That's because it's 3 years away. And secondly because these style of articles are always of the form "The X Market will be Y big in Z years." Where Z is either 1,3,5 or 10.
What. You mean like AllOfMp3?
Somebody should just buy them and their technology and run the same system in the west with real royalty payments. But then it wouldn't be so cheap. And I wouldn't be able to use the Russian service.
Now all we need is a good old fashioned price war to get the price down to AllOfMp3 levels. I had hoped that Amazon would copy the AllOfMp3 format model (Any encoding you want priced per MB) but this is pretty close.
As I'm sure you all know, AllOfMp3 is still going.
It's now 18 months since the LibJingle announcement. And yet there's still no sign of anyone except Google using it. GTalk still looks like an Alpha. The whole IM market is still hopelessly fractured with very little chat interop between IM systems and virtually no interop for voice and video.
I really hoped that GTalk and LibJingle would lead to a link up between Google, Apple, AIM, Gaim, Jabber and all the 3rd party clients. There was even a press release where Google and Skype were talking about gateways and interop. Guess I was too optimistic.
What are they all doing?
I'd really appreciate it if one of the lawyers here could clarify something for me.
Is it illegal to download music from dubious sources in the UK, USA and Canada (to pick three)?
Notice I am not talking about sharing or uploading. And by dubious sources I mean Allofmp3.com (representing download services), Kazaa (Big P2P networks) and Soulseek (one to one sharing of hard drive directories).
Or to put it another way, how likely are you to a) be illegal and b) get caught and prosecuted if all you do is leach.
Just to be clear on the saga, I created gnews2rss.php as a quick hack to scrape Google news searches and turn them into RSS. I released the source as public domain and quite a lot of people are now running it round the web. I include some dummy reminders in the items a couple of times a month to ask people to host it themsleves and to email Google asking for them to produce the RSS themselves.
A few sites (including Ecademy.com which I run) were re-publishing the RSS on public web pages. We all received emails from Google asking us to stop. They're beef was with the re-publishing, not the scraping. I've never had Google ask me to take down the software or to stop scraping their site, only to stop re-publishing. So there's an implied sense that scraping Google for your own personal use in a personal RSS aggregator is not a problem.
The real issue here is that for all Google's cleverness and services, they don't produce any metadata. And their SOAP API hasn't changed or been added to in 2 1/2 years. I would love to see Search, Image, News, Froogle and so on produce RSS (or Atom, I don't care) and have a decent REST, XMLRPC or SOAP interface. Yahoo! with their news search and services like Technorati, Blogdex, Flikr and many others (evan Amazon and eBay) are pushing the boundaries out here. While Google seems to be just turning itself into another portmanteau portal by copying key features from MSN, Yahoo and AOL.
The second and related issue is that Google (like all the other search engines) do absolutely nothing with XML, RSS, RDF, FOAF and all the other rich structured data that gets lumped into something called the "Semantic Web". There's at least 15 million of these files out there now, but all the major search engines do with them is treat them like TXT files.
So please email Google and ask for RSS/Atom from News Search (and all the other services) so that I can retire gnews2rss.
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It was the Russians who did it. Nope, 4chan. Right, Russians on 4chan. Lulz!
+1 about the keyboard. home-end-pgup-pgdn on FN versions of the arrow keys is ridiculous. And the enter key needs to be about twice as big.
But surely somebody wandering around with a dowsing rod is an excellent way of clearing a minefield. As long as there's a steady queue of volunteers.
That's because it's 3 years away. And secondly because these style of articles are always of the form "The X Market will be Y big in Z years." Where Z is either 1,3,5 or 10.
Which is just one more reason why I intend to never travel to the USA ever again. In this life time, anyway.
What. You mean like AllOfMp3? Somebody should just buy them and their technology and run the same system in the west with real royalty payments. But then it wouldn't be so cheap. And I wouldn't be able to use the Russian service.
Now all we need is a good old fashioned price war to get the price down to AllOfMp3 levels. I had hoped that Amazon would copy the AllOfMp3 format model (Any encoding you want priced per MB) but this is pretty close. As I'm sure you all know, AllOfMp3 is still going.
Make every CCTV a Webcam. Why should they have all the fun?
And note that the new iPods are new hardware and may have encrypted firmware. Making Rockbox and iPodLinux a non option. Perhaps for ever.
It's now 18 months since the LibJingle announcement. And yet there's still no sign of anyone except Google using it. GTalk still looks like an Alpha. The whole IM market is still hopelessly fractured with very little chat interop between IM systems and virtually no interop for voice and video. I really hoped that GTalk and LibJingle would lead to a link up between Google, Apple, AIM, Gaim, Jabber and all the 3rd party clients. There was even a press release where Google and Skype were talking about gateways and interop. Guess I was too optimistic. What are they all doing?
I read this "Instead, AMP is built atop the company's Communicator XUL user interface framework." And thought AmpZilla
I'd really appreciate it if one of the lawyers here could clarify something for me. Is it illegal to download music from dubious sources in the UK, USA and Canada (to pick three)? Notice I am not talking about sharing or uploading. And by dubious sources I mean Allofmp3.com (representing download services), Kazaa (Big P2P networks) and Soulseek (one to one sharing of hard drive directories). Or to put it another way, how likely are you to a) be illegal and b) get caught and prosecuted if all you do is leach.
I'm the Julian Bond mentioned in the post.
Just to be clear on the saga, I created gnews2rss.php as a quick hack to scrape Google news searches and turn them into RSS. I released the source as public domain and quite a lot of people are now running it round the web. I include some dummy reminders in the items a couple of times a month to ask people to host it themsleves and to email Google asking for them to produce the RSS themselves.
A few sites (including Ecademy.com which I run) were re-publishing the RSS on public web pages. We all received emails from Google asking us to stop. They're beef was with the re-publishing, not the scraping. I've never had Google ask me to take down the software or to stop scraping their site, only to stop re-publishing. So there's an implied sense that scraping Google for your own personal use in a personal RSS aggregator is not a problem.
The real issue here is that for all Google's cleverness and services, they don't produce any metadata. And their SOAP API hasn't changed or been added to in 2 1/2 years. I would love to see Search, Image, News, Froogle and so on produce RSS (or Atom, I don't care) and have a decent REST, XMLRPC or SOAP interface. Yahoo! with their news search and services like Technorati, Blogdex, Flikr and many others (evan Amazon and eBay) are pushing the boundaries out here. While Google seems to be just turning itself into another portmanteau portal by copying key features from MSN, Yahoo and AOL.
The second and related issue is that Google (like all the other search engines) do absolutely nothing with XML, RSS, RDF, FOAF and all the other rich structured data that gets lumped into something called the "Semantic Web". There's at least 15 million of these files out there now, but all the major search engines do with them is treat them like TXT files.
So please email Google and ask for RSS/Atom from News Search (and all the other services) so that I can retire gnews2rss.