29 March 2011 5 Comments

Thoughts on Amazon’s Locker Service

Amazon’s new “Cloud Player” music service is a welcome addition to the field of online music services. It is a basic music locker service in its current form, largely identical to the Myplay Locker Service Doug Camplejohn and I pioneered and launched in 1999. Users get 5GB of storage free (Myplay was 3GB free), can [...]

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19 August 2008 1 Comment

Why is everyone so confused about Muxtape?

Why is everyone so confused about Muxtape?

The blogosphere is enraged at the shut-down of a popular site called Muxtape. I am not one to defend the overly litigious nature of the fading music industry (will the lawyers be the only employees be left standing at the four majors?), but this site was unlicensed and was offering interactive (i.e., on demand) streaming [...]

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