Today is Radio Silence Day, when thousands of online radio music stations go silent to protest the upcoming increase in music fees. This canard promoted by the RIAA basically insures that any internet radio station goes out of business. Not only will fees increase, but they are retroactive to the past 18 months!
Pandora says it best. Read their home page here:
http://pandora.com/
Mad yet? Call your congressman!
Today we have just released a cool gadget - the Free Applian Media Browser Toolbar. From within Internet Explorer or Firefox, you can stay notified when Applian product news and updates occur, quickly get access to tutorials and help with streaming media recording problems, as well as some handy gadgets including a search box, radio player, weather bug, email notifier and more.
The Applian Media Toolbar is free. Check it out here:
http://applian.com/toolbar/
Today just seems to be the day of neat discoveries. Have a look at the Veoh player - it can download videos from a variety of places, it lets you subscribe to RSS Video feeds, and it even has a "10 foot" TV mode so you can sit back and enjoy your videos. And Replay Converter works with the video downloads. Pretty cool stuff.
Check it out at veoh.com.
This has little to do with the media business, but it's so cool that it's worth sharing. Check out http://recaptcha.net.
This service supplies free captchas - those squiggly words supposedly readable only by humans and not computers, used to prevent automated submissions of forms. The captchas are taken from scanning books where the OCR software fails. After enough humans verify a captcha, the word is corrected as a part of the book scan.
This solves two real world problems at once - supplying unique captchas to Web sites, and deciphering unreadable words using human power. Brilliant!
(Read more from the site to see how the software knows that a captcha is correct before it's actually verified.)
