Playing the web's music on Webjay

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Now playing: M stands for Microsoft
music

Now playing: M stands for Microsoft
music 09/02/2004 04:18 AM
USA Today Sep 2 2004 8:39AM GMT

Real is playing for keeps in music price
war (USATODAY.com)

Real is playing for keeps in music price
war (USATODAY.com) 08/17/2004 09:17 AM
USATODAY.com - RealNetworks today is slashing the price of a digital download to 49 cents a song from 99 cents - a bold move in the war over digital music.

Clear Channel Playing Dirty with Bands
selling Music

Clear Channel Playing Dirty with Bands
selling Music 05/25/2004 07:05 AM

Let's say you and your buddies don't know how to play musical instruments and yet you decide to form a band. You open your garage door and play like there is no tomorrow. The police come and actually shut you down because it was so bad that all your neighbors have complained. Now imagine you have recorded that music and offer it immediately for-sale to anyone that wants to purchase a
copy of your horrid noise. Several days later you get a notice from Clear Channel saying you have to purchase a license in order to legally sell that music immediately after each show.

Is this not the most ridiculous things you have ever heard. Well it seems Clear Channel is squashing popular bands that want to sell immediate recordings of concerts they have just performed. If your willing to buy a license to do so then you are good to go. The audacity of doing this is shocking. [Techdirt]

WebJay redux

WebJay redux 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
Free music that streams to your media player.

Free music that streams to your media player

Posted Apr 9, 2004, 7:46 AM ET by Alberto Escarlate

From Wired News: Webjay, is a website in which users build their own playlists of free music — like a mix tape — and share them with friends. It doesn’t store the files, but it pulls together the URLs for each track and puts them in a playlist format.

Webjay regular Brett Singer, a New York theater producer and computer consultant, builds playlists in his spare time. He’s created more than 50 collections with titles like Song-a-Day, a list made up of songs he has chosen each day for the past two months. On March 28, he had a seaweed treatment, so he chose a song by the group Seaweed Soup. He picked a song called “Party Party” on the occasion of his kid’s birthday party.

There isn’t only music playlists. You can find Lawrence Lessig’s “Free Culture” read aloud by miscellaneous people: Lessig/Free Culture audiobook project.[The Digital Music Weblog]

Congrats to Lucas Gonze. The meme spreads.

Lucas Gonze and Webjay in the NY Times!

Lucas Gonze and Webjay in the NY Times! 07/08/2004 12:27 AM

Congrats Lucas.....

Here it is.....

Multimedia Scrapbooks, to Create and Share
By NEIL McMANUS

HANDFUL of Web users are programming their own virtual TV newscasts and eclectic collections of video clips using a free media-sharing tool called Webjay (www.webjay.org). The site makes it easy to build, share and watch playlists of audio and video links culled from around the Internet.

Webjay, developed by Lucas Gonze, a programmer who lives in Brooklyn, has already built a following among music lovers. They have used it to assemble sets of legally available music links from all over the Web, then play the whole list with one click, using Windows Media Player, RealOne, Winamp or QuickTime. Now some people are creating video shows using Webjay and streaming Web video.

Nobody is doing this with more panache than Brett Singer, a New York theater publicist. Mr. Singer's shows include a music video show, collections of campaign videos and a variety program called Webjay TV.

A collage of news, music, comedy and found video, Webjay TV includes video clips like Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" interviewing Howard Dean, a lesson on how to play Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on guitar and George Lucas discussing the "Star Wars" character Jar Jar Binks.

"For me, Webjay has taken the place of little online games like minigolf or solitaire," said Mr. Singer, who started making playlists as a hobby, using home videos of his young son. "Webjay has become more of an obsession. It's a way for me to be creative with minimal effort."

Mr. Singer said he took particular pleasure in making mashups, playlists that mix videos, photos and music in a multimedia scramble. In a playlist called The Politics of Dancing, a BBC News video about Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Iraq prison abuse scandal is accompanied by the song "We Will Rock You" by Queen.

In another playlist, Mr. Singer somewhat more artfully sets to music a shot from a live traffic cam at the Cross Bronx Expressway; a hypnotic tune called "Cars for Christ" from a band of the same name plays as commuters find their way home.

Mr. Singer also produces a daily news program on Webjay that uses videos from a variety of sources. Recently, the news program stitched together a BBC News tribute to Ray Charles, a Gallup Poll report on how much Americans remember about D-Day, and highlights from the N.B.A. finals, playing alongside Kobe Bryant's mug shot.

Webjay's creator, Mr. Gonze, is among those who think technologies like his may someday stir up the conventional television industry. Mr. Gonze, who spends his summers in Canada without a TV, said that recently, as an alternative to network news, he had watched Mr. Singer's Webjay compilation. "It was embryonic and crude, but also mind-blowing," he said.

Andrew Nachison, director of the Media Center at the American Press Institute, said that Webjay video playlists were "a fabulous example of remix society."

"It's an outgrowth of hip-hop and DJ culture," he added. "People aren't just remixing music, they're remixing the news."

Webjay news mixes can be politically charged. "Brett's a New Yorker," Mr. Gonze said, referring to Mr. Singer. "He's a liberal. He's into show business. He's definitely not playing to the mainstream. NBC has to appeal to the great swath of viewers across America. Brett doesn't."

Webjay may eventually face a backlash from record labels and TV networks, but Mr. Gonze maintains that the site is legal because it assembles the Web addresses of media files, but never stores or transmits the actual files themselves.

Michael R. Graham, an intellectual property attorney and a partner with the law firm Marshall, Gerstein & Borun in Chicago, said that although Webjay itself "appears to be legal," users should be careful.

"There are a gazillion legal questions," he said. "It's a classic example of how technology has leapt over our ability to trace rights and what might be infringed, and in what ways."

If anyone who holds the rights to an audio or video clip objects to Webjay carrying a link to it, the site offers a tool, called Tattlematic, for removing links. "I believe in peace through politeness," Mr. Gonze said. "If somebody doesn't want us to link to their stuff, we won't link to their stuff. They don't have to sue. They just have to ask."

Mr. Nachison said television news organizations could benefit from technologies like Webjay, because they are making news video easier to find on the Web.

"The audience for television news on the major networks has been declining for years," he said. "These mashups are bringing the news to a new audience. That's not just a good thing for the media business. That's a good thing for society."

Steve O'Brien, executive publisher of the Gallup Poll, said he did not mind that Gallup's videos are being used in Webjay's news reports, as long as Webjay doesn't charge subscription fees for the videos or sell advertising on the site.

He said he would prefer that people visit Gallup's own site (gallup.com) to watch the videos. "But at least Webjay is meeting one of our goals, which is getting our information in front of people," he said.

He added that Webjay may soon provide a benefit for Gallup.

"We're thinking about putting ads in our videos," he says. "Our advertisers will be happy to get the extra viewers."

[via pho list - Jim Coffman]

TAG and the Web's Architecture

TAG and the Web's Architecture 09/04/2002 07:03 PM
Kendall Clark reviews the first public draft of the W3C Technical Architecture Group's publication "Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web", intended to be a definitive statement of how the Web should work.

The future in the web's past

The future in the web's past 06/24/2004 01:30 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Tue Jun 22, 12:35 pm GMT

New honour for the web's inventor

New honour for the web's inventor 04/15/2004 05:06 AM
The web's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, wins a prestigious prize which comes with an award of one million euros.

The Web's #1 Axe In My Head Page

The Web's #1 Axe In My Head Page 06/15/2004 06:00 PM
"Oh my god! There's an axe in my head"

New honour for web's inventor

New honour for web's inventor 07/17/2004 01:19 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Fri Jul 16, 01:58 pm GMT

Google Becomes Web's Gatekeeper

Google Becomes Web's Gatekeeper 02/26/2003 12:28 PM
Joy Holman sells provocative leather clothing on the Web. She wants what nearly everyone doing business online wants: more exposure on Google. ...

Cash prize for the web's inventor

Cash prize for the web's inventor 04/16/2004 07:40 AM
BBC Apr 16 2004 12:30PM GMT

Voting opens for web's villains

Voting opens for web's villains 09/09/2004 09:21 AM
Web users can vote for the best and worst of the net in the Future UK Internet awards.

Web's most famous hooker kills bl0g

Web's most famous hooker kills bl0g 09/17/2004 03:46 PM
Book deal and Johns beckon

" BBC NEWS | Technology | Web's inventor
gets a knighthood "

" BBC NEWS | Technology | Web's inventor
gets a knighthood " 12/31/2003 09:35 AM

New Search Engine Claims to be Web's
Biggest

New Search Engine Claims to be Web's
Biggest 02/05/2005 09:49 PM
The Web’s Biggest claims to search more websites than any other search engine. [PRWEB Feb 4, 2005]

Web's Biggest Wiki Search Engine

Web's Biggest Wiki Search Engine 02/01/2005 09:39 PM
This is pretty interesting.  Web's Biggest not only claims to be the biggest search engine, but the biggest wiki.  It leverages existing search engines and scrapes the whois database.  The spider captures summaries, which is all the engine searches, which...

Neznanski: 'Malfunction' rips top off
Web's most-searched topics

Neznanski: 'Malfunction' rips top off
Web's most-searched topics 02/10/2004 02:36 AM
A quick Internet search of "Janet Jackson" on Google news brings up 7,490 results, way too much to justify my writing any sort of praise or admonishment of ...

Traffic tools track Web's prime time

Traffic tools track Web's prime time 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
CNET Mar 10 2003 4:16PM ET

EdgeTech Acquires "Web's Biggest" Search
Engine

EdgeTech Acquires "Web's Biggest" Search
Engine 06/05/2005 11:14 PM
EdgeTech Services Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Internet search engine Web's Biggest Inc. [PRWEB Jun 1, 2005]

PHP Overtakes ASP as Web's #1
Server-side Script Language

PHP Overtakes ASP as Web's #1
Server-side Script Language 06/09/2002 12:02 PM
June 5th, 2002 - Zend Technologies Ltd., the designers of PHP 4 and the Zend Engine, today announced that as of April 2002, PHP, the open-source software phenomenon, has surpassed Microsoft’s ASP as the most popular server-side Web scripting technology on the Internet.

According to a Netcraft survey published in April 2002, PHP is now being used by over 24% of the sites on the Internet. Of the 37.6 million web sites reported worldwide (http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/index-200204.html), PHP is running on over 9 million sites and continues to grow at an explosive rate. Over the past two years PHP has averaged a 6.5% monthly growth rate.

"tri" From the netcraft URL, I don't see any proof of this. Where did Zend get their figures? Can anyone clarify? - John

"zeldman.abd"

Wiki-Based Search Engine Claims To Be
Web's Biggest

Wiki-Based Search Engine Claims To Be
Web's Biggest 02/01/2005 08:51 PM
Web's Biggest [http://www.websbiggest.com] ranks search results using website traffic data. Most search engines rank search results by the number of hyperlinks pointing to a website. The company says Website traffic is a more accurate indication of how popular a website is than hyperlinks which tend to favor academic and reference sites over truly popular ones

Surfing The Web's Great Sites Just Got
Easier With Webbieworld's Trek

Surfing The Web's Great Sites Just Got
Easier With Webbieworld's Trek 06/09/2004 02:36 AM
Webbieworld, one of the oldest and most respected Internet directories, announces a new feature that allows visitors to trek through the latest and greatest websites with a simple click of a button. "Webbieworld Trek" features an intelligent system that accompanies people on a journey through sites and can be customized to show only sites that match the visitor's interests. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004]

Web's First Interfaith Streaming Media
Site Launched at FaithStreams.com

Web's First Interfaith Streaming Media
Site Launched at FaithStreams.com 06/24/2005 07:27 PM
Faith and Values Media, the nation's largest coalition of Jewish and Christian faith groups dedicated to media production and distribution, today announced the launch of FaithStreams.com, the first Web-based interfaith service to incorporate streaming video and video-on-demand (VOD). In addition to video, the new site will also include all content from the award-winning Faith and Values Media Web site at faithandvalues.com

PR: PHP Overtakes Microsoft's ASP as
Web's #1 Server-side Scripting Language

PR: PHP Overtakes Microsoft's ASP as
Web's #1 Server-side Scripting Language 06/05/2002 10:01 AM
Enterprises Embrace Open-Source Technology for Dynamic Web Sites, As Major Business Benefits Drive PHP’s Explosive Growth

Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Windows
Server 2003 Speed Love Connections For
the Web's Premier Dating Site

Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Windows
Server 2003 Speed Love Connections For
the Web's Premier Dating Site 02/12/2004 06:11 PM
In Internet time, you really can hurry love. And thanks to Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET 2003 and Windows Server™ 2003, millions of Match.com users will see just how fast cupid's virtual arrow can travel this Valentine's Day.

Playing for keeps on the Net

Playing for keeps on the Net 06/04/2004 12:57 AM

Playing PC on your TV

Playing PC on your TV 04/10/2004 11:22 AM
National Post Apr 10 2004 3:30PM GMT

What's playing now...

What's playing now... 07/28/2004 01:27 PM
Using httpQ with winamp, I now post the current track I'm listening to over on the side bar. It's not...

They're Not Playing Around

They're Not Playing Around 12/22/2004 01:08 AM
We review the cutthroat business of toys: Does Toys "R" Us stand a chance against industry behemoth Wal-Mart this holiday season?

Playing God just got a little more fun

Playing God just got a little more fun 09/17/2004 08:21 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Sep 17 2004 12:53PM GMT

Playing for keeps

Playing for keeps 12/09/2003 08:25 AM
CNET Dec 9 2003 7:45AM ET

Playing with MarsEdit

Playing with MarsEdit 02/05/2005 09:11 PM
O’Reilly: Giles Turnbull: Playing with MarsEdit: “I’ve been involved in the launch of a new web project during the last couple of weeks. Since it relied on heavy use of the Movable Type online publishing system, I thought it would be worth trying out one of the desktop weblogging applications that are floating around these days.”

Playing With Time...

Playing With Time... 05/15/2004 02:23 PM
Playing With Time uses time lapse photography and computer animation to show events that normally happen too fast or too slow for humans to perceive. (via Neat Net Tricks newsletter)

Playing with food

Playing with food 04/18/2005 11:49 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 19 2005 4:03AM GMT

Now you're playing with power.

Now you're playing with power. 03/19/2005 02:56 AM
They're all here. Or most of them. This will make you dust off your NES/Genesis/Turbo GraphX-16... but this time with a pixel-perfect map of every level of your most beloved games. From Amiga to Xbox. Castlevania, Zelda, and Megaman among hundreds of others and links to even more in-depth sites. Warning - some of these maps are EXTREMELY large, like 13000x5000 large. NSFCW (Not safe for child within)

Playing With Time

Playing With Time 05/16/2004 07:45 AM
Films of things slowed down or sped up .. A collection of time-lapse movies .. Kijk dan naar deze filmpjes .. "Playing With Time .. im zeitraffer .. gallery .. TIME .. wow

playingwithtime.org
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Playing With Your Head

Playing With Your Head 06/11/2004 03:43 AM
While it's been suggested before, a bunch of researchers at Washington University have actually developed way to control a video game using brainwaves measured by invasively placing electrodes on a human brain. (This is not to be confused with the EEG electrodes that are placed non-invasively on top of the head.) Four adult epilepsy patients were being studied with these brain implants, and they could fairly accurately control virtual movements just by thinking. Amazingly, this method only takes about an hour to learn how to move things, compared to months of training when they use the method that doesn't involve opening up the skull. While this is certainly a breakthrough for patients with disabilities, far in the future this could be a commonplace human-computer interface.

Playing favorites?

Playing favorites? 07/28/2004 11:41 AM
USA Today Jul 28 2004 3:47PM GMT
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