September, 2006

Internet / Web 2.0 — No Comments
19
Sep 06

MSNTube, I Mean Soapbox

As YouTube is trying to convert gazillion visitors into some cold cash, Microsoft announced today that they are launching their MSN Video service Soapbox as an invitation-only beta service.

The announcement says that powerful Web 2.0 technologies are used to provide a great experience for the users. We will probably have more idea as more people start using it and those beta testers start reviewing the new service. It will be interesting to see how far this Microsoft catch-up action will fly and whether it will be able to compete with Google Video and YouTube.

One interesting feature of Soapbox is that the Flash and Windows media formats will be stored in the backend and will be delivered to the user according to their OS platform-browser combination.

More comments about Soapbox can be found here, here and here.

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Music — No Comments
12
Sep 06

Tune of the Week

Starting from today, I decided to make Tuesday’s the day for my Tune of the Week posts. Each week I will choose a non-RIAA track that I like and post it here for your listening pleasure. I know I missed several weeks for the regular PhD Cliche of The Week posts but I will keep up with the tunes. Actually, I will get on track with the??PhD Cliche of The Week?posts as soon as I am done with my area paper. For now, it is easier to post mp3’s.

Let’s move on to the music, shall we? From all those tracks that I love, I chose Under the Weather from a band called Three Man. They are a Buffalo, NY based rock band and I heard them on Insomnia Radio. I am no good at describing how a music sounds but believe me it is good. To give you a better idea, they use the tagline “Heavy Rock with echoes of Alice in Chains, Metallica and Black Sabbath” on their CD Baby page.

Give it a listen and buy the track or their CD from Amazon, iTunes, or CD Baby.

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