There are other players in the marketplace too. What will eBay do? Amazon? The other search engine companies (think they won't want to come up with something that "embraces and extends" what Google is using?)? Yahoo? Reuters? Associated Press? CNN? Disney? All the cell phone players? They all have big stakes in the syndication business. Now that the syndication business has forked why won't it fork again and again and again? Oh well. For now I'm sticking with RSS 2.0 until the market forces me to fork along. 7:24:00 AM  comment []    trackback []

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