Dan Kantor

Thu, Sep 2nd

David Noël: Mark: How Would I Improve Ping?

yvynyl:
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For someone working in tech/music, it’s probably uncool to admit that until now, I haven’t looked at what Ping does. Heck, haven’t even updated iTunes. Also, I didn’t watch the keynote and didn’t read a lot of tech blogs today and from what Mark writes below, I won’t even bother…

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Tue, Aug 31st

New Release: Bandcamp Support and Keyboard Shortcuts

extensionfm:

We just released 1.5.6 to the Chrome extension gallery. This new release adds support for Bandcamp as well as Keyboard Shortcuts and better sync between computers.

Bandcamp is an amazing service that offers bands the ability to create their own pages where they can stream music as well as sell it directly to their fans. We are proud to say that ExtensionFM now supports these pages. When you come across a Bandcamp album page, songs will automatically be added to your library. Of course, songs always have links back to the album page where they were found. If you like the music (and we know you will!), you can easily buy it by right-clicking on a song and then choosing ‘Buy’.

Check out some of these great artists and albums on Bandcamp:

Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People

Zoe Keating - Into The Trees

Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer

Keyboard Shortcuts

You now have the ability to control playback using keyboard shortcuts. This makes it really simple to play, pause and skip tracks without having to change tabs or click on the Ex button. These will work on the player page as well as any page you currently have open. To enable, visit your Settings page and turn on this option. Please note, that these will not work on secure https pages.

New Sync

Also in this release is a completely revamped sync engine. If you have created an account you should notice a significant improvement in how well your libraries across multiple computers stay in sync.

We’d love to hear what you think about these new features. Leave us a comment here or on our UserVoice support page.

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j2d2:

I dub this picture: Hometown pride

Two pieces of art by Brad Amorosino, one t shirt (the first aid kit one) by JP Chirdon of Wolf Ollins and a poster for Rogue Wave in the background also by Wolf Ollins (not sure if it was by JP though).

If you look closely enough, you’ll see a flier for a K Word show, a Denali poster and a Pedro The Lion poster.

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-29)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

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Mon, Aug 30th

Got FiOS this weekend. It’s Great

This weekend, we got FiOS installed in our apartment. The Verizon guy came at 8AM and was there until 1PM. He did a great job getting the fiber optic cable from the hallway into our apartment. He hid the cable very well and really took pride in his work explaining everything he was doing as he went along.

It’s been two days and so far I am extremely pleased with the service. The Internet is really fast. I spent Sunday uploading every last photo I have to Flickr. With Time Warner, I would see upload speeds of 30kb/s. FiOs was showing 10,000kb/s. An amazing difference!

The DVR software is a lot better than Time Warner. It’s very responsive and a lot more intuitive. The picture quality is maybe slightly better but the real big win is that it hasn’t dropped out once. With Time Warner, the video and audio would constantly drop out.

The multiroom DVR is also great. We got a TV in the bedroom a few months ago after holding out for two years. We got a DVR but quickly realized how annoying it was to have to manage two DVRs. ‘Did we record it in both places?’ ‘Did we delete it in the bedroom?’ Now we no longer have to deal with that. We record and manage shows in the main room and have them in both places.

The best part about FiOS is that we are paying a lot less than we were with Time Warner.
Time Warner’s bill has consistently gone up every year as the service has gotten worse. Each ‘upgrade’ to their DVR actually removed features. Funny how that happens. I’m happy to put them in my rearview and take a step into the future with FiOS.

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musichackday:

We thought it was about time we started a Music Hack Day blog, somewhere to keep everyone up to date with news from all our events worldwide. We’ll also be posting plenty of other stuff that we find interesting here.

To kick things off, what could be better than posting our official ‘Music Hack Day Theme’ video.

It started out as a little project at Music Hack Day Amsterdam earlier this year by our friends Kamiel and Edial from Yourneighours.de. And we decided to hold a little contest on SoundCloud to find some music to make it more complete. The music we selected comes from Mark Theis, who wrote something especially for the video. We’re super excited about the finished results.

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Sun, Aug 29th

Beautiful night. I love this place (@ Maritime Hotel w/ 4 others) http://4sq.com/5wzmRJ

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Fri, Aug 27th

Two-phase user adoption: from “oh, wow!” to “oh, yeah…”

whitneymcn:

It’s a blog post, containing stuff like this:

No matter how good the thing you’ve made is, no matter how big the initial “oh, wow!” is for a user, there’s a crapload of other interesting stuff being released (as well as offline life continuing to roll along), and your cool thing will eventually be pushed to a back burner for a while. The question is what happens when your user hits that “oh, yeah…” moment of rediscovery.

And yeah, it’s got a bit of an ExtensionFM fanboy thing happening, but that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise at this point.

Enjoy.

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RT @pkafka: Meet ExtensionFM, the Music Startup Google Should Buy http://bit.ly/8YFqkk

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RT @LifehackerNews: ExtensionFM Turns the Web Into Your Personal Music Library [Downloads] http://bit.ly/9NwsoI #lifehacker

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