VivMedia Code Library: Version 0.03 released
Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Distribution, Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | No Comments »I pushed a new version of the library yesterday to Google Code. This is a relatively small release, which was not really my intention for version 0.03. Originally, I was planning on adding the first of a series ...
Blinded by the Hype
Friday, September 8th, 2006 Posted in Distribution, Film, Music | No Comments »According to most of the bands and artists I know, the Internet is going to break them into the spotlight. They saw how big the Arctic Monkeys got by using the Internet to establish a massive fan base that shot ...
MySpace + Snocap = profit?
Thursday, September 7th, 2006 Posted in Digital Rights Management, Distribution, Music | No Comments »Recently MySpace (like you really need a link) announced that they are seriously looking into providing a for-sale digital music service: "The goal is to be one of the biggest digital music stores out there," MySpace co-founder ...
The future of Wi-Fi
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music, Satellite Radio | No Comments »Last night, before the weekly FS evening meeting Maer, Chris and I started discussing a recent article in the NY Times that Christopher had sent out to all the Fake Scientists. The article focuses on the new "tastemakers" and services ...
Anti-DRM day
Friday, September 1st, 2006 Posted in Digital Rights Management, Distribution, General Media / Stuff | No Comments »Defective By Design (DBD), an anti-DRM (Digital Rights Management) organization, is proposing a "Day Against DRM" in which they want to organize a massive online and meetspace awareness day. Some of you may have already heard or even seen some ...
Fake Science Remix Contest — Vote now!!
Monday, August 28th, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music | No Comments »A while back I announced the Fake Science and Monkey Love Records Remix contest. Over the last 2 months we were taking submissions and we have now closed the submission process and voting is open to the public! You can ...
Re-education
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music | No Comments »Sometimes your initial impression of a service is just off. When I first heard of Magnatune a few years back I thought they were a digital music store that worked with unsigned artists. Too be perfectly honest, they where a ...
Remix Contest (win an iPod Nano)
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music | No Comments »Last week Monkey Love Records and Fake Science launched our first remix contest, featuring “Stringing Away Revisited†by Robberriff. We have licensed the song under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License which allows you to download the song, hack it ...
To download or not to download?
Thursday, May 18th, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music | 1 Comment »Do you know what the number 2 digital music store is? If you look at current market reports they say that eMusic owns 9% and therefore is second only to iTunes 80% market share. The interesting thing about ...
What I learned at the CC Salon
Thursday, April 20th, 2006 Posted in Distribution | No Comments »The other week I spoke at the Creative Commons Salon to talk about Fake Science, Podcasting and music. I was the first speaker and after me was Bob Ostertag and Lucas Gonze (founder of Webjay). One of the main themes ...
