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ars technica on ianloic on songbird

By stevel

Apr 16, 2008 10:07 am

Also filed under Media Web

Tagged as ars technica, ianloic, lug radio

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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Bukets of music

By stevel

Apr 10, 2008 9:55 am

Also filed under Development

Tagged as ubuket

One of the things we continually talk about is that Songbird is a platform. We’re not looking to build out the next iTunes Store ourselves. The whole vision of the Open Media Web is that we can be a user agent for anyone that wants to build out the next awesome music web [...]

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Future Thinkers

By jkoshi

Apr 4, 2008 3:24 pm

Also filed under Development

With daily activity around the music industry, more than a few of us out there think the industry is facing a era of change. Digital media exchange is on the rise. While many of us work on ways to change the landscape, others keenly watch the trends that will shape our future.
Our friends at [...]

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MacLife sings about the bird

By stevel

Apr 3, 2008 8:54 am

We got a pretty good review in MacLife recently on an article they did covering music blogs, and the best user agents for consuming them. It’s nice to see some more in-depth coverage of the bird in some commercial press beyond “it’s an iTunes rip-off!”

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You should see the plumage on that 0.5!

By stevel

Mar 31, 2008 1:42 pm

Also filed under Development

“Remarkable bird, the Songbird, idn’it, ay? Beautiful plumage”
(with apologies to Monty Python for the slight edit… but we have yet to make a Feather called “Norwegian Blue”)
There have been some great sightings of 0.5 so far, so I wanted to call out some of them here:

Eliot over at Wired has some kind words. While [...]

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