For a while I’m using del.icio.us for my bookmarking. I’m using it as my primary bookmarking service since I found out about the firefox extension.

Del.icio.us can make a daily roundup of your bookmarks and post it to your blog. This is what happened last night. I’m not sure if this is good or bad. I will just try it for a while.

wilbertbaan’s bookmarks on del.icio.us

Update April 21, the daily posting speed up the frequency of the blog too much. The three postings are set back to april 3rd to remove them from the frontpage.

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This is really cool. A project group that searches Flickr for images made around the same physical space. All you have to do is finding photos and combining them into a movie ;)

“Assembly aims to build a short film by using images on Flickr. Flickr has millions of photos tagged by users and if you place proper images one after another you can build a irtual camera. The hard part is finding suitable images.”

Watch the video experiments: Movie Assembly

Will iTunes Adopt a Subscription Model? There are a lot of speculations about what will happen after Apple drops the DRM on songs purchased through iTunes.

I personally think a subscription based system is the best and most profitable strategy for the music industry. Subscriptions control the new economy. Music and movies are a service. The always were. You’re allowed to play it, but not to share it or show it in public. The content was never in your possession. You rented it for an unlimited amount of time and eventually the media outdated itself because of technological improvements (vinyl, tape).

Since the compressed files media doesn’t need a carrier anymore. It is free to move and duplicate, everything is an original. Music becomes interactive radio. You can listen to it whenever you want and on demand.

Digital Rights Management doesn’t use the advantages of new media, it simulates the cd-experience by making a digital file a physical object.

You can’t stop innovation and you certainly can’t stop digital innovation. From this perspective DRM is doomed to stop. In the same way linear television programming will end. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but it will. So, when Apple announces to stop it themselves they speed up innovation. Innovation they need to stay ahead of the competition.

The business model shouldn’t focus on the files anymore, but on the concept of a stream. Like cable television or an internet connection. You subscribe to use it. The type of the files doesn’t matter, this could be mp3 for now because it is supported by most devices. It can be something else in the future. It doesn’t matter.

I don’t need physical files on my harddrive, I don’t have to own the music (the same way you keep your money at a bank). All I want is to listen to the music I like where and when I want. It shouldn’t be so hard to sync an iPod to a web connection and load it with new music without storing files on the harddrive.

For example if I would pay max $40,- a month and I’m able to download all the music I want, I would end up paying more or around the same as I am right now, for new music. All I want is play what I like, when and where I want. Smart library software (already in iTunes) will make sure the artist gets some of my monthly fee every time I listen a song.

Recently the Washington Post started a podcast in 720p resolution. This feed is made to be used with the Apple TV Set Top Box connected to High Definition televisions.

The message is clear. The Washington Post wants to be on the television set in the living room.

An example video (Crisis in Darfur Expands: Testimonials) http://cdn.washingtonpost.com/podcast/HD_video_podcast/030207-2v.mp4

(181Mb for 6 minutes, these files are enormous! After YouTube started burning bandwidth filesize doesn’t seem to matter anymore. The video quality is really good)

Subscribe to the Washington Post HD feed

A Oxford Institute webcast about Social Media or The Impact of Us. A presentation about the power of groups and large collections of user based information, and how to use it.

For the Mpeg 4 junkies and hypernarrative Podcast subscribers among you check out the 227 Mb file here: http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/download/oii/20070219_182/20070219_182_small.mp4

And there is more…

I’m on Twitter for three weeks now and still not sure what to do with it. I really like it, but can’t exactly tell why.

At first sight Twitter looks useless, but so did Last.fm to me when I first noticed it.

Twitter is like Instant Messaging mixed with RSS. You can subscribe to someone’s stream and talk to someone. And of course opt-out whenever you like.

Maybe I like the buzz around it, a lot of stuff is happening. Everyday a creative mind has constructed a new feature. Who knows, for now it is a lot of fun.

Twitterrific for your desktop.
Twittervision a mashup with Google Maps.
Twitterment for comparing Twits.
Twittercamp Twit-visualization on the desktop.