Daniel Ek (Spotify CEO) took the stage at the F8 Facebook conference yesterday and announced that Spotify has adopted the Facebook Open Graph.
p.s. Facebook Music was a joke and never existed. Most of the top tech blogs really need to check their sources.
Forbes has just released their annual “Richest People in America” list. First of all 8 of the top 20 are related to the internet and computer industries!
However, the main news this year is that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is up from 35th previous year to 14th this year. Zuckerberg is worth $17.5 billion and is now above Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Very impressive for a punked up kid from the valley.
Here is the video for the new Nissan Versa iAd. Nissan is taking advantage of the ability to offer 360-degree views with so-called gyro technology.
Amazing timelapse videom from the International Space Station. Enjoy!
Vimeo has just launched their on Music licensing stores, which makes it a lot easier for creators to download music for their videos.
New Yorker Casey Neistat got a ticket of $50 for riding his bike outside of a bike lane.
He then made this PSA to show what happens to obedient NYC bicyclists who stay where they belong…
(via Neatorama)
Anonymous has announced that September 24th will be the “Day Of Vengence” and will commit a series of cyber attacks.
The full press release:
Wednesday – September 21, 2011
On September 17, 2011 approximately 15,000 peaceful demonstrators
in dozens of cities around the USA gathered, marched – and occupied
public space to protest the unjust policies of the US government
and the corruption in our financial institutions. The central
protest site was in the financial district of New York City, where
peaceful protesters faced phalanxes of heavily armed paramilitary
police officers from local and federal jurisdictions. The arrests
began almost immediately, many for violating the 1845 so called
“mask” laws.Later that day, and according to plan – many of these protests
ended with a peaceful occupation of public space. Again, the
central occupation occurred in NYC. More arrests continued to take
place. All of this was expected, it is part of progressive
activism. Anonymous was content to challenge these stupid “mask”
laws in court. Not only is the Guy Fawlkes mask covered under
freedom expression as a symbol of our movement, but we believe that
everyone has a right to protest anonymously using bandanas, masks -
etc.But then on Tuesday – September 20, 2011 everything changed in a
flash of police instigated violence. As rain began to fall on the
NYC encampment, heavily armed police moved in; Removing tarps used
to cover media equipment, arresting independent journalists,
confiscating media equipment – and using excessive force against
and arresting innocent peaceful protesters, several of whom were
abused and injured.This year, we heard President Barack Obama and Secretary Hillary
Clinton say over and over in country after country from the Balkans
through the mid-east to Africa that the right to peacefully protest
and occupy public space is a right that MUST be respected in every
instance. And they are correct, and this also applies to the USA.
In fact, even more so. In the USA of all countries in the world,
the police should have been deployed to PROTECT the protesters -
not a giant brass bull that is the ultimate symbol of greed and
corruption in America. And yet we were treated to the grotesque
picture of dozens of armored police surrounding this brass bull,
while thousands more police were deployed solely to harass, arrest -
and abuse peaceful protesters.Anonymous & the other cyber liberation groups around the world
together with all the freedom loving people in the USA will NOT
stand for this. We will peacefully yet forcefully resist the abuses
of the NYC Police Department. And so Anonymous announces a
nationwide “Day Of Vengence” to take place in dozens of cities
across the USA on Saturday – September 24, 2011 at High Noon.Poster – http://t.co/BSuXCdRR
Video – http://youtu.be/2svRa-VSaOU
In coordination with these protests across the USA on September
24th, Anonymous and other cyber liberation groups will launch a
series of cyber attacks against various targets including Wall
Street, Corrupt Banking Institutions – and the NYC Police
Department. We encourage the media to follow the Twitter feed
@PLF2012 for ongoing reports throughout the day.We Are Anonymous – We Are Everywhere – We Are Legion – We Never
Forget – We Never ForgiveEXPECT US — Anonymous
It is a very big day for Pandora as they are launching the new version of their site.
Some of our new features include:
Simplified Station Creation – Enhanced auto-complete choices and personalized suggestions make creating new stations and discovering new music or comedy more intuitive and personal.
Discovery of Music with Friends – Enhanced listener profiles and a new music feed offer a centralized place to find, like and comment on what friends and like-minded listeners are discovering and enjoying on Pandora. The music feed will roll out slowly over the course of the coming days. In addition to the prominent new “share” button, stations now have their own URLs, making it super easy for listeners to share favorite stations via Twitter, Facebook, or email.
Improved Control – Prominent and ubiquitous access to familiar player control buttons including Play, Pause, Thumbs-Up and Thumbs-Down icons helps listeners to easily personalize their music and comedy stations. A new shuffle feature also allows listeners to shuffle any collection of stations to add variety to their listening experience.
Enhanced Artist Information – An option to learn more about the music, find lyrics, read artists’ biographies and expand the album art size.
Unlimited listening – We’ve removed the 40 hours listening cap – you can now listen as much as you want for free.
via – Pandora
The people over at OpenDNS are trying to keep their office Velociraptor Free.
via – Laughing Squid
Kazaa has actually just got their new iPhone music streaming app into the App Store.
With Kazaa you can use your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to listen to unlimited, on-demand music everywhere. Play any of our millions of songs as much as you like, make your own playlists, listen to artist stations and discover new music that you love. Sync songs, albums and playlists to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch and listen even when you’re offline. Search and find any song, album or artist, and start listening immediately.
The app is US only at the moment and free to download. You will need to pay a subscription charge of $9.99 a month.
