We are presently negotiating with some of the major record labels to resolve a dispute over licensing music for LAUNCHcast. This is why the catalog available for your station is now 150,000 songs, and you\’re not hearing all artists you might have rated highly. However, please note that you still have access to the entire catalog of 225,000+ songs by listening to fan stations of your favorite artists via the artist pages.
Yahoo! Help - LAUNCHcast
As I said last post, Yahoo! Music was really drving me crazy with it’s song selection. So I went searching around to see if there was a reason I wasn’t getting to listen to the artist I ranked — other than the fact that I wouldn’t use the paid service and I was over my “monthly bandwidth”. Well there was. This just annoys me. The record industry makes enough money as it is — I’m talking about the companies and the executives, not the musicans — they don’t need more. Didn’t they also want more money from Apple as well? Talk about a monopoly.
… of the semester. I just got back from fall break and am procrastinating doing my accounting homework. Which isn’t that hard, but incredibly time comsuming and I just don’t have the concentration to do it all in one sitting. It was nice to go home and see some friends and all, but I am glad to be back out here. This place has been more homey that home is, but I guess that’s too be expected.
I would really like to know what the fasination with Facebook is. Our campus was just added to it and by the response it got you would think that it was the best thing since sliced bread. Now I can understand being somewhat excited that we now have access to it, but seriously people, I think some of us go a little overboard with it. Repeat it with me, “Facebook Friends are not a benchmark for popularity, and neither is the amount of groups you are in.” In my opinion it’s interesting but nothing to get too excited about.
Flock has been publicily released. I’ve got my copy, now I only need to actually use it some time.
I really like the Yahoo! Music player. It has some really nice options, such as ratings, moods, and your own station. The only bad thing is that they limit the bandwidth usage, and the playlist is seems, for non paying customers. While it doesn’t cost that much, I can’t even spare that much a month. I’m barely making due as it is, of course that’s probably because I still don’t have a job. The only other major gripe I have against it is that you have to use IE to launch it. Bummer 
I wish I was at the Web 2.0 conference this week. But alas I have school…boring, dreadful school. Even thought I’m unable to be there I still have found quite a few interesting “Web 2.0″ projects and sites lately.
- Netvibes - Web based RSS Reader with AJAX.
- Flock - New browser from some former Mozilla folks. A LOT of hype is surrounding this.
- Wink - a social search engine that creates a TagRank by aggregating user-generated tags from across the Web
- Zimbra - Collaboration suite for email and the like that seems to be impressing a lot of people at Web 2.0
The software on that list that I like the most so far is Netvibes. For some reason it just works really well. You can add whatever feeds you want on the same page. It also has a button so you can update each feed individually and it automatically updates. I am also anxiously awaiting the release of Flock. It supposedly incorporates blogging tools, tags and other stuff to smooth out some of the
hairy parts of the web.
UPDATE: Techcrunch is running a two parter on the companies at the Web 2.0 conference.
