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Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

mdoeff — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:26:33 -0000

If you're looking for a multi-room solution I think you'll find that the Sonos price is very competitive, especially if you use the ZP80, which hooks into your existing stereo (the ZP100 has a built in and costs more). With that said, if you're looking for a more affordable solution you should take a look at Squeezebox by Slim Devices.

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

mdoeff — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:30:41 -0000

Sonos has support for Pandora - http://urltea.com/29k9. You can also access internet radio, subscription music services such as Rhapsody and Napster, and SIRIUS satellite radio.

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

mdoeff — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:54:02 -0000

Cool. Just keep your eyes on the road!

Re: Heartbroken

mdoeff — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:21:53 -0000

Stairway to Heaven:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Why Lane Hartwell is wrong

mdoeff — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:04:31 -0000

I have no idea about copyright law, so I'm not going to comment on that. One thing that I'd like to add here is that I contacted Lane about 8 months ago about using one of her photos on a blog post - http://urltea.com/2dh8. It took all of two minutes to ask for permission to use the photo and she had no problem with it as long as it was properly credited. This whole mess could have been avoided if the Richter Scales had asked for permission in the first place or if they had been more courteous when she contacted them.

Re: Why Lane Hartwell is wrong

mdoeff — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:17:38 -0000

Creative Commons is not synonymous with unregulated sharing of content. From the CC about page (h ttp://creativecommons.org/a... ):

"Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright — all rights reserved — and the public domain — no rights reserved. Our licenses help you keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of your work — a “some rights reserved” copyright."

If I understand your comment (correct me if I'm wrong), you're saying that we should just ignore the various versions of copyright that CC clearly defines and just assume that if it's on the internet, it's free for the taking.

Maybe you're the one who should stay away from that Creative Commons party.

Re: How spam will likely enter the Twitter community (Scripting News)

mdoeff — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:31:48 -0000

Sssshhhhh! Don't give the spammers any ideas!

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

mdoeff — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:59:23 -0000

This is such a shame. YottaMusic was one of my favorite services of 2008. Please keep us posted on what you hear from Luke. Like you said, is there anything that we can do to bring this back? I'd be willing to pay a monthly or annual fee to use this.

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

mdoeff — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:14:51 -0000

I'm wondering what specific features of the YottaMusic site Rhapsody felt threatened by. Rhapsody was on the right track when they released API's to access they're catalog and now they appear to be taking a huge step back when they shut down a site that successfully built a service around their API's. What kind of example does this set for other developers who want to build services around Rhapsody?

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

mdoeff — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:19:40 -0000

Another example of a company integrating with Rhapsody with a separate player is TiVo.

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

mdoeff — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:54:06 -0000

TechCrunch has picked up this story: http://urltea.com/2gix

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

mdoeff — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:06:31 -0000

I'm in mourning.

Re: Scoble and his Facebook data (Scripting News)

mdoeff — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:18:16 -0000

Are you open to the possibility that this has nothing to do with FB wanting to close off their data and is simply FB protecting themselves from automated scripts that can slow down the site for everyone?

Re: Scoble and his Facebook data (Scripting News)

mdoeff — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:29:15 -0000

Adding to my last comment...
If the script that Scoble was running was intended for something that had nothing to do with portability of the social graph - e.g. if it scraped your friends' profile photos and created a pretty collage for personal use - would this even be a news story?

Re: Trade Secrets 2.0? (Scripting News)

mdoeff — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:43:46 -0000

Here are a couple: Scodor.com, Gabcast.com. I bookmarked these but have not tried them out yet.

Re: Rhapsody: An Apology Of Sorts

mdoeff — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:05:35 -0000

Hey Fred, one of the services that Ben mentioned in his comments is MOG. Just wondering if you've had a chance to check it out yet. I've set up a profile there and had a look around but I'll need to spend some time with it before I can make a fair comparison to YottaMusic.

Re: Steve Jobs keynote (Scripting News)

mdoeff — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:29:14 -0000

I'm really surprised that Twitter didn't do something to scale up for the increased load. They need to be able to deliver on days like this.

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

mdoeff — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:49:36 -0000

I haven't had time to try it out yet but I've heard some good things about Mojo. https://www.deusty.com/soft... Another one that is worth a look is MediaMaster http://www.mediamaster.com/

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

mdoeff — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:15:45 -0000

Thanks for the link to Heavy Fog!

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

mdoeff — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:00:36 -0000

That was me a couple of years ago. I ended up ripping about 200 AAC protected songs to CD's and then ripping the CD's to mp3. It was time consuming and I lost some quality but it was worth it in the end.

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

mdoeff — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:16:11 -0000

Happy Birthday and welcome to the club! I turned 39 this past August.

Re: Event Firehoses On Twitter

mdoeff — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:15:12 -0000

One of my Twitter contacts had a interesting comment related to this yesterday. He TiVo'd the Oscars and had to turn off his Twitter because he didn't want to see any spoilers while he watched the event hours after it happened. I'm finding that I'm watching more and more events in real time. The networks must love this trend because they have more captive viewers for commercials.

This got me to thinking that someone should build a tool that allows you to timeshift your Twitterstream. For example, if you started watching the Oscars 4 hours later, you could dial back your Twitter 4 hours (e.g. with a timeline slider at the bottom of the page) and you'd be able to see your Twitterstream in synch with the show that you're watching. You're own tweets would be back dated based on the timeshift. BTW, my wife thinks I'm nuts with these ideas.

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

mdoeff — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:25:35 -0000

It is a happy day indeed.

Re: This is brand new big shit, but

mdoeff — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:26:25 -0000

I'd like to see a slick Twitter client built for iPhone that hooked into my Address Book and also told me which of my contacts were in my geographical area based on their location.

Re: Tuneage

mdoeff — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:45:32 -0000

I like it. Reminds me of Matt Nathanson with a little harder edge.