Archive for September, 2005

Hey look - there’s Eric Rice

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

When I first saw this picture - i actually thought it was working code:

XSPF Phase II

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

Lucas Gonze has an appeal for uptake.
Here’s a perfect post to followup on our philosophy. Take playlists for instance.
Mu3 was great when it was created, but falls far behind what we need as an industry. When I found out about XSPF I asked Lucas for it to be used for collections of all [...]

Phil groks it

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

Phil Pearson (an employee of Broadband Mechanics) responded to my Law #1:
This kind of sums up how BBM works: Canter’s Law #1.
As he says: “This will make sense - later”
Here’s my take on it:
- To make someone happy, you’ve got to support their format. To make everyone happy, you’ve got to support everyone’s formats.
- [...]

Thanks Arnaud - we love structured content like Reviews.

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

Arnaud Leene has put up a full fledged Review blog.
Truth be told - it’ll be Phil’s “micro-content aggregator” which will most appreciate Arnaud’s content. Yum yum yum.
BTW - speaking of Reviews - I also just noticed that Rotten Tomatoes was bought by IGN. This is an important point - MOST of [...]

43% of new PC sales in July were Windows Media Center machines

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

WOW!
Yet ‘most’ do not have tuner cards in them.
Hmmmmmmm

Barb agrees with me: Flickr and Yahoo you fucked up, now you’d better rectify

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

Bary Dydabd agress with me. Yahoo please support open identity standards.
Nuf said.

Congrats to Seb and Ross

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

Seb Paquet has joined SocialText.
Great hire.

Combining RSS Enclosures with Media RSS

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

Charles Iliya Krempeaux is suggesting (in Avogato) a scenario which is exactly what we did at ourmedia.org.
We asked the mRSS list if we should have separate feeds or not and what the ‘chiclet’ would be. The answer back - just combine them together. So we did.
We then created our own mRSS [...]

BarCamp UK

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

Hey Suw - I vote for Oct 1-2.
I’ll be at IBC the weekend Ross is there.

UpComing interviews on PaidContent.org

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

I can’t wait to read the upcoming interveiws on PaidContent.org with Ted Cohen and Jim Bankoff.

I love Ted dearly. He was the product manager for MediaBand way back when and he went out omn the road with me - with a broken ankle. What a mensch!
And Jim is someone I just met and [...]