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  1. more info by BigBir3d · · Score: 1 · on Six Giant Music Retailers Will Try Online Sales Together

    Echo

    Press release

    They even have some patents that sound like a p2p app.

    Interesting that it is the retailers of music, not the makers of music that are doing this... I guess they are tired of the industry's failure to adapt.

  2. more info by BigBir3d · · Score: 1 · on Six Giant Music Retailers Will Try Online Sales Together

    Echo

    Press release

    They even have some patents that sound like a p2p app.

    Interesting that it is the retailers of music, not the makers of music that are doing this... I guess they are tired of the industry's failure to adapt.

  3. more info by BigBir3d · · Score: 1 · on Six Giant Music Retailers Will Try Online Sales Together

    Echo

    Press release

    They even have some patents that sound like a p2p app.

    Interesting that it is the retailers of music, not the makers of music that are doing this... I guess they are tired of the industry's failure to adapt.

  4. Re:Macromedia keeps it proprietary. by GrouchoMarx · · Score: 2 · on Flash and Open Source

    Have you used echo.com? They're moving servers at the moment (natch), but once they're up again check them out. Their an audio streaming site that is entirely JSP and Flash, and is extremely well designed. They only downside is that they do browser checking and reject non-NS4/IE browsers. But their use of Flash as an interactive page design system is amazing.

  5. still some innovation by bmarklein · · Score: 1 · on MP3.com Summit - The Music Revolution is Over
    I think there is still some innovation out there. I just discovered echo.com which has this interesting web-based IM client/streaming audio thing, kind of like Launchcast but you can listen together with other people. It has a buddy list where you can see what your friends are listening to and join in listening with them if a song you like comes on. It's not music on demand, but you can rate the music and it seems to be doing a pretty good job of picking up on my tastes. Also one of the coolest uses of Flash I've seen. Unfortunately doesn't run on Linux (not sure why, since Flash and RealPlayer both work on Linux), but works fine in VMWare.

    Anyway, I was suprised I'd never heard about this until a friend told me about it. Kind of gives me some hope that the labels haven't completely crushed any hope for little guys doing something interesting.

  6. Orange County/Fullerton Geekdom by Halon50 · · Score: 1 · on Constructing A Geek House

    As the king of my own mini-geek house, I tend to agree. Geeks have this savage territoriality that is almost second nature; akin to the Geek Drinks like those at ThinkGeek.com, a geek's dominant presence must be felt from your first sip all the way to the bottom of the can, when you get annoyed and toss the empty shell aside.

    Cheesy metaphors aside, I have a 4 bedroom (well, 3.5 really) house amateurishly wired up for local network mayhem. Though the WAN is a mere 500Kb/s cable modem connection, I've found it more than sufficient to run the (mostly 486 & pentium) 10 machines that are pretty much only active to run Distributed.net's little cow TSR, or rack up points for my Echo.com internet radio rewards account.

    Allow me to (briefly) beat my chest: the cable modem is hooked directly to a 1-port router, then through an 8-port 10/100TX switch to various parts of the house. 4-port hubs are strategically located in certain spots (2 rooms I call "my own," for instance), and if I manage to work up the nerve, I will eventually run a line to the last part of the house that isn't wired other than the garage: the "grandmother" unit attached to the front area.

    Now, my amateurish question of the day: since I already have a Cable/DSL router acting as a gateway of sorts, is it worth the trouble to stick a Redhat/Apache machine in between it and the rest of the network to act as a firewall and web server?

  7. A new Napster alternative by bleeeeck · · Score: 2 · on Napster Usage Quadruples

    I've been trying to find a good way to hear new (to me) music. Downloading random mp3s from Napster or IRC just doesn't seem that productive. I found a new site Echo.com that lets you customize streaming music to your computer. As each song plays you get to rate the song, the artist, and the album. You can also rate them on the web site The web site then uses these rankings plus the types of music you select when you set up your station to send you a custom stream.

    Your steam includes songs you've ranked highly and new music that is similar to what you've ranked highly (you get to select how much new music you hear compared to ranked songs). It has an incredible selection of music. Rock (old and new), Jazz, Rap, Country, Religious, and other types. There are well known artists (to me at least) like The Black Crowes, Eminem, Pink Floyd, Dr. Dre, Fleetwood Mac, and Limp Bizkit mixed in with people I've never heard of. Exactly what I want.

    You can set up different "stations" with different music types and invite other people to listen. You can also chat with the other people listening to the same station as you. It requires Real Player 8, Flash, and a recent version of Netscape or Internet Explorer and it works great on my Win 2000 box. They also give you points for listening (based on how long you listen), and you can redeem your points for stuff.

    This seems like it would be a great way for new artists to get noticed. The player has a BUY button on it that takes you to amazon to let you buy the artists CD, and if people were rating them highly, they would be played more often as an Echo suggestion.