Last week Google launched the Music Onebox — a special new search result that lets users stream songs in their entirety for free. The feature is being powered through partnerships with MySpace and Lala , who are providing the song streams, with contributions from a host of other partners like Pandora and imeem . [...more]
Skype’s Linux version will soon become open source software – and maybe run on every smartphone, TV set-top box or other gadget powered by the free operating system. It could also become part of multi-protocol messengers like Pidgin or eBuddy or Meebo [...more]
MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta will make a number of announcements on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon. [...more]
I've been angling to get rid of my TiVo and cable for some time now and I believe I've finally figured out a solution that works best for me. It involves a lots scripting, Sabnzbd , and HandbrakeCLI and I'll tell you what I ultimately did next week once it's stable but it seems to be working as well as can be expected for these sorts of hacks [...more]
Immediately after the Verizon Razzle was announced, it was quite clear that this wasn’t a phone made for me. That said, after spending a bit of time with it, I’m not sure this phone is really made for anyone . The Razzle’s gimmick (really – that’s what it is) is that it twists in the center to allow the user to switch between a QWERTY keyboard and a loudspeaker. [...more]
Buma/Stemra , a Dutch collective rights society that represents the interests of copyright holders (some 19,000 composers, authors and publishers), is the topic of the day in the Dutch blogosphere and beyond. The association has managed to wield itself into the eye of the storm because of the introduction of new, exorbitantly high digital music licensing fees, and its stated willingness to fine bloggers up to €21,6 (roughly $31.8) per music video they dare embed on their websites or blogs [...more]
Back in December 2008 Reevoo looked like it was running out of time. The UK-based B2B customer reviews site hunkered down on staffing amid pressure from the downbeat economic climate in an attempt to play out its investment from Banexi Venture Partners and Eden Ventures . Partner revenue was coming in but its crowd-sourced reviews were invisible on Google and it was, in my opinion, treading water [...more]
![Daniel Johnston’s iPhone Game Is Predictably Bizarre, Bizarrely Fun [IPhone Apps]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/4dfbae7586areyou.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
Uber-twee musician, charmingly earnest lyricist, noted bipolar dude and unwitting icon Daniel Johnston has an iPhone app—a game, to be specific. The biggest surprise, aside from the fact that it exists , is that it's actually pretty great [...more]
Just like Web 2.0 start-ups have been spending much of 2009 trying to figure out how to turn users and community into revenues, so too have the last few years’ crop of Internet celebrities been trying to figure out how to make a business out of those over-used buzz words “their personal brands.” Think of all the online fame that’s been created in the last few years amid this hype of the Web democratizing celebrity. Now try to name how many of them crossed over to mainstream popularity [...more]
![Nintendo DS "Sings" Daft Punk With a Little Help From Korg DS-10 [Nintendo DS]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/226ac3e48deus1283.gif&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
The Internet is pretty ripe with cool Korg DS-10 videos, but this is the first one I've seen where the "game" got the venerable DS humming a tune alongside the duo from Daft Punk . Sorry if that makes me sheltered or whatnot, but impressed I am, nevertheless. Credit is due to Denkitribe, who used the musically inclined gray matter in his noggin to tweak the analog sound waveforms available in DS-10 to sound like words from Daft Punk's Harder Better Faster Stronger . [...more]
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