The idea for anywhereCD was great, maybe a decade ago, I remember a few digital music companies tried similar things but nothing ever on the scale of this. However now the labels are starting to change from their 'sue everyone' attitude which has helped contribute to the digital music monoculture where you play with Apple or you don't play at all. Perhaps most radical is Warner brothers who have basicly made their whole catalog available for free, online at imeem.com - a couple of months ago they were suing imeem over its 'youtube for music' model, but then they surprised everyone by signing a deal.
Apple seem to be the only people who've managed a paid digital music store with any success. eMusic has been going forever without any real traction, Napster continues to lose money, meanwhile you can get free, legal major label music from places like imeem.com which is all ad supported.
I remember when imeem launched its peer to peer social networking gizmo they made a great deal about the fine grained privacy settings that could be applied to everything that you were connected to, but over time they've reduced the ability of users to protect things, shifted everything from the software client to a website only, and morphed into something like 'Youtube for music'
You might have missed this imeem.com has been doing this for a while, as well as the usual selection of indie labels the massive news was that Warner Brothers music has basicly given them streaming rights to their catalog which includes hundreds of mainstream artists. All advertising supported and free (well I guess you have to sign up for an account)
That I read this on slashdot - a site who's alexa ratings have been skewed by an audiece who know the potency of the Alexa toolbar. (Look at the alexa graphs for one year ago and you'll see a massive jump in Slashdot, Digg and some other related sites)
Yes ratings can be hugely misleading, I remember hearing that Om Malik will walk out of any meeting where alexa stats are brought up by marketdroids.
I had no idea how young until I saw this video of a 2 year old girl playing old fashioned records - I'll wager this is probably the cutest reply to this topic, and the one most likely to give audiophiles a heart attack as they watch a toddler take the record from its sleeve and put it on the turntable.
I remember a linux kernel module which would forward USB packets across the network to another machine which could access them like a virtual USB interface. It was kinda buggy and I don't think it ever made it into the main linux kernel, but it was a neat trick regardless, the guy who developed it told me he developed it after he was laid off and looking for work, but he got a job pretty quickly and stopped working on it.
Recently while auditing user accounts this password turned up as one of the top 10 most common passwords - if you don't know, it's Fox Mulder's password in the X-Files. Passwords used in movies and tv are surprisingly common, 'joshua' is pretty common, and quite a few people use 'CPE1704TKS' proving that just because people remember detailed trivia from hacking movies they don't know what makes a good password.
http://www.imeem.com/ lets you change the privacy levels on every link to friends, groups, blogs and even individual pieces of info in your profile. So, you can certainly lock down your information if you're worried about NSA data mining.
It seems like such a simple feature I'm surprised that nobody else does it (or at least does it without sucking)
Unlike all the other purely web offerings imeem is built around a client and a distributed data model - making it technologicly the most interesting of the sites in the article. It's not been too successful so far but a lot of the smartest people I've met are using imeem - mostly because they're developers. It's really a shame, but the best technology rarely leads the market in popularity. As a company imeem is doing good things for open source, I see that they're really pushing the development of mono, particularly on OSX where they're using it as a platform to run the same.Net code as powers the windows client.
Mono is a more complete environment than any open source version of Java has ever managed - Miguel et al have done great things - now even commercial products like imeem are using it for their data center and Unix ports.
Of course If I'd actually read the aritcle I'd have realised that the reveiwers had been given 'special' DVD players last year for viewing advance copies of movies. 'Special' as in 'Special Olympics'
'The problem, it appears, was partly down to teething troubles with the limited edition DVD players issued last year to Bafta members. Developed by Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby, the players permit their owners to view encrypted DVD "screeners", but prevent the creation of pirate copies. Munich screeners were encoded for region one, which allows them to be played in the US and Canada, rather than region two, which incorporates most of Europe.'
They don't have laws such as the DMCA making it a crime to sell region free players, you ca walk into Tescos (a supermarket chain) and buy a region free DVD player with your milk and other groceries.
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I've seen some awesome stuff at Burning Man, and before you say anything, I was sober the whole time. Some of the home made machinery deserves a show of its own on Discovery.
Actually, there Napster and several other internet music companies (myplay, musicbank etc etc) all tried working with the labels and were universally stonewalled. The napster case was actually the catalyst that got the labels talking with the digital music companies, but by that time most of the 'legal' companies were in bad shape financially and folded. had built all the technology and sales models we see in the market years before the Itunes music store appeared and won all sorts of awards for innovation.
Oh yeah, if imeem isn't your thing then you can take a look at grouper, which is largely the same feature set wihtout the distributed search technology.
I mean the basic model hasn't seen any real innovation in the years it's been with us. Was I the only person who was completely underwhelmed by google chat - shouldn't the IM networks be extending their products and doing innovative stuff. Look at Imeem.com they've got an instant communication application that's does chat, blogs,file sharing, multimedia - and supposedly it all runs over an encrypted network with all hte content decentralised for speed and efficiency - like a distributed version of google.
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The idea for anywhereCD was great, maybe a decade ago, I remember a few digital music companies tried similar things but nothing ever on the scale of this. However now the labels are starting to change from their 'sue everyone' attitude which has helped contribute to the digital music monoculture where you play with Apple or you don't play at all. Perhaps most radical is Warner brothers who have basicly made their whole catalog available for free, online at imeem.com - a couple of months ago they were suing imeem over its 'youtube for music' model, but then they surprised everyone by signing a deal.
Apple seem to be the only people who've managed a paid digital music store with any success. eMusic has been going forever without any real traction, Napster continues to lose money, meanwhile you can get free, legal major label music from places like imeem.com which is all ad supported.
I remember when imeem launched its peer to peer social networking gizmo they made a great deal about the fine grained privacy settings that could be applied to everything that you were connected to, but over time they've reduced the ability of users to protect things, shifted everything from the software client to a website only, and morphed into something like 'Youtube for music'
The new imeem is way cooler.
You might have missed this imeem.com has been doing this for a while, as well as the usual selection of indie labels the massive news was that Warner Brothers music has basicly given them streaming rights to their catalog which includes hundreds of mainstream artists. All advertising supported and free (well I guess you have to sign up for an account)
That I read this on slashdot - a site who's alexa ratings have been skewed by an audiece who know the potency of the Alexa toolbar. (Look at the alexa graphs for one year ago and you'll see a massive jump in Slashdot, Digg and some other related sites)
Yes ratings can be hugely misleading, I remember hearing that Om Malik will walk out of any meeting where alexa stats are brought up by marketdroids.
I had no idea how young until I saw this video of a 2 year old girl playing old fashioned records - I'll wager this is probably the cutest reply to this topic, and the one most likely to give audiophiles a heart attack as they watch a toddler take the record from its sleeve and put it on the turntable.
Sounds like imeem.com, except you can do it with photos and music too.
I remember a linux kernel module which would forward USB packets across the network to another machine which could access them like a virtual USB interface. It was kinda buggy and I don't think it ever made it into the main linux kernel, but it was a neat trick regardless, the guy who developed it told me he developed it after he was laid off and looking for work, but he got a job pretty quickly and stopped working on it.
Since the linux version is forever a 'coming soon' rumour, maybe mono will let imeem work on my Ubuntu box.
Imeem may not have screwed up the video, but I on the other hand managed to screw up the link.
cuz, you know, has so much more geek cred than youtube. And imeem's video uploader didn't try to squish the 1:1 aspect ratio into 4:3 so it looks a lot better.
If you really want to see the mini episode you can check it out here, all 6 minutes of standing around in the TARDIS trying to explain the whole regeneration thing. http://meems.imeem.com/Xfr8x3GL/video/mNasvAfl/doc tor_who_mini_episode/
Ever wonder what the Doctor Who christmas get together must be like? http://meems.imeem.com/Xfr8x3GL/video/OKZE6cfu/doc tor_who_christmas_party/
Recently while auditing user accounts this password turned up as one of the top 10 most common passwords - if you don't know, it's Fox Mulder's password in the X-Files. Passwords used in movies and tv are surprisingly common, 'joshua' is pretty common, and quite a few people use 'CPE1704TKS' proving that just because people remember detailed trivia from hacking movies they don't know what makes a good password.
The whole of facebook is ripped off poorly from elsewhere, but the marketing has been nothing short of perfect.
http://www.imeem.com/ lets you change the privacy levels on every link to friends, groups, blogs and even individual pieces of info in your profile. So, you can certainly lock down your information if you're worried about NSA data mining.
It seems like such a simple feature I'm surprised that nobody else does it (or at least does it without sucking)
Unlike all the other purely web offerings imeem is built around a client and a distributed data model - making it technologicly the most interesting of the sites in the article. It's not been too successful so far but a lot of the smartest people I've met are using imeem - mostly because they're developers. It's really a shame, but the best technology rarely leads the market in popularity. .Net code as powers the windows client.
As a company imeem is doing good things for open source, I see that they're really pushing the development of mono, particularly on OSX where they're using it as a platform to run the same
It was one of the first tracks I DJ'd with - 132 bpm of mathematicly perfecty breakbeat.
Mono is a more complete environment than any open source version of Java has ever managed - Miguel et al have done great things - now even commercial products like imeem are using it for their data center and Unix ports.
Of course If I'd actually read the aritcle I'd have realised that the reveiwers had been given 'special' DVD players last year for viewing advance copies of movies. 'Special' as in 'Special Olympics' 'The problem, it appears, was partly down to teething troubles with the limited edition DVD players issued last year to Bafta members. Developed by Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby, the players permit their owners to view encrypted DVD "screeners", but prevent the creation of pirate copies. Munich screeners were encoded for region one, which allows them to be played in the US and Canada, rather than region two, which incorporates most of Europe.'
They don't have laws such as the DMCA making it a crime to sell region free players, you ca walk into Tescos (a supermarket chain) and buy a region free DVD player with your milk and other groceries.
I've seen some awesome stuff at Burning Man, and before you say anything, I was sober the whole time. Some of the home made machinery deserves a show of its own on Discovery.
Actually, there Napster and several other internet music companies (myplay, musicbank etc etc) all tried working with the labels and were universally stonewalled. The napster case was actually the catalyst that got the labels talking with the digital music companies, but by that time most of the 'legal' companies were in bad shape financially and folded. had built all the technology and sales models we see in the market years before the Itunes music store appeared and won all sorts of awards for innovation.
Oh yeah, if imeem isn't your thing then you can take a look at grouper, which is largely the same feature set wihtout the distributed search technology.
I mean the basic model hasn't seen any real innovation in the years it's been with us. Was I the only person who was completely underwhelmed by google chat - shouldn't the IM networks be extending their products and doing innovative stuff. Look at Imeem.com they've got an instant communication application that's does chat, blogs,file sharing, multimedia - and supposedly it all runs over an encrypted network with all hte content decentralised for speed and efficiency - like a distributed version of google.
So leave IM and head for the next gen.