Archive for May, 2008

Napster DRM free?

Looks like Napster is opening up a store to compete with Amazon MP3 and iTunes Plus. Unfortunately I can’t confirm that because I can’t ssh tunnel through my Detroit box while I’m at the conference (ssh tunneling is blocked over wifi.) The napster.com site keeps referring me to napster.ca, so I’ll have to trust Macworld.

Jot notes from #meshU on web metrics

Here’s a dump from the monitoring talk at meshU. Slides are available. Again, formatting is a mess, this time due to OpenOffice. Watching websites Presentation by bitcurrent Used to work for a company called coradiant Roughly one third of the audience monitors their website for uptime Startup 101: New idea -> Execution -> Feedback (did [...]

Jot notes for #meshU on data storage

Here’s a raw dump from Kate that I’ll format when I get home. Freshbooks talk DabbleDB – While doing dev for Viaweb, took heat from pseudotechs like VCs and industry analysts for not using a relational database. – Used files – also took heat for using cheap PCs running FreeBSD Two companies that used nonconventional [...]

Another free NIN album?!

I’m exhausted so I’ll keep this post short and sweet. NIN has released a new album for free! Grab it from him or grab it from my mirror. Looks like I still have 7mbit free, and that’s including seeding on BitTorrent.