Monthly Archives: April 2007

I think it’s a lame idea too.

"People want to own their music," he said.

DRM is bad enoug, but renting the things I buy? How does that make sense?

"but I get unlimited music for $15 a month"

Great, good for you, and when you stop paying $15 a month, you get nothing, nada, zilch. So you enjoyed your unlimited music collection, largely things you’ll never listen to or be interested in, but you had access to it. Now you don’t

My music collection, not unlimited by any stretch, is mine. If I go broke and live in a van, my iPod will still have music on it. if Apple goes broke on iPhone refunds and goes away, my music is still here.

Can the same be said for Napster? Yahoo music?  No it can’t. Is Yahoo gonna go belly up? no, but they could decide that online music isn’t their thing, look at AIM if you need an example of a music subscription service that just "went away"

Is there a place for subscription music services? Maybe. I like the idea of being able to fully sample an album before I buy it, but it’s not the end of the world, I simply just buy what I know I like.

Oh yeah, Flex 3, open source. Interesting. :)

Actually a port of a Flex App. I took our 360|Flex Flickr search and simply ported it to an apollo app. It was quite easy, I’m really getting stoked at the possibilities. Not much to write home about, yet.

I hope to get more opportunities to play with this. I’m kinda thinking it’d make a great platform for my intranet search tool I’m playing with at work. How cool to not have to fire up your browser or go to the intranet search page, just load up this app. Kinda neat.

We’ll see.

Oh if you want, download it here.

UPDATE: I archived the .air file. guessing .air isn’t recognized yet? Not sure. but now the link is to a zip of the .air file :)

Unlike CFUnited which seems to raise it’s price every year, this years MAX is the same price as last year, no "alumni" discount needed.

I’m glad about that. Not that MAX Is cheap, but at least it’s not getting MORE expensive. Directly from the MAX Site.

Full Conference Pass
Access to the three-day MAX 2007 program, including access to all five session tracks, the Exhibit Pavilion, Birds of a Feather sessions, Welcome Reception, Conference Party, and the After Hours Lounges.
$1,095 – Early Bird discount, must be purchased on or before July 23, 2007
$1,295 – If purchased July 24, 2007 – Sept. 21, 2007
$1,495 – If purchased on-site Sept. 22, 2007 – Oct. 3, 2007

I’m torn on whether I’ll be attending it depends on work, and work. I’m hoping to go, I think (I’d better) see all my friends at 360|Flex, but MAX is, well… MAX it’s just fun. We’ll see. In the meantime here’s a neat little yourminis count down do-dad.

 

Not only is EUI having their RIA Summit, and Creation Chamber is hosting the Rocky mtn Apollo Ranch (think Apollo Camp in SF), and now today I found out about Defrag:\

It sounds like a neat conference. I’ve signed up for the email list to be notified when Reg opens.

Anyone wanna come see lovely (hopefully not snowed in) Denver in November. First round is on me.