eMusic has released a preview of their new download manager, which looks like an attempt to provide features like the iTunes Music Store interface in iTunes. The current manager is just a helper application that I assume is primarily designed to only let you download the tracks that you have paid for. The new application [...]
Entries from April 2007
On the topic of eMusic
April 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Another iPod theory
April 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Blackfriars Marketing speculates that Apple may be restricting third party developers from deploying apps on the iPhone out of fears that their apps will use too much power and run the battery down. (Via Andrew Shebanow)
Big brother is watching you, and your pharmacist
April 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Did you know that the government keeps track of every prescription filled in the United States? Me neither.
Be careful where you enter your email address
April 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments
The New York Times has an article on “free offers” on Web sites that turn out to be something else:
I could picture my husband buying tickets online. I could imagine one of those annoying direct-marketing offers popping up. I could even picture him clicking on it. But I couldn’t see him entering a [...]
eMusic is still growing
April 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments
eMusic now has over 300,000 subscribers, and is the second largest online music service, after the iTunes Music Store. Aside from the occasional CD purchase, it has become my sole source of new music. When I first subscribed, I wondered how much music the site offers that I’d really want, but I never have a [...]
Using Yahoo Pipes
April 18th, 2007 · No Comments
Stephen O’Grady used Yahoo Pipes to solve an actual problem. Seems promising.
How big is the club?
April 18th, 2007 · 5 Comments
Today Tim Bray asks how many people are really members of the a club that’s hard to succinctly describe:
In March, I gave a keynote at Web Design World in San Francisco. Frankly, it did not go that well; in particular, the crowd didn’t laugh at my jokes. Here’s one of them, more or [...]
Spammer infests hosting account
April 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I was just reading about a Dreamhost customer whose hosting account was compromised by search engine spammers. They gained access to his account, altered all of his files to include an iframe that linked to some kind of search engine spam, and uploaded a bunch of other files to his account that were also obviously [...]
How to build online community
April 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Teresa Nielsen Hayden on the blogger Code of Conduct:
You can’t have a good online discussion without moderation.
She’d know, too. Making Light is one of the most healthy and interesting online communities you’ll find.
For what it’s worth, I do delete comments. I delete anything that looks like spam, and I don’t tolerate the pointlessly [...]
War and public opinion
April 17th, 2007 · No Comments
Alex Tabarrok reports on a couple of polling trends that explain a lot about how the public comes to support wars:
The public’s opinion of past wars improves as a new war approaches. Thus, after Vietnam most people thought the war was a mistake and this held true for decades until the beginning [...]