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Re: Navio: The DRM start-up in Apple’s backyard

Simon Willison — Wed, 24 May 2006 05:12:54 -0000

Apple's DRM technology doesn't make it hard to play music on an iPod if it came from another store - it's the iPod's LACK of DRM software (for the Windows Media DRM format) that stops you from doing that. Purchased music that hasn't been crippled by DRM - for example, songs bought from cdbaby.com - will play on the iPod just fine.

Re: Navio: The DRM start-up in Apple’s backyard

Simon Willison — Wed, 24 May 2006 05:14:37 -0000

Oops, magnatune.com is the site I meant, not cdbaby.

Re: Django media-serving dev webserver

Simon Willison — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 07:30:06 -0000

This should help: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/stat...

Re: Ross doesn’t trust Microsoft’s approach to Web

Simon Willison — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:59:32 -0000

That's an interesting list, but it misses out what is in my opinion the most important benefit of all: building on open source lets you take charge of your own destiny. If you're developing software why settle for a platform that doesn't give you total control?

Re: Why do I need Windows Vista?

Simon Willison — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:49:54 -0000

I know it's been said time and time again already, but any chance of transcoding these to Flash video (or Quicktime or something)? The user experience for Windows Media on the Mac is pretty terrible, which means that a chunk of the target audience for these videos (those of us on a non-Windows OS) have trouble watching them. Can you even watch WMVs on Linux?

Even uploading to Google Video would help fix this problem, because it can transcode to Flash for you.

Re: Google bullish on Atom, Microsoft bullish on RSS?

Simon Willison — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:38:30 -0000

How does the Microsoft RSS implementation deal with the HTML-in-title problem?

Re: If I was a real journalist…

Simon Willison — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:00:47 -0000

He blinks in the first few episodes - not sure when he started editing the blinking out.

Re: The great Firefox 2 vs. IE 7 memory test

Simon Willison — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:12:00 -0000

I heard that IE has to create a new instance of each of your installed toolbars for every tab you have open - that's likely to have a big impact on performance. Robert: did you have any toolbars running during the test?