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Lord almighty, we are DRM-free at last!

By roblord roblord Jan 7, 2009 4:31 pm
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Warning: Industry punditry ahead. Adjust your speed and headlamps.  So, yesterday Apple expanded “iTunes Plus”, which removes the proprietary DRM use limitations on songs. It’s not a digital media industry game changer but rather a significant game accelerator and a net positive for Apple and iTunes, Pioneers and Songbird and the digital media ecosystem. Non-DRM’d songs [...]

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more mashiness than a mountain of monkeys

By stevel stevel Sep 26, 2008 12:49 pm
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We’ve been working on improving mashTape for the upcoming Genesis release.  Originally, mashTape was sort of thrown together haphazardly as an “extra-time” project… we finally got some time to give it some true and proper love, and well… it shows.  The new mashTape has been completely re-written from the ground up to be more extensible [...]

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Who wants free music?

By stevel stevel Jul 1, 2008 8:56 pm

The fine folks over at Mashable blogged a sweet list of 30+ sites that carry free and legal music. Go check it out, in Songbird of course.

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Return of the RIA?

By roblord roblord May 6, 2008 1:31 pm
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Mozilla’s Mark Finkle recently concluded that the term RIA, Rich Internet Application, has lost its meaning. RIA (the acronym) has jumped the shark. I find that I can no longer use RIA to describe anything anymore. The definition has been watered down and twisted to the point that nearly any application can be called RIA. [...]

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ars technica on ianloic on songbird

By stevel stevel Apr 16, 2008 10:07 am
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ryan over at ars technica blogged about ian’s talk @ LUG Radio Live this past weekend where ian talked about the need for a user agent (ahem, Songbird) for the media web. ryan seemed to grok things spot-on with accurate critique as well as understanding the premise of what we’re shooting for. i like that [...]

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