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Includes a list of Web 2.0 companies recently acquired by Yahoo
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Media sharing service
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Slick, web 2.0 family tree builder
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A heartfelt acceptance speech by Sacha Baron Cohen at the Golden Globes
Entries from January 2007
links for 2007-01-17
January 17th, 2007 ·
Tags: Daily Links
links for 2007-01-16
January 16th, 2007 ·
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Many interesting graphs related to iTunes sales growth
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Lots of cool Pandora extensions
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“Netflix is introducing a service to deliver movies and television shows directly to users’ PCs, not as downloads but as streaming video…”
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Screen shots of the new Netflix video download service
Tags: Daily Links
Last month in Manhattan Beach
January 16th, 2007 ·
links for 2007-01-15
January 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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Details on the “crowd sourced” video produced by current.tv and the Shins
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A “where are they now” article focused on some Web 1.0 high flyers
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Turns your car into a Wi-Fi hotspot
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The “jukebox in the sky” meme
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What’s more important? The music that you own or the meta data associated with it - playlist, ratings, play counts, etc.? Also, there is an important lesson in here about doing regular back-up’s of your iTunes Music Library XML file
Tags: Daily Links
User generated music video
January 14th, 2007 ·
Several hundred fans contributed their amateur video to the latest video from the Shins.
Tags: Music
Why I use a music-subscription service
January 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Fred Wilson at A VC recently wrote a post commenting on David Kirkpatrick’s recent column Looking beyond the iPhone, where he makes the case that the future of digital music is Rhapsody, not iTunes. Most of the comments were in favor of the iTunes model. I’m with Fred and David on this. This is the comment that I left on Fred’s blog…
I’m one of those people who used to say I would never use a subscription music service. When I bought my Sonos system a year and a half ago, I tried out a free 30-day trial of Rhapsody. I was hooked and continue to use Rhapsody to this day. Here’s why I like it…
- every Tuesday when new music is released, I can find 95% of it on Rhapsody and add it to my Rhapsody library
- if I discover a new artist, album, track, etc. on Pandora, last.fm, on a music blog, on Hype Machine, on the radio, etc. I can go to Rhapsody and find it (again, 95% of the time i can find it). Using a subscription music service doesn’t mean you don’t listen to & discover new music through other channels.
- I have gone through the effort of adding most of the music that I own (mostly ripped CD’s and a couple hundred tracks that I bought on iTunes when it first came out) and added it to my Rhapsody catalog. This allows me to access my music from the “cloud” wherever I am. This wouldn’t be possible on an iPod because my digital music collection is several hundred GB. Yes, I know that there are other ways of doing this through Orb and Streampad but that limits my collection to what I already own.
- I rarely deal with the crappy Rhapsody software. I listen to Rhapsody on Sonos (which has a great user interface) and on YottaMusic, which accesses the Rhapsody catalog through an API. In a few months I will be able to access my subscription music wirelessly through devices such as Sansa Connect. With free Wi-Fi coming soon to my area (San Francisco) that means I can access Rhapsody 24×7 wirelessly wherever I am in San Francisco. By the way, YottaMusic gives you an option to scrobble your music to last.fm.
- if you want to own your digital music, don’t forget that you need to store it somewhere and back it up on a regular basis. Costs for this have come down but it will still run you a few hundred bucks to set up a system to store 100 GB of music and have it backed up somewhere. And you’ll still have a chance of losing it all if your house is hit with a fire, a flood, etc. With subscription-based music services this is a non-issue.
I don’t look at subscription-based music services as a replacement for purchasing music through iTunes or buying CD’s. I see it as a way of supplementing my music collection and expanding my access to it.
For the record, I have absolutely no connection to Rhapsody, YottaMusic, Sonos, or SanDisk (maker of Sansa).
Tags: Digital Music · Music
links for 2007-01-14
January 14th, 2007 ·
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I totally agree that the future of digital music is the “jukebox in the sky”
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Paula Abdul high as a kite on a local news show
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“These are vertiginous, thrilling times for music fans. Where once my only options were CDs and radio, I can now deploy a battery of devices, platforms, and formats to enjoy the music I already own and to find more.”
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A detailed look at the new Comcast Tivo. I’m happy to see that I won’t need to use the ugly Comcast remote.
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The new iPhone does it all
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I’ll put off reading this until later
Tags: Daily Links
links for 2007-01-13
January 13th, 2007 ·
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More details on the Venice Project, the new venture by the founders of Kazaa and Skype
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Web-based criticism in literature, music, television, film, games, theater and art from a diverse group of bloggers.
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A list of personalized dashboards
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Very funny
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A comprehensive iPhone round-up
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New beta feature allows you to clip videos and “sling” the content to your friends
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This looks very slick
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More positive comments about the Sansa Connect
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This video is a little rough but it gives some good details on the WiFi and song sharing features. This will be released in the U.S. in March.
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Video describing the WiFi enabled Sansa Connect.
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Michael Dell speaks with a blogger “round table” at CES 2007
Tags: Daily Links
links for 2007-01-11
January 11th, 2007 ·
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David Pogue gets a first-hand look at the iPhone
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Someone has already put up an iPhone fan site
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Coverage of the iPhone launch. Includes a rare interview with Steve Jobs.
Tags: Daily Links
iTunes 2 billion songs purchased on a graph
January 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Last February, I posted a graph showing the growth of the iTunes music store. Back then the big news was that Apple had sold their one billionth song. Lost in the shuffle of Steve Jobs’ huge announcements at MacWorld yesterday was the news that Apple recently sold their 2 billionth song on iTunes. That’s another billion songs in less than a year. So much for the recent speculation that iTunes sales are slowing. Here’s the updated graph…
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Date |
Songs Purchased (millions) |
Source |
| 05/15/2003 | 1 | Apple |
| 06/23/2003 | 5 | Apple |
| 09/8/2003 | 10 | Apple |
| 12/15/2003 | 25 | Apple |
| 03/15/2004 | 50 | Apple |
| 07/12/2004 | 100 | CNN |
| 12/16/2004 | 200 | Apple |
| 07/18/2005 | 500 | Apple |
| 02/24/2006 | 1000 | Apple |
| 01/09/2007 | 2000 | Apple |
graph created using NCES Create a Graph
Tags: Apple · Digital Music · Graphs · Tech News · iTunes
