Jobs & Gates: The Musical

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Jobs vs. Gates

Jobs vs. Gates 12/05/2003 11:20 AM
Last night, a BBC broadcast declared Bill Gates the "most powerful computer mogul," but a poll on the BBC website clearly shows the UK viewers believe Steve Jobs is more powerful. Of the nearly 5,000 votes cast, 78 percent support Jobs. While the broadcast stated that "Steve Jobs and Apple create products that are beautiful and elegant to use," a BBC journalist rebutted that "Bill Gates' software is everywhere. It's throughout our daily lives, therefore extending...

Gates and Jobs, Together at Last

Gates and Jobs, Together at Last 07/10/2004 07:25 PM
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have been celebrated in books, magazines, newspapers, even a television movie. Now comes musical theater.

BBC Comments regarding Jobs vs. Gates

BBC Comments regarding Jobs vs. Gates 12/06/2003 03:54 AM

Lots of BBC News viewers think that Apple is more powerful than Microsoft.

UK BBC Viewers Snub Gates For Jobs

UK BBC Viewers Snub Gates For Jobs 12/05/2003 09:01 AM
Last night's BBC broadcast in which TV hack Alvin Hall declared Microsoft's Bill Gates the most powerful computer mogul has generated a storm of protest from Apple CEO Steve Jobs' followers. By Jonny Evans (Macworld UK via MyAppleMenu)

Battle of the Bands: Gates vs. Jobs

Battle of the Bands: Gates vs. Jobs 01/09/2004 09:51 PM
In dueling tradeshow keynotes this week, Apple's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates laid out their competing visions for digital convergence. To Messaging and Collaboration editor Steve Gillmor, Apple now holds the lead position.

Jobs, Gates Halloween masks available
for download

Jobs, Gates Halloween masks available
for download 10/29/2003 01:36 PM
Forbes has posted an online set of downloadable, printable Halloween masks of CEOs and billionaires, who have been "monster-ized." They include FrankenBill (Bill Gates), a Steve Jobs the Pirate, Oprah the Witch, Donald Trump the Wolfman and Larry Ellison the Vampire.

Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs

Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs 07/11/2004 04:16 PM

Gates takes aim at Jobs over portable
video

Gates takes aim at Jobs over portable
video 09/07/2004 11:14 PM
In a BusinessWeek article on how Microsoft plans to steal the spotlight from Apple's iPod with new portable video players, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates throws a couple jabs at Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who earlier this year said that he doesn't think "people have a burning desire to watch video on tiny little screens."...

Bill Gates v. Steve Jobs on BBC2

Bill Gates v. Steve Jobs on BBC2 12/04/2003 03:35 PM
BBCNews is broadcasting a Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs edition of their "The World's Most Powerful" television series. The series "examines some of th...

Open source kills jobs, says Gates

Open source kills jobs, says Gates 07/12/2004 10:41 AM

Jobs on Gates: 'I feel a real warmth
towards him personally'

Jobs on Gates: 'I feel a real warmth
towards him personally' 01/08/2004 07:16 PM
BusinessWeek has posted an article which looks at the relationship of Apple and Microsoft as well as the relationship between the two companies CEOs, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates...

Bill Gates Claims Open Source Kills Jobs

Bill Gates Claims Open Source Kills Jobs 07/12/2004 07:35 PM
In another futile attempt to sway companies away from Open Source software, Gates proclaims that Open Source software costs jobs. Understand that this is a random statement with no facts or figures to back up his claim, Mr. Gates apparently figures that we will simply take his word for it. Well let’s also consider this, Mr. Gates. There are a number of companies that are not only growing, but also turning a profit utilizing their own branded version of Open Source software. Open does not mean free, it means it is open to be reviewed, revised, and then redistributed as the developer see fit within the constraints of the GPL. Competition is a scary thing, huh, Bill? ;o)

"A post about bill gates somehow fools a
whole lot of people into believing bill
gates posted the story, or is at least
reading the comments with rapt
interest."

"A post about bill gates somehow fools a
whole lot of people into believing bill
gates posted the story, or is at least
reading the comments with rapt
interest." 04/16/2004 08:49 AM

Steve Jobs to Preview Mac OS X ''Tiger''
at WWDCSteve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's W

Steve Jobs to Preview Mac OS X ''Tiger''
at WWDCSteve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's W 05/04/2004 03:21 PM
Steve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2004 with Preview of Mac OS X "Tiger"

Vanishing Jobs: Structural change in the
economy means many jobs are never going
to come back. 12/19

Vanishing Jobs: Structural change in the
economy means many jobs are never going
to come back. 12/19 12/20/2003 05:03 AM
It's been a long time since I heard anything positive about American programming jobs .. Those Good Paying Jobs Are Not Coming Back

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Dual Jobs Make Jobs Chron 200's CEO Of
Year

Dual Jobs Make Jobs Chron 200's CEO Of
Year 05/03/2004 12:28 PM
"What [Steve Jobs] has done is a unique accomplishment. Both companies... weren't just successful. They're helping to reshape some industries." By Benny Evangelista and Matthew Yi, San Francisco Chronicle (via MyAppleMenu)

Musical chairs

Musical chairs 04/15/2004 04:58 PM
As online audio hits a commercial crescendo, key companies are jockeying for position. But both RealNetworks and Apple may be left to go it alone as the sound of Microsoft's footsteps grows louder.

Musical Shares

Musical Shares 09/13/2004 10:44 AM
Apple's supremacy in the digital music market will be challenged by a joint launch this month by Microsoft and Napster. By Guy Clapperton, The Guardian (via MyAppleMenu)

Musical interlude

Musical interlude 12/11/2003 10:56 AM

This morning I'm listening to Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones. What an excellent song. Man. It's so weird that Microsoft chose this as the theme song for Windows 95. Wow. I think they chose it because they wanted us to think about the Start Menu. But ohhh you make a grown man cry. If you rough it up startitup startitup don't make a grown man cry. She's my fave-fave-favorite shape. Never never never stop. I take you places you never never seen. Never never never stop. Start me up never stop. Start me up never stop. You make a grown man cry. You make a dead man come.

Mac Vs. Microsoft: The Musical

Mac Vs. Microsoft: The Musical 01/22/2004 02:09 AM
Will other PC manufacturers follow in HP's footsteps? Only time will tell. By Jefferson Graham (USA Today via MyAppleMenu)

The New Musical Functionality...

The New Musical Functionality... 07/17/2004 08:20 AM

Over the last few months webloggia has been full of discussions about the new musical functionality that's starting to emerge around the web. I wasn't immune from this trend - I wrote about MediaUnbound (On MediaUnbound and Recommendations Engines) and linked to the (currently pretty awful) Music Recommendation System for iTunes. Dan Hill has also been talking around the subject, talking about first So cialising mp3-based music listening and then about whether wh ether recommendations scale. And those minxes over at 2lmc linked and commented upon the views of people who are suggesting better ways that iTunes could handle transitions between songs. And of course the new version of iTunes and the iTunes Music Store also now has the user-generated iMix feature - standard web-native functionality which allows people (and now people in the UK, France and Germany rather than just the US) to put mix tapes on the web where other people can rate and/or buy them. And that's just the tip of the iceberg...

Then of course there are the staples of this new musical functionality - from the rapidly-becoming-indispensible audioscrobbler (which uses the flexibility and granularity of net-enabled MP3 playing devices to create charts, lists and recommendations) through to the self-generating radio stations like last.fm and launchcast. And then there's all the little hook-in tools like iChatStatus (publish current listening to iChat's presence display) and Kung-Tunes (publish current listening to the web) that have slowly becoming integrated into my life without my really noticing how they all hook together, communicate, branch off and build upon each other.

All this new funtionality is emerging at the same time (or at least starting to be adopted at the same time) because we're beginning to see a world in which a decent number of early adopters are now starting to do a substantial portion of their listening on digital devices. Obviously the iPod has been the major success story here - the definitive product that has been encouraging people to do the necessary work to transfer their music into more easily manipulatable digital files. But the increasing prevelance of broadband and wireless connectivity is helping too - becauase it's the connection of these appliances to the internet that has created the explosion in interoperable, interconnected devices, applications and people. Clearly, the number of people listening to music through these channels is still tiny compared to the entire music-consuming public. There may be many people using iPods, but there's still an adoption path for moving all your listening into digital jukeboxes and being perpetually connected to the internet (ubiquitous, always-on, non-computer-centric internet in the home is a bit of an obsession of mine at the moment).

But this small proportion looks like it is set to grow. One of the first questions you have to ask yourself in any organic R&D role (which is I think how I'd characterise what I do) is am I a freak or am I an early adopter? You have to have some sense of how much your instincts and excitements are in tune with real people in the world because otherwise you cannot possibly evaluate how those people might respond to the products, concepts or propositions that you think are exciting. In this case, it's becoming fairly clear that people who are listening to digital music and in connected ways are very definitely more like early adopters than they are freaks. They're pointing in roughly the right direction. And there are now enough of them that it's becoming more and more worth people's time ot build little tools or widgets or applications or paradigms or appliances or business models around them. Which in turn appears to be making the whole area still more attractive, creating a feedback loop that is pulling more and more people towards new ways of listening. I don't want to sound too cheesy but I'm afraid I can't help myself - it's pretty clear that we've reached a critical mass and that new musical functionality is about to explode. The only question now is what will be there when the smoke clears?

Over the next few days I'm going to write about some of the core trends that I'm seeing in people's use of digital music, attempting to extrapolate from some current behaviours that we're all observing around us - concentrating on how people wish to interact and use their music. I'm not going to spend too much time on the way some people may wish to legislate against these desires or build around them - because I believe for the most part that any attempt to do so will inevitably fail. Competing models that more adequately fulfil those needs will rise to take over in their place. The model that meets the most needs (while having the least obvious incumberences) will probably win in the really long-term, even if the market, commercial advantages or monopolist practices deform it in the short to medium term.

I'll be talking about four major areas that seem to me to be indicative of the unevenly-distributed musical functionality of the future - (1) portability and access, (2) navigation, (3) self-presentation and social uses of music and (4) data use and privacy. These trends within these areas are - I believe - representative of much larger trends across the consumption of all text-based, audio-based and video-based media and so it might be possible to draw conclusions beyond the consumption of music. I am however not planning to do so. And I make no claims that these areas of enquiry are absolute or canonical, or that there are no other areas that I should also be investigating. All I'll argue is that these four areas are core to the movements that we're currently seeing and that they are each likely to play themselves out in the product designs, interface designs and business models of the near future.

Of course what comes after that remains to be seen...

Tomorrow: The New Musical Functionality, Portability and access...

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Big River, the musical

Big River, the musical 03/23/2005 05:34 PM
Jen took me to see the musical "Big River" last night. It was incredible! Totally awesome! First of all Huck...

Things musical

Things musical 08/02/2004 02:37 AM

http://www.musicmobs.com/ - social network for musical tastes

musicplasma.com - visualization of musicial influences

original music from me and Stuart Sharpe - circa 1982:

Funky Quest - by Me

W hat am I gonna do for fun - by Stuart Sharpe

Musical Snares

Musical Snares 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
I should have known better, because now I'm sitting exactly where Microsoft wants me, facing a significant "switching cost" if I want to adopt iTunes as my music-management software of choice. Sometime soon, I will start the laborious process of re-ripping all my CDs into MP3 files so they will play nice with iTunes. But the more I think about it, the more antsy I get about my decision to back the iTunes camp. By Andrew Leonard (Salon via MyAppleMenu)

The Last Starfighter--The Musical!

The Last Starfighter--The Musical! 09/22/2004 10:58 PM

Musical Baton

Musical Baton 06/05/2005 11:19 PM
Total volume of music files on my computer Yahoo! Music Engine says ?132 Songs, 9 hrs, 25 min, 03 sec, 553MB?. The last CD I bought was That's quite a while ago, I don't remember which one was last exactly. Let's say Kid A - Radiohead. Song playing right now Well, I was watching TV, but if I want to hear music I usually listen to my LAUNCHcast radio station, so I started that. ?

Motorola goes musical

Motorola goes musical 08/04/2004 10:28 PM
The Tribune Aug 5 2004 1:41AM GMT

IT's Musical Habits

IT's Musical Habits 07/20/2004 09:22 AM

[ Evil Dead: The Musical ]

[ Evil Dead: The Musical ] 06/13/2004 07:32 AM
It's ba-a-ack! .. just that .. musical

evildeadthemusical.com
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Musical MIDI Accompaniment 0.5

Musical MIDI Accompaniment 0.5 12/26/2003 06:46 PM
A MIDI track accompaniment generator.

Musical Porch Swing

Musical Porch Swing 06/17/2005 06:11 PM

The Musical Porch Swing is now available from Musical Furnishings, a company that specializes in making everyday furniture that doubles as giant xylophones. The furniture is made from western red cedar and operates in the same manner as a normal xylophone. Each slat is a different note.

The swings begin at $1000 and include the mallets.

Musical Porch Swing [i4u]

Best Musical Score (By a Laptop)

Best Musical Score (By a Laptop) 06/26/2004 01:06 AM
New York Times Jun 26 2004 5:16AM GMT

was done of IT professionals and their
musical tastes

was done of IT professionals and their
musical tastes 07/21/2004 11:14 AM
Developers play air guitar to Megadeth The Register .. Musical preferences of computer geeks .. Nerds Musical Preference Survey

theregister.co.uk/2004/07/20/musical_preference_survey
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Musical MIDI Accompaniment 0.8

Musical MIDI Accompaniment 0.8 06/24/2004 10:46 PM
A MIDI track accompaniment generator.

coming next, Power Law: The Musical

coming next, Power Law: The Musical 01/07/2004 05:34 PM
cam's teaching a class on power laws. most students will sit all the way in the back, with fewer and fewer as you get to the front of the room.

Musical MIDI Accompaniment 0.9

Musical MIDI Accompaniment 0.9 07/05/2004 03:59 PM
A MIDI track accompaniment generator.

GarageBand For The Musical Newbie

GarageBand For The Musical Newbie 04/21/2004 08:43 AM
What, I wondered, could an ordinary musical ignoramus like me actually create using this software? Let's find out. By Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

MusicBrainz: metainformación musical

MusicBrainz: metainformación musical 05/27/2004 07:37 AM

iTunes and musical taste

iTunes and musical taste 11/12/2003 01:02 PM
Wired is running a tongue-in-cheek article about the ability of iTunes users to share their playlists. "Thanks to the ability of Apple's iTunes to share music collections over local networks, it is now possible to judge someone's taste in music -- or lack of it -- in a way that previously required a certain level of intimacy," the article states. It further notes that iTunes users are starting to realize that their playlists can affect the social image they project, and...
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