Jun 23, 2008
‘Doomed’ in music album covers rendered by Amaztype – check it out
In Canada, PWC forecasts that music downloads will exceed physical music sales by 2011. That’s no longer amazing, though it would have seemed so to the music industry five years ago. Now it’s just further confirmation of what we already knew – the music industry is undergoing change at of such magnitude...
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Do CDs have a future in the developing world?
Mar 10, 2008
Facebook adds political party affiliation Originally uploaded by thatjonesboy.
In place of the original vague "libera/conservative" affiliations we now get actual political parties, which is great if you vote for the same political party every election and agree with their entire platform, which is… rare. But make no mistake, this is a step forward.
In Australia, all Federal parties...
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Facebook wants to know about your politics
Feb 28, 2008
Met Mike Culver, web services evangelist for Amazon’s S3 cloud services today on his first trip downunder. All this cool stuff about how we can base an entire startup on a pay-as-you-go storage and computing model with the same reliability and speed as Amazon itself.
Mainly technical discussion, so a lot of it way over my head but one of my questions hit home:
If Amazon’s charging me in USD...
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Amazon’s international billing problem
