Year: 2007

Last.fm and Beatport

Posted on by Daniel J. McKeown

I was talking to Jessica yesterday about the differences between the music sites.  Beatport.com lets you listen to a sample of songs, like last.fm does when you wander into the store portion.  But the web 2.0 cred like this Yahoo Pipes page using it and Youtube, social (music) bookmarking features on last.fm, html instead of Flash (for stuff like permalinks), and radio-style format which plays full songs for free make the site a real competitive threat to more conventional retail operations like Amazon, Beatport and iTunes.

Also–check out my new diary page.

Widgetbox.com responds to Jessica’s post

Posted on by Daniel J. McKeown

Jessica’s recent blog entry about widgetbox.com, which I had enjoyed, got a comment. She writes about it on Cat Tails:

‘I like CTOs like Dean Moses of Widgetbox.com who search Blogger to see what people are saying about their company. Here’s what Mr. Moses had to say about my post on Widgetbox.com:

“Jessica, thanks for the most entertaining constructive criticism we’ve heard all year.

We get a lot of feedback that ‘blidget’ sounds like bludger, the ball Harry Potter uses in Quidditch matches.

I like your take on it better.

Dean Moses
CTO
Widgetbox”

I think Widgetbox.com has a future my friends!’