Well, if you haven’t heard yet, it looks like WinAmp is done. The final developers have left the ship and it doesn’t appear that there’s any reason for AOL to attempt to revive it. WinAmp is perhaps the iconographic dot-com success/victim. WinAmp clearly pushed more than one industry in to a panicked rethinking of strategy [...]
I’m pleased to announce, episode 2 of my podcast First Crack is now available. This episode, entitled, “There Are No Users”, I talk about how in an interconnected media environment – we are all developers. Point your iPodder to First Crack to received the episodes as they’re published.
Apple’s iPod is a closed environment. Unlike radio, the music on an iPod is limited to the owner’s music library. Personally, I’ve hit the “2,000 songs and nothing’s on” wall. For the past couple weeks, I’ve been looking for a solution. Is it digging into MixMatcher or picking up a Sirius Receiver, like Jen? Ultimately, [...]
The Pizza Matrix over at the ACLU’s site illustrates the dangers of connecting all our databases together in a “Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange.” The program would connect Drivers License information with Amazon purchases and take-out dinner orders. Other than identifying who has a vast collection of Catcher in the Rye, this program will burn up [...]
Philippe has introduced an interesting implementation for ‘skip-to’ navigation on his blog at emps.l-c-n.com. He uses the familiar (and accepted) method of positioning the skip-to links off screen via CSS (setting them to diplay: none, while oft-documented, will actually render them invisible to many screen readers). This ensures that screen readers and text browser will [...]
I have posted this plea from the people at Save BetaMax. Serious limits to the manner in which we use our content could be the result of not making your voice heard. Please take a moment and sign up to call a representative. Thank you. ———————————— Anyone who has ever used an iPod, taped TV [...]
The Minnesota teen charged with a variant of the blaster worm looks like he’ll be spending a few years in Jail. What bothers me most about this is that the press has given little scrutiny to the other big culprit…Microsoft. Yes, this kid wrote a few basic lines of code, but without the wonderfully inept [...]
I’ve heard TiVo and other personal video recorders are great. How it could change the way I watch TV. How I could skip and fast-forward commercials immediately returing to my favorite program. How this will force advertisers to pursue non-interruptive methods of getting their message across. Maybe make TV more like real life by exploring [...]
In the interest of faster services Brainerd McDonalds is the first in the area to outsource it’s drive-thru to a Colorado call center. “This technology is going to transform the industry, no question about it,” – said Steve Bigari – developer of the call center technology. I first covered this intriguing trend in Faster Big [...]
There is something about it when a song comes on the radio that you haven’t heard and you catch yourself moving to it or singing it and you didn’t even know you knew it. May I repeat a song on the radio, I haven’t had that experience in a very long time and frankly, I [...]