Charts.fm – fun with mashups…

few weeks ago I’ve been building this charts-based mashup together with a friend of mine.  since we now even managed to get some decent frontend-graphics from blackjune, I tought I might as well pitch it here before christmas…  

Charts.fm is based on playlists & user-votings of more than 2600 radio-stations (mostly US, although there’s [...]

roundup for 2007-03-09 … Office / Freebase / iConcertCal / RatePoint / OpenID

when will Microsoft release a free, ad-supported online version of their office-suite? will it be called Office Live? and will it happen before Google’s lightweight office-apps finally include a featureset that will be a sufficient replacement for mainstream-users? a – though quickly altered – blog-post from within Microsoft leads to new speculation at TechCrunch.
Freebase – [...]

iLike: indie-music recommendations for iTunes

though Pandora and Last.fm have been dominating the market of web-based music recommendation- & streaming-services during the past two years, we’ve seen some interesting new products emerging these days. while recently reviewed SpotDJ enters new ground, turning listeners into content-producers by recording their comments on tracks, iLike is unique in terms of the particular music [...]

SpotDJ: distributed radio-DJing

SpotDJ is an innovative service aimed at people who are feeling bored by listening to a monotonous stream of playlisted audio-tracks and instead wish to get background-infos on currently played artist & track or just some moody rant – like radio-DJs did back in the day
using the locally installed SpotDJ application, listeners become [...]

iTunes 7.0.1 released

as anticipated by many customers, Apple quickly released a follow-up to the bemoaned 7.0 release of iTunes. iTunes 7.0.1 (both windows and mac osx) “addresses stability and performance issues with Cover Flow, CD importing, iPod syncing, and more”. however, feedback on the update indicates that some problems still persist, so I was glad to find [...]

iTunes 7: early adopter’s misery

iTunes 7 received loads of bad press immediately after last weeks release. especially Windows-users complain about heavily increased CPU- and memory-load, disfunctional download of cover-artwork, problems with certain iPod-models and destroyed installations. this reminds a lot of itTunes 6, which was quite buggy in its inital release as well (lets remember this when iTunes 8 [...]

Apple Showtime: summary

Apple’s ‘Showtime’-event focussed on digital media just ended 2 hours ago, and like with augusts WWDC keynote, I’m not too impressed with the outcome. check TechCrunch for a brief summary or Engadget for an extremley detailed live-blog + hands-on reports with all products.
as expected, iTMS now sells feature-movie downloads for as low as $13 (pre-orders [...]