Monday, January 23, 2006

It's time for the Sundance Festival. Watch the films here. comment []  trackback []  5:56:32 PM

Check out Oboe again (if you read the last post). It's pretty incredible. I signed up, installed the firefox api, went to music.podshow.com and was able to "sideload" all my podsafe music to my "locker." Cool. Now I can hear my stuff at work without using my ipod (ipod cables are a drag). comment []  trackback []  2:53:36 PM

Oboe Offers Portable Playlist. Chiggers writes to tell us that Mad Penguin has an interesting look at Oboe, the new music service from MP3Tunes. For a monthly fee Oboe allows you unlimited space to create a cross-platform music playlist available anywhere you have an internet connection via their AJAX-enabled GUI. The audio player still needs a little work but overall it is an interesting idea. [Slashdot] comment []  trackback []  2:29:25 PM

World of Warcraft AQ Gates Open!. Tayman writes "Wow...who didn't see this one coming? The players on the World of Warcraft Medivh server opened the gates to AQ. What happened next? The server crashed repeatedly. Why create content the servers can't handle? The very first time I read about this patch, I knew the servers would crash. The more people who open the gates, the more angry customers Blizzard will have in my opinion. With 5million+ subscribers, you would think Blizzard would have the best servers/connection money can buy. Although, I'm sure it's more complicated than simply plugging in a few ram chips and faster processors though. Most of the people involved in the raid are having a great time though. Could this be the most epic battle ever introduced to the mmorpg market? All signs point to yes. Let's see how long the mobs will respawn. Hopefully, the people of the Medivh server haven't seen anything yet. Either way, I would hate to be a network admin for Blizzard atm. ^_^ Here are some pics of the event. Thanks go out to all of those who took these pics. World of Warcraft AQ Pics Check out MMORPG Veteran to keep up with the events as they unfold." Update: 01/23 13:44 GMT by Z : Additionally, brandor wrote in with some pictures and video of the event. [Slashdot] comment []  trackback []  10:25:12 AM