Microsoft mulls online music move
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Australia's national welfare agency
mulls move from NetWare to OES
Australia's national welfare agency
mulls move from NetWare to OES
04/22/2004 03:48 AMI was reading "The Australian," Australia's national newspaper, last
week (well, the online version at news.com.au). It's a general purpose
paper (like the "New York Times" or "The Washington Post") but one
which devotes more space to IT than any other general news source I've
come across. What struck me this time, though, was a report that
Australia's national welfare organization, Centrelink, was considering
scrapping its 400 NetWare servers in favor of a different server
operating system.
Who's Your Online Music Friend? Not
Microsoft
Who's Your Online Music Friend? Not
Microsoft
01/28/2004 12:27 PMCory sez: Copyright law has never said that the guy who makes the
records gets to tell you what kind of record player you can use. If
Scoble and his employer want to offer a product with "features" that
their customers want, those features should reflect what their
customers want: No Windows user rolled out of bed this morning and
said, "I wish there was a way that I could get Microsoft to deliver me
tools that allow me to do less with the music I buy."
Microsoft to offer online music
Microsoft to offer online music
11/17/2003 08:57 PMUSA Today Nov 17 2003 8:31PM ET
Microsoft launches online music service
Microsoft launches online music service
09/02/2004 06:18 AMThestate.com - Thu Sep 2, 10:07 am GMT
Microsoft online music store this week?
Microsoft online music store this week?
08/23/2004 12:38 PMAccording to a report by the San Jose Mercury News, Microsoft plans to
announce its long-anticipated online music store this week...
Microsoft plans MSN online music service
Microsoft plans MSN online music service
11/17/2003 02:04 AMMicrosoft plans to introduce a music download service next year that
will compete with iTunes, Napster and others, Monday's Wall Street
Journal reported...
Microsoft launches online music store
Microsoft launches online music store
09/02/2004 08:15 AMeircom net Sep 2 2004 12:12PM GMT
Microsoft to join the online music fray
Microsoft to join the online music fray
11/17/2003 01:56 PMMicrosoft has announced plans to begin offering a music download store
a la iTMS.
Online Music Buyers May Be Saved By...
Microsoft?
Online Music Buyers May Be Saved By...
Microsoft?
09/08/2004 04:52 AMMicrosoft's MSN Music store has been running for a week and it is
already available in parts of Europe, Australia, Korea and even
Brazil. That's in addition to the United States, of course. I don't
know if Singapore is on the list yet but the fact that Microsoft is
going to so many places so soon after the launch means it will get
here sooner rather than later, right? By Carl Skadian, Straits Times
(via MyAppleMenu)
Microsoft to Enter Online Music Market
Microsoft to Enter Online Music Market
11/17/2003 08:57 PMSiliconValley.com Nov 17 2003 8:36PM ET
Microsoft to Launch Online Music Store
Microsoft to Launch Online Music Store
08/31/2004 11:55 AMMicrosoft To Enter Online Music Battle
Microsoft To Enter Online Music Battle
07/30/2004 02:05 PMMicrosoft is poised to launch its long-awaited online music store late
next month. People familiar with Microsoft's music site said it would
offer an "a la carte" service from which consumers could buy and
download digital audio tracks. By Scott Morrison, Financial Times (via
MyAppleMenu)
Microsoft takes aim at Apple's online
music
Microsoft takes aim at Apple's online
music
09/01/2004 06:34 AMMcall.com - Wed Sep 1, 09:59 am GMT
Microsoft to enter online music market
Microsoft to enter online music market
11/17/2003 08:57 PMAP via Seattle Post Intelligencer Nov 17 2003 8:36PM ET
Microsoft launching online music store
Microsoft launching online music store
09/02/2004 06:18 AMFox43tv.com - Thu Sep 2, 06:32 am GMT
Sony Unveils Music Service, Mulls 'iPod
Killer'
Sony Unveils Music Service, Mulls 'iPod
Killer'
05/05/2004 01:29 AMSony became the latest entrant into the increasingly crowded online
music market. By Sue Zeidler, Reuters (via MyAppleMenu)
Microsoft to offer online music service
in 2004
Microsoft to offer online music service
in 2004
11/17/2003 10:05 PMUSA Today Nov 17 2003 9:29PM ET
Microsoft launches test online music
store
Microsoft launches test online music
store
09/02/2004 06:18 AMStraitstimes.asia1.com.sg - Thu Sep 2, 09:05 am GMT
Microsoft gets tuned up to launch online
music store
Microsoft gets tuned up to launch online
music store
08/31/2004 02:32 AMTaipei Times Online Aug 31 2004 6:52AM GMT
Microsoft Challenges Rivals With New
Online Music Service
Microsoft Challenges Rivals With New
Online Music Service
09/01/2004 10:32 PMMicrosoft started selling music tracks on its MSN online service,
taking on Apple Computer and a host of others in the fast-growing
market for digital music.
Microsoft Software Drives New Online
Music Offerings
Microsoft Software Drives New Online
Music Offerings
07/18/2004 05:01 PMMicrosoft to challenge Apple's online
music store
Microsoft to challenge Apple's online
music store
08/31/2004 06:31 AMPasadenastarnews.com - Tue Aug 31, 08:17 am GMT
Microsoft Launches Online Music Store
(Reuters)
Microsoft Launches Online Music Store
(Reuters)
09/01/2004 08:45 PMReuters - Microsoft Corp. launched a new online
store for music downloads on Wednesday, taking direct aim at
Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iTunes music service.
Sony Unveils Music Service, Mulls 'iPod
Killer' (Reuters)
Sony Unveils Music Service, Mulls 'iPod
Killer' (Reuters)
05/04/2004 07:54 PMReuters - Sony Corp., which pioneered the
market for portable music with its Walkman player 25 years ago,
on Tuesday became the latest entrant into the increasingly
crowded online music market.
Rivals say Microsoft online music store
falls short
Rivals say Microsoft online music store
falls short
09/02/2004 07:36 PMosOpinion Sep 3 2004 0:12AM GMT
Microsoft Software Drives New Online
Music Offerings (Reuters)
Microsoft Software Drives New Online
Music Offerings (Reuters)
07/16/2004 11:40 AMReuters - Hoping to put a dent in the
popularity of Apple Computer Inc.'s music download service,
online music subscription providers are readying services that
allow users to shift rented songs to portable digital music
players.
Microsoft launches test version of
online music store
Microsoft launches test version of
online music store
09/01/2004 06:49 PMSiliconValley.com Sep 1 2004 10:43PM GMT
Microsoft agrees to modify software for
buying music online
Microsoft agrees to modify software for
buying music online
01/16/2004 11:03 AMSiliconValley.com Jan 15 2004 9:19PM GMT
Karnataka mulls online lottery ban
Karnataka mulls online lottery ban
07/02/2004 09:15 PMTelegraphindia.com - Fri Jul 2, 10:25 am GMT
Microsoft Launches Test Version Of
Online Music Store (TechWeb)
Microsoft Launches Test Version Of
Online Music Store (TechWeb)
09/03/2004 02:42 AMTechWeb - The catalog will start with about 500,000 songs, and they'll
be playable on more than 70 handheld devices that use the Windows
Media format.
Deutsche Telekom mulls reintegrating
T-Online (AFP)
Deutsche Telekom mulls reintegrating
T-Online (AFP)
09/07/2004 02:58 AMAFP - Deutsche Telekom, the German telecommunications giant, indicated
for the first time that it is considering reintegrating its publicly
listed Internet arm, T-Online.
Move Over Online Marketplaces And
Auction Sites: You’re Getting A Run For
Your Money With The i-women.net Online
Shopping Network
Move Over Online Marketplaces And
Auction Sites: You’re Getting A Run For
Your Money With The i-women.net Online
Shopping Network
03/17/2005 03:02 AMSay goodbye to the high costs of price-per-click advertising and
marketplace listing fees for women in ecommerce. The long awaited and
much anticipated alternative has finally arrived at i-women.net.
[PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]
Govt mulls compulsory online form
filling
Govt mulls compulsory online form
filling
02/16/2004 10:31 AMHow do we save £15bn?
DuPont to sell unit to Koch; Lowe's
profit up; Microsoft to offer online
music service in 2004
DuPont to sell unit to Koch; Lowe's
profit up; Microsoft to offer online
music service in 2004
11/17/2003 08:57 PMForbes Nov 17 2003 8:25PM ET
Tech News: satellite Internet for rural
users, Microsoft has a new online music
store, 150 cybercriminals arre
Tech News: satellite Internet for rural
users, Microsoft has a new online music
store, 150 cybercriminals arre
09/01/2004 12:27 AMAbout Sep 1 2004 4:01AM GMT
Microsoft mulls next XP revision
Microsoft mulls next XP revision
08/27/2004 02:05 PMNow that SP2 has been released, Microsoft is considering what other
changes are needed to the operating system. With a long-awaited
security update to Windows XP now complete, Microsoft is preparing a
holiday season push for the three-year-old operating system -- and is
set to revisit ambitious plans for the next major revision, ZDNet UK
sister site News.com has learned.
Music Sharers Move Around
Music Sharers Move Around
03/24/2005 04:47 PMHere's yet another study that it looks like the press is
misinterpreting to turn a small story into a bigger story. CNET is
claiming that people who share files online are moving away from
online services
to trading via
their iPods instead. That's a stretch. Beyond the technical
difficulty involved in "trading via your iPod," this claim is based on
simply the directional trends. The study claims that fewer people are
sharing music online, but more are using other means, such as trading
via an iPod. However, if you look at the absolute numbers, they're
likely to show that such "iPod trading" is a tiny fraction of those
who share online. Furthermore, you have to wonder if there's a bias
from those surveyed -- since they now know about all the lawsuits,
they may be less likely to admit they share music online. About the
only thing this study really shows is that people will continue to
look for a variety places to get the music they like, and they aren't
limited to just one. This means that for every effort the recording
industry makes to shut down file sharing offerings, people will just
move on to something else.
Microsoft Mulls Self-Managing Technology
Microsoft Mulls Self-Managing Technology
03/15/2003 10:47 AMGoogle mulls merger with Microsoft
Google mulls merger with Microsoft
10/31/2003 03:02 PMAsian Age Oct 31 2003 1:20PM ET
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NewsIsFree Makes More News In Big Maps
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08/03/2004 11:36 PM NewsIsFree has teamed up with the Hive Group to present news in
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Bangkok Telco Adds Wi-Fi
Bangkok Telco Adds Wi-Fi
01/18/2004 07:06 PMFixed-line provider TOT will open its TNET Wi-Fi service: TOT is a
fixed-line provider that's rolling out more advanced features for land
lines (including SMS and caller ID), but it's also trying out Wi-Fi at
100 baht per hour or about US$2.50. The first location is at a cafe
that will also have 12 computers available; future locations include
other branches of this cafe and supermarkets. Pricing deregulation
appears to be driving the landline services into more competition
against increasingly inexpensive package deals from the cellular
operators, according to this article's details....
Bangkok set to elect new governor
Bangkok set to elect new governor
08/29/2004 01:45 AMPollution and overcrowding top the agenda as the Thai capital,
Bangkok, votes for a new governor.
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08/04/2004 03:30 PMFire rages through Bangkok slum
Fire rages through Bangkok slum
04/23/2004 04:05 AMA massive fire engulfs a poor area of the Thai capital, forcing
residents to flee with their belongings.
Bangkok Official: Fans Fit for Funerals
(AP)
Bangkok Official: Fans Fit for Funerals
(AP)
07/22/2004 08:23 PMAP - When it comes to paying last respects, an electric fan is better
than a customary flower wreath, an official in Bangkok said Thursday.
Thai Police Warn of Piranhas in Bangkok
(AP)
Thai Police Warn of Piranhas in Bangkok
(AP)
05/30/2004 02:52 PMAP - Thai police have issued a warning, but it seemed fishy:
flesh-eating piranhas may be lurking in the capital's waterways.
US$50-Million orders tipped for Bangkok
Show
US$50-Million orders tipped for Bangkok
Show
05/31/2004 02:11 PMLarge numbers of visitors from around the world are converging on
Bangkok, Thailand, to attend INTERMACH 2004 this month - and its theme
this year is "Cross Border Collaboration". [PRWEB May 10, 2004]
Electoral song and dance too hot for
Bangkok (Reuters)
Electoral song and dance too hot for
Bangkok (Reuters)
08/27/2004 01:59 PMReuters - A wannabe Bangkok governor has been kicked out of the city
hall
race because her troupe of scantily clad female supporters broke
election rules by being
too raunchy.
Powell and Governor of Florida Arrive in
Bangkok
Powell and Governor of Florida Arrive in
Bangkok
01/03/2005 02:44 PMThe four-day trip through the region is designed to assure nations
devastated by the tsunami of the United States' support.
Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of
American Empire plus War And Conflict In
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era
Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of
American Empire plus War And Conflict In
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era
03/13/2003 10:25 AM Chalmers
Johnson is an provocative proponent of the
American Empire
theory, indeed. Here are excerpts from his
Blow Back: The Cost
And Consequences of American EmpireI heard Johnson
interviewed on Episode II,
War And Conflict In The Post-Cold War,
Post-9/11 Era of
The Whole Wide World
The Cold War and its central conflict - the physical and
ideological battles between the United States, the Soviet Union and
their proxy states - imposed a certain logic and consistency on the
world. Take that away and add the bloody wars in the Balkans, Africa
and the Middle East in the ‘90s as well as the terror attacks and
warnings of more recent times and you get a very confused picture of a
world at war. Is this breaking storm in Iraq about oil, democracy,
freedom, empire, culture, water, diamonds, modernizing Islam or nation
building in the Middle East? Some, one or all of these
things?It was an excellent program and well worth your
listen, either by RA now or mp3 later.
(From listening to the
radio) Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices
Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices
04/09/2005 05:19 AMDMeurope.com Apr 9 2005 9:28AM GMT
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post, you acknowledge that you
understand and agree not to complain
about the content of this post or the
character of its author and his
intellect.
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understand and agree not to complain
about the content of this post or the
character of its author and his
intellect.
09/01/2004 11:08 PM
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"this post"
02/10/2004 09:26 PMPost It!
Post It!
08/28/2004 04:25 AMSitting up late, chatting with Sifry about his DNC stories and
conventions and how to cover them and wondering if the real RNC story
might be
outside
the building, and reading the latest on war videography from a
moonlight
ing Salam Pax. My personal bet is that New York will be noisy but
nonviolent, both the demonstrators and the cops have too much to lose
by being scary on TV. Still, I bet there’s some first-rate theater
in the streets. So, here’s an idea. Go to Manhattan. Get yourself
a high-end PowerBook laptop with a bunch of batteries and a FireWire
and USB ports and enough WiFi service provider accounts that you’re
always online... then, print up a sandwich board that says
Your
Pictures And Movies... On The Web Now! and walk around, and then,
if something happens, it won’t be film at eleven, it’ll be right
now.
Can't add? Can't post.
Can't add? Can't post.
12/17/2004 06:28 PM
I've been taking a few pokes at attempting to fend off some of the
comment spam on my blog.
The first is obviously to turn off comments altogether, but I very
much enjoy the conversation some of my posts garner and find making
the channel one-way unacceptable.
The second is to go through occasionally and clean things up. I must
say that this option is getting rather tiresome rather quickly.
I know there are typekeys, logins, email confirmations, image
recognition, and other such methods, but I'm not overly fond of any of
them.
So, here I am noodling.
And I couldn't help coming back to something I've always been fond of:
maths. What if I were to raise the barrier to posting just ever so
slightly to ward off at least the dumber of the bots using a simple
addition problem? If you you're on the individual page for this post
or click the permalink (that's the
# if you're reading
this on my site proper), you'll notice I've added a simple
x + y
= to the bottom of my writeback form. The numbers are chosen at
random between 0 and 9 and "hidden" in variables x and y. Get the
addition problem wrong, and your post is rejected. The logic (such as
it is) is handled by a minor adjustment to my
Blosxom
writeback plugin.
I know this probably isn't some new idea (people have been talking
about this with respect to sending email, adding a calculation tax to
the sender's client and computer). But I put it out there as a first
prod and look forward to any feedback you might have.
Of course there are a couple of known issues right off the bat:
- This doesn't extend to trackbacks and thus I'm still wide open to
trackback spam. The only solution, should something useful be found
for comments, would be to build this into a trackback spec, but I
leave this as an exercise for further down the road.
- If this were to be baked into every Blosxom site or, indeed, every
blog, spammers would soon figure it out (it's not hard and they're not
as stupid as you'd hope they'd be), and the bots would learn a little
math. A couple of thoughts popped into my head around this:
- Use hashed variable names for x and y, the hash generated based
upon a site-/blog-specific key and some other bit of algorithmic
sugar, limited time use, and so forth.
- Employ a one-off to embed the two numbers in your page, post, or
URL. If in the post itself, call it out somehow that's obvious to
human readers.
But, as I said, this was more a pop than a proper noodle.
Again, this might have been thought of before, might simply be a
stupid idea, or might be sheer brilliance ;-) ... we shall see.
First Post!
First Post!
12/29/2003 11:55 PM"We’re just getting started here and we’ve got a few
things happening:
What the heck is this?
WiFiCharlottetown.org (this website) is all setup and should provide a
central resource for WiFiCharlottetown info and discussion.
Hardware is on the way! We have ordered a few Sputnik..." (100 words -
posted by steven) 7 replies
"the post"
"the post"
05/12/2004 04:03 AMPost #4,000
Post #4,000
06/22/2005 01:56 AMWell, here we are at #4,000. This puts us just 1,000 posts away
from our stated goal of 5,000. Along with the 4,000 posts, we have
6,050 comments as of this writing, and that's very cool. We
appreciate all the interaction everyone has with the site.
Interestingly, we hit 2,500 posts exactly one year
ago today. That means our daily post count is about 4.1 (almost 6
without weekends). This means we'll hit 5,000 posts early next
spring, which is always what I figured. We'll have some contest or
something when that happens and hopefully give some stuff away.
So as long as we're celebrating a blog posting, here's a list of
some of the best and more interesting posts of the last 4,000:
Most Commented Posts
Both posts have had their comments shut down since. The Bill Gates
post was the first post I ever did this on — in fact, I had to
go look up the exact template tags to do it.
When this site was deanebarker.net, there was actually a post about
politics that got over 300 comments. (Although that's cool, about
every post at Rosie O'Donnell's
site gets over 300 comments — this one got
almost 2,000 comments, in fact. You see, that's the trick to getting
a lot of comments — become a famous lesbian.)
Longest Posts
- The Josh Clark interview, at over 5,000 words, is the longest. But
that doesn't really count, since I didn't write most of it.
- This article on Web usability that I wrote back in 2000 (and
published in 2003) is the next longest (read it with a grain of salt,
remembering it was written five years ago, which is 100 years ago in
Net time).
- Third place is the The Building of Basecamp Review.
Shortest Posts
Posts With the Most Prominent Links
Any one of those links mentioned is worth 5,000 page views,
easily.
My Favorite Posts
Most Glaring Example That The World Is Ending
Some of the comments on this post, easily. I mean, come on people — do I have to
spoon feed the sarcasm?
The Post Most Likely To Get Me Sued
I've been watching the comments on the Geek Squad
post pretty carefully. Nothing has gotten out of hand, and there's
a lot of good discussion going on, so I'm keeping my hands off for
now. However, it still makes me a little nervous.
Only Post I've Ever Been Threatened About
There were some comments on this post
about Convea that I was asked to take down under threat of "legal
action." I'm still bitter about it, but I wussed out and folded.
(Some long-time readers will remember that this site came down for
six weeks in early 2003 when I was threatened over another post, but
it was a completely different site back then, so that doesn't really
count. And I deserved that one.)
Posts That Bummed Me Out The Most
Two of them, actually — both pretty recent.
- The comments of th
is one about the new design
- The comments on thi
s one that accused me of tricking people into clicking on AdSense
links.
Both sucked, but they are what they are. People have every right
to express their opinions.
Most Pissed Off I've Been While Writing A Post
This one, about the comment spammer. That's also the
closest we've come to getting taken offline.
Post Containing the Most Hyperlinks
This one. There's 40 of them in here. Markdown
rules.
So, what's next? Some ideas for the future:
Ask Gadgetopia
I'd like to provide a place for readers to ask questions of the
community that's built-up around this site. Not specific "debug my
code" questions, but general questions about the best way to do
something. There's a lot of knowledge out there I know some people
would like to tap.
Reader Survey
We did a survey a long time ago. I'd like to do another one to find
out who's reading. Total vanity, but still.
Let's Give Stuff Away...
I'm getting an increasing number of people offering me review copies
of stuff (software, games, books...) in exchange for some publicity.
I've started asking for two copies: one for me to review, and one for
me to give away to someone. However, I can't figure out a good way to
give the stuff away.
Let's Go Somewhere...
I'd like to send Dave or Rob to MacWorld, or me or Joe on this PHP cruise. I'd need
to know, however, that we can provide some unique value. A lot of
sites send people to these things — can we provide something
different enough to make it worthwhile?
So, that's it. I'm sure I'll forget about post #4,500, so I'll see
you number 5,000. I'll be here — I hope you will too.
First XML-RPC Post
First XML-RPC Post
12/01/2002 11:58 AMThis is my first post using my XML-RPC server. I hope it works because
if it does it'll be quite good for expansion.
This post has been ignored
This post has been ignored
06/05/2005 11:10 PMWith her new Aggregator 2.0, Jeneane is able to ignore up to 1,500
blog posts an hour......
the one where i post about E3
the one where i post about E3
06/05/2005 10:54 PMThat sinus thing I had last week is trying very hard to move into my
chest. Im exhausted after being...
I first post, therefore I am
I first post, therefore I am
01/16/2004 11:05 AMePhilosopher. Slashdot got drunk with Sartre, and this is what
happened. I have a cold. I am not happy today....
"very concise post"
"very concise post"
08/09/2004 02:41 AMUsenet post
Usenet post
12/08/2003 09:29 PMAccording to a
Usenet post,
Octigabay is using Infiniband
as their cluster interconnect with a custom HCA that attaches directly
to the HyperTransport port on the Opteron. This allows them to get
under 2us MPI latency when
sto
ck IB HCAs get 6us.
Microsoft mulls online music move