“While most people were chowing down on turkey and stuffing last week, the Boxee team was hard at work creating the next release of their Alpha,” the developers reveal.
It’s always nice when a major mass market brand tries to drive its energy behind non-mass market culture, so we’re pleased to see Google’s launch of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra project.
Posted by Jonny on November 22nd, 2008 under Apple, News
We’ve been writing a lot recently about Boxee, who develop a powerful media centre application for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and the Apple TV.
For Apple TV users, of course, the big news is that after an extensive push by the hard-working developers behind the project, the new version of the software that’s compatible with the recently-software-updated Apple TV 2.3 is available now.
“For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It’s time for us to take matters into our own hands,” the Python crew said, as they launch an all-new dedicated and legal Monty Python channel on YouTube. Catch a hand-picked selection of the team’s best clips, with a polite request to buy some stuff now and then.
A new music video site that offers back-to-back playback of YouTube clips of the top 100 songs in pop, r&b, rock, hip-hop and dance engaged in a soft launch this month.
Playcharts.com aggregates data from multiple sources to develop its charts, and then races across the internet to source relevant videos. The service also offers back-to-back playback of new music across the genres it tracks.
Posted by Jonny on November 14th, 2008 under Apple, News
While legal beagles flood the ‘net with searches for the New York Bar Exam today, the rest of us are really, really passionate about music, new research explains - and it looks like good news for Apple and others in the sector this Holiday Season, read on…
A pair of reports emanating from Bauer Media and the Consumer Electronics Association show a growing appetite for music among consumers (that’s you and I), and increasing demand for music among US teens.
YouTube will soon sell spaces on its search results pages to advertisers, yet another in its series of attempts to monetize its hugely popular service. This will enable anyone with a video available on the service to promote it on search results pages. More after the clip…
Posted by Jonny on November 12th, 2008 under Apple, News, Opinion
Apple’s “hobby” the Apple TV has a chance at becoming a ubiquitous household item, though the company may need to add support for non-Apple media services and implement many new features if it seriously intends making an iPod-level impact on this important growing market.
The reason Apple has the chance is visible in the growing momentum behind development of solutions to bring online video to the front room - a sector becoming quickly more intense.
Online video on-demand services such as iTunes or Hulu are hot properties, meaning many more devices - including TVs offering features similar to the Apple TV - should begin to reach market en masse starting next year. And even if Apple does not develop such solutions there will still be winners and losers in the race to offer the ‘iPod’ equivalent of the multimedia for the front room box.
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