So, I'm finally on my way back home from CES. Four days in Vegas is just too many. Give me 2 days, that would be perfect. Just enough time to lose some money, but not long enough to do too much irreparable damage to my liver or my bank account. The biggest news at CES... Macworld. Or, more specifically the iPhone (or whatever it will be called after Cisco sues Apple for infringing on their copyright). I'm not a huge fan of Apple, or Steve Jobs, and to be honest... my hope was that the iPhone would suck. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it sucks (no surprise there I guess).
As for the attendees at CES itself... most of it was relatively boring in my opinion. Lots of HDTVs as always, but this year they are just bigger and better resolution. Dual mode HD-DVD/Blu-Ray players that cost as much as stacking a dedicated HD-DVD player on top of a dedicated Blu-Ray player. More iPod accessories than you can shake a stick at.
I finally made it over to the Sands Convention center (where the smaller companies where), and that is where the more intersting stuff was. Sling was there with quite a crowd. Torian, the Aussie company with a wi-fi portable radio, was there. A couple of EVDO/WiFi routers that you mount in your car's trunk and turns you vehicle into a dedicated hotspot at 70 mph. Moxi is entering the retail channel this year with the set-top box/entertainment center/DVR.
There were a handful of other things that I thought were relatively interesting, but my brain is resting right now and unable to recall what they were...
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Cringely says DRM doomed in 2007, so is Zune - The Digital Music Weblog
Cringely says DRM doomed in 2007, so is Zune - The Digital Music Weblog: "As for the Zune, I don't think it matters. Zune 2.0 or not the only thing that will displace Apple as top dog in the digital music marketplace is the end of DRM for mainstream, major label music. The death of DRM would make major changes in the hardware ecosystem possible, as manufacturers compete for eardrums and eyeballs on a level playing field. "
I agree that the death of DRM would the digital music equivalent of the Berlin Wall coming down. But, I think that if/when this happens, then Microsoft is actually in a really good place with the Zune. The sharing capabilities would instantly become compelling and all the iPod Nation would start to quickly realize that they lead in "form" but trail the rest of the device world in "function".
Although, imagine the consumer bliss if ultimtaely people with iPhones could share tracks with the Zuners, Nokia-cans and Treo-istas. Cats and dogs living together in harmony, whoa...
I agree that the death of DRM would the digital music equivalent of the Berlin Wall coming down. But, I think that if/when this happens, then Microsoft is actually in a really good place with the Zune. The sharing capabilities would instantly become compelling and all the iPod Nation would start to quickly realize that they lead in "form" but trail the rest of the device world in "function".
Although, imagine the consumer bliss if ultimtaely people with iPhones could share tracks with the Zuners, Nokia-cans and Treo-istas. Cats and dogs living together in harmony, whoa...
Friday, January 05, 2007
hypebot: Virgin Shuts US Music Subscription. Napsters Jumps In
hypebot: Virgin Shuts US Music Subscription. Napsters Jumps In
Hypebot has more details on the Virgin/Napster deal. Microsoft abandoning PlaysforSure may be the best thing that ever happened to Napster. It is helping to force the hand of the subscription players - basically testing them see how serious they are about competiting in the space. They either need to invest time and resources in coming up with an alternative DRM/device story, or just bailout and sell their subs to those that are willing to (apparently Napster).
Where are the Coral guys in all of this?! They should be swooping in and providing an easy migration plan and ecosystem story to all of these guys....
Hypebot has more details on the Virgin/Napster deal. Microsoft abandoning PlaysforSure may be the best thing that ever happened to Napster. It is helping to force the hand of the subscription players - basically testing them see how serious they are about competiting in the space. They either need to invest time and resources in coming up with an alternative DRM/device story, or just bailout and sell their subs to those that are willing to (apparently Napster).
Where are the Coral guys in all of this?! They should be swooping in and providing an easy migration plan and ecosystem story to all of these guys....
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Hypebot: Napster Reports some growth
hypebot: Napster Reports Some Growth: "Napster also announced that it has partnered with Virgin Digital to market Napster to U.S.customers who currently use Virgin's paid music subscription service and net radio. Whether this signals a change in Virgin's own offerings is unclear."
The big subscription music shakeout is starting quickly in 2007.... it appears that Virgin is getting out of the business and selling off their subscribers to Napster.
The big subscription music shakeout is starting quickly in 2007.... it appears that Virgin is getting out of the business and selling off their subscribers to Napster.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
eMusic Mashups
I haven't had a chance to dig into these, but it appears that there are some "unofficial" mashups out there created by the folks at eMusic. There is a Pandora mashup which includes:
New Features in this version:
New eMusic browser tab at the bottom of the page monitors the track “now playing” and automatically displays the closest corresponding eMusic album page, artist page, or similar artist page
New “Recently Played” tab keeps a running linked list of the tracks & artists played/mashed
New “eMusic Radio Charts” tab highlights eMusic content receiving heavy airplay on various online radio services
Also, there is an iTunes (mac) plug-in that lets you select an artist from you library and "create station" in Pandora. Others also seem to be in the works:
Coming soon: More radio stations to choose from… KEXP, Seattle; WFMU, Jersey City; Soma FM, Last.fm, Selected Shoutcast stations, etc.
New Features in this version:
New eMusic browser tab at the bottom of the page monitors the track “now playing” and automatically displays the closest corresponding eMusic album page, artist page, or similar artist page
New “Recently Played” tab keeps a running linked list of the tracks & artists played/mashed
New “eMusic Radio Charts” tab highlights eMusic content receiving heavy airplay on various online radio services
Also, there is an iTunes (mac) plug-in that lets you select an artist from you library and "create station" in Pandora. Others also seem to be in the works:
Coming soon: More radio stations to choose from… KEXP, Seattle; WFMU, Jersey City; Soma FM, Last.fm, Selected Shoutcast stations, etc.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Other '07 Predictions: Bob Lefsetz
Bob Lefsetz has his 2007 Music Business predictions posted as well. His are a far more holistic view of the music business (including labels, artists, festival and traditional publications). He's got some great insight, even though I don't agree with some of his takes on the digital players (specifically Rhapsody and Zune).
He thinks Zune is dead. I think Microsoft will continue to pump money into it until they find a cure for death. Granted, the boys in Redmond have had some serious hardware failures (remember their brief foray into wireless routers, or UltimateTV?). But, many video game pundits wrote the Xbox off early on... but Microsoft decided this was far too important to their overall strategy to go quietly into this goodnight. I think the same will happen here, even though it may take a couple of years.
My other point of contention is with respect to Subscription Music services (he pinpoints Rhapsody, but I think it pertains to all). Bob seems to subscribe (no pun intended) that people want to "own their music" in the near-term (with subscription being potentially viable longer term). The thing that always has bugged me about that paradigm, is that people have never "owned" music. They own a specific recording or piece of plastic that it is delivered on. Pre-digital distribution, I bought CDs.... if I scratched that disc beyond repair, I didn't have the right to get another copy. I'd have to buy it again. Luckily the market and technology has progressed, in that, we can "own" a digital copy of the file (and redownload if it gets corrupted). That stands for both DRM'd and unprotected versions of the file.
For those that know me, you will know I am biased... I LOVE subscription music. To be it is not about "owning" music, but about being able to discover artists and albums that I would never before have access to. I can listen to millions of tracks (regardless of how I discover them). Those I like, I download. Those I don't, I just move on.
I completely agree that the issue the entire subscription music market has right now is being able to convey this value proposition to the mass public. I have been saying for a long time, that subscription music suffers from the "Tivo dilemma"... no one understood the value of Tivo, until they had one. Yes, it took time for people to understand the value, and the market grew relatively slowly as the value prop was spread virally - generally from people like me who would over-dramaticize it by saying (with a wink), "Tivo saved my marriage - instead of getting in trouble for not listening, now I can just hit pause and say 'yes dear?'".
I'm not claiming to be a marketing expert, but one of the (few) things I learned years ago in B-school.... market the benefits, not the features. People don't care about access to 2 million songs, they want to be exposed to music they know they like (or have a propensity to like based on their tastes).
My two cents (may, or may not, be worth more than your paradigms)....
He thinks Zune is dead. I think Microsoft will continue to pump money into it until they find a cure for death. Granted, the boys in Redmond have had some serious hardware failures (remember their brief foray into wireless routers, or UltimateTV?). But, many video game pundits wrote the Xbox off early on... but Microsoft decided this was far too important to their overall strategy to go quietly into this goodnight. I think the same will happen here, even though it may take a couple of years.
My other point of contention is with respect to Subscription Music services (he pinpoints Rhapsody, but I think it pertains to all). Bob seems to subscribe (no pun intended) that people want to "own their music" in the near-term (with subscription being potentially viable longer term). The thing that always has bugged me about that paradigm, is that people have never "owned" music. They own a specific recording or piece of plastic that it is delivered on. Pre-digital distribution, I bought CDs.... if I scratched that disc beyond repair, I didn't have the right to get another copy. I'd have to buy it again. Luckily the market and technology has progressed, in that, we can "own" a digital copy of the file (and redownload if it gets corrupted). That stands for both DRM'd and unprotected versions of the file.
For those that know me, you will know I am biased... I LOVE subscription music. To be it is not about "owning" music, but about being able to discover artists and albums that I would never before have access to. I can listen to millions of tracks (regardless of how I discover them). Those I like, I download. Those I don't, I just move on.
I completely agree that the issue the entire subscription music market has right now is being able to convey this value proposition to the mass public. I have been saying for a long time, that subscription music suffers from the "Tivo dilemma"... no one understood the value of Tivo, until they had one. Yes, it took time for people to understand the value, and the market grew relatively slowly as the value prop was spread virally - generally from people like me who would over-dramaticize it by saying (with a wink), "Tivo saved my marriage - instead of getting in trouble for not listening, now I can just hit pause and say 'yes dear?'".
I'm not claiming to be a marketing expert, but one of the (few) things I learned years ago in B-school.... market the benefits, not the features. People don't care about access to 2 million songs, they want to be exposed to music they know they like (or have a propensity to like based on their tastes).
My two cents (may, or may not, be worth more than your paradigms)....
Monday, January 01, 2007
My Predictions (or wishlist) for Digital Music in 2007
After reading the predictions from both Rags Gupta and Hypebot on what they think will shakeout in the digital music space in 2007, I thought I'd throw some more of my thoughts out as well - in short, 2007 is going to be the year of the acquistion. In no particular order...
UPDATE: I checked in on my predictions half way through the year. See how I'm doing.
- eMusic gets acquired - either by Microsoft or Amazon
- Last.fm gets acquired - smart money is on Google, but if Real was able to dig up enough of their settlement cash from Microsoft, then a Last.fm/Rhapsody combination is an extremely compelling service
- Pandora gets acquired - gotta think this is Microsoft considering they have already partnered with them for the MSN Radio relaunch
- Mercora gets sued - the labels will need to make an example of someone that they think is violating DMCA, and Mercora looks like a great target
- SpiralFrog launches with a thud - the ad supported model may eventually work for downloads, but I don't think SpiralFrog will be the ones to pull it off
- Zune slowly starts to make inroads - this is the equivalent of Microsoft Windows Mobile (CE) vs. Palm OS battle of last decade.... MS will spend enough time and effort to make this work for them
- Apple iTV will get lukewarm response - remember the Mac Mini? It was supposed to be perfect for this application as well...
That's a bunch of the top of my head... I'll come back later and add some more.
UPDATE: I checked in on my predictions half way through the year. See how I'm doing.
Rags' Soapbox: Digital Music Predictions for 2007
Rags Gupta has posted some predictions for the coming year.
There are some good ones in here, with my favorites being:
* Last.fm will be bought by Google, Viacom or Clear Channel in that order for a figure in the low to mid hundreds of millions of dollars.
* Pandora will go to the suitor that lost out on Last.fm.
I think Google is a great guess for a Last.fm acquistion, particularly considering they are in the business of aggregating usage behavior around consumers. They've also been quietly dipping their toes in the water with their Google Music Trends (which is fed by their IM client).
As for Pandora, I've got to think that Microsoft would be the most likely suitor considering their recent deal to have Pandora power their relaunched MSN Radio product. Also, an acquistion of a highly-regarded "music 2.0" company would give them some much need positive publicity to help feed their Zune ambitions....
There are some good ones in here, with my favorites being:
* Last.fm will be bought by Google, Viacom or Clear Channel in that order for a figure in the low to mid hundreds of millions of dollars.
* Pandora will go to the suitor that lost out on Last.fm.
I think Google is a great guess for a Last.fm acquistion, particularly considering they are in the business of aggregating usage behavior around consumers. They've also been quietly dipping their toes in the water with their Google Music Trends (which is fed by their IM client).
As for Pandora, I've got to think that Microsoft would be the most likely suitor considering their recent deal to have Pandora power their relaunched MSN Radio product. Also, an acquistion of a highly-regarded "music 2.0" company would give them some much need positive publicity to help feed their Zune ambitions....
More on All Crazy Style - Show Alerts
I posted a few days ago about the mashup of Last.fm and Upcoming.org, called AllCrazyStyle. As mentioned in that post, I then took the resulting feed and input it into my AOL Alerts so that when a band that I like was playing in my area, I would get an alert via IM, Email and/or SMS. Well, I just got my first one...
If I still went to a lot of shows (ah... the good ole days), this would be an indespensible tool. If I didn't have this set up, I'm guessing that I would have never known about this show until it was too late. There is another service called Track50 that does similar alerts, but it requires you to manually enter the bands you are interested in - something that changes far too frequently for me to make that service useful (and it continually thinks I'm in New York City... which I'm not).
Now, if I could only motivate myself to start going to shows again....
If I still went to a lot of shows (ah... the good ole days), this would be an indespensible tool. If I didn't have this set up, I'm guessing that I would have never known about this show until it was too late. There is another service called Track50 that does similar alerts, but it requires you to manually enter the bands you are interested in - something that changes far too frequently for me to make that service useful (and it continually thinks I'm in New York City... which I'm not).
Now, if I could only motivate myself to start going to shows again....
Sunday, December 31, 2006
I aaaaam Iron Man (da na naa na naa na na na naaa naaa naaa)
I came across this personality quiz that tells you which superhero you are most similar to. Here I am...
Your results:
You are Iron Man
Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...
What are you?
Your results:
You are Iron Man
| Inventor. Businessman. Genius. |
Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...
What are you?
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Virb - Yet Another Music Network
Mashable has a story on Virb...
Coming from the makers of PureVolume, there’s also a strong musical element: a download called Virbtunes works like MOG or Last.fm, tracking the music you listen to in iTunes and making recommendations. And just like on MySpace, bands also have special pages from which you can grab tracks to populate a player on your own profile.
It's hard to fathom yet another network, but the folks at Unborn Media have done some really nice things with PureVolume (particularly with their design and UI). So, while it may have a hard time convincing anyone to switch (or create yet another profile) - I'm sure it will at least be one of the better looking ones.
Coming from the makers of PureVolume, there’s also a strong musical element: a download called Virbtunes works like MOG or Last.fm, tracking the music you listen to in iTunes and making recommendations. And just like on MySpace, bands also have special pages from which you can grab tracks to populate a player on your own profile.
It's hard to fathom yet another network, but the folks at Unborn Media have done some really nice things with PureVolume (particularly with their design and UI). So, while it may have a hard time convincing anyone to switch (or create yet another profile) - I'm sure it will at least be one of the better looking ones.
Monday, December 25, 2006
Mugshot.org: Another Personal Feed Aggregator
Check out Mugshot (from the folks at Red Hat). It is very similar in function to what the AIM folks are doing with AIM Buddy Updates (and others like Suprglu). It's got a nice interface, is easy to use, and for us music freaks - it even includes some nice embeddable "now playing" widgets (pulling from Audioscrobbler/Last.fm). I had some trouble getting the live widget to work, so here's a screenshot of one of the many themes...
Mashapalooza - All Crazy Style
Ah, the beauty of the open web... Last.fm has benefited as much as anyone in the proliferation of sites that leverage their APIs. Yesterday I talked about Last.tv, and today I added another one to my sidebar. AllCrazyStyle.com is simple, but useful for live music fans. It looks at who you listen to (from Last.fm) and which of those artists are playing in your area (from Upcoming.org) and returns a feed of matches. Yeah, Last.fm has added events recently too, but it doesn't yet appear to be exposed as a feed. So until that time, AllCrazyStyle seems to fit my bill.
I've then taken that feed an added it to my AOL Alerts - now any change to the feed will send an alert to my both via AIM and SMS.
I've then taken that feed an added it to my AOL Alerts - now any change to the feed will send an alert to my both via AIM and SMS.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Last.tv - the YouTube/Last.fm Mashup
I love this concept (although I'm not much of a music video watcher) - it is a mashup of YouTube and Last.fm. Basically, it builds your own personal music video channel based on artists you like (pulled from your Last.fm profile). Others have done similar things by bouncing your Now Playing information up against the YouTube library to find videos from that artist - but this is more of a continuous experience. It will string together a continuous playlist of music videos from artists you have listened to before (or your musical "neighbors" have listened to).
last.tv
last.tv
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Gaining Momentum - Music 2.0 Wiki
Wow, what started as a combination of Paul Lamere's idea for a wiki, and my ever growing list of companies/services, has obviously hit a sweet spot.
Some great coverage over at The Digital Music Weblog....
I'm going to be on vacation over the holidays, but I'm going to try and spend some time (by the pool) adding to the wiki and building some templates. Please... any/all ideas are welcome.
Some great coverage over at The Digital Music Weblog....
I'm going to be on vacation over the holidays, but I'm going to try and spend some time (by the pool) adding to the wiki and building some templates. Please... any/all ideas are welcome.
Pandora Gets Profiled
Pandora is ramping up their community - as they and Last.fm continue on their paths towards each other's feature sets (or, if you can't wait then check out the Pandora/Last.fm Mashup from Real-ity). Specifically, they have now included:
Listener Profiles: Now you can use Pandora to maintain a complete description of your musical preferences, a kind of musical biography, and share it with the world. Just click the "Pandora Community" button above the player, select "View Your Profile," and tell the world a little about yourself and the music you love.
Listener Search: Find other Pandora listeners that share your musical tastes, hometown, school, or place of work. Explore their favorites songs and artists, listen to their stations, and leave them comments. Even bookmark them so you can check what they're into later. Just click the "Pandora Community" button and select "Find other Listeners" to get started.
Artist "Fans": Browse profiles for other folks that are listening to each band we play. Just click the "more about the music" button above the player, search for a favorite artist or song page, and start exploring. Or once you've made a station, find other people listening to similar stations by clicking the little triangle next to your station's name in the player and selecting "Find Other Fans of this Artist".
Station Search: Search a universe of listener-created stations... looking for "Electro Goth"? no problem. "Romantic music"? yep. You name it, someone out there has probably built a station around it. Build a 'station page' for each of your stations to ensure that your own creations show up in the search results. When you find a station you love, leave the stations creator a comment on their station page.
They are actually also, like Finetune, coming at personal broadcasting from the angle of.... "you tell us what you like, we create the station, you embed/syndicate it". I can only think that the Labels are watching this very closely as the definition of "interactivity" of the DMCA gets tested.
Listener Profiles: Now you can use Pandora to maintain a complete description of your musical preferences, a kind of musical biography, and share it with the world. Just click the "Pandora Community" button above the player, select "View Your Profile," and tell the world a little about yourself and the music you love.
Listener Search: Find other Pandora listeners that share your musical tastes, hometown, school, or place of work. Explore their favorites songs and artists, listen to their stations, and leave them comments. Even bookmark them so you can check what they're into later. Just click the "Pandora Community" button and select "Find other Listeners" to get started.
Artist "Fans": Browse profiles for other folks that are listening to each band we play. Just click the "more about the music" button above the player, search for a favorite artist or song page, and start exploring. Or once you've made a station, find other people listening to similar stations by clicking the little triangle next to your station's name in the player and selecting "Find Other Fans of this Artist".
Station Search: Search a universe of listener-created stations... looking for "Electro Goth"? no problem. "Romantic music"? yep. You name it, someone out there has probably built a station around it. Build a 'station page' for each of your stations to ensure that your own creations show up in the search results. When you find a station you love, leave the stations creator a comment on their station page.
They are actually also, like Finetune, coming at personal broadcasting from the angle of.... "you tell us what you like, we create the station, you embed/syndicate it". I can only think that the Labels are watching this very closely as the definition of "interactivity" of the DMCA gets tested.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Amazon to Sell Unprotected MP3s
Hypebot broke a story about how Amazon has decided (again) to enter the digital music sales arena. What's different? They are going the eMusic route and said to be focused exclusively on unprotected MP3s. For what it's worth, I applaud this approach. As a conspiracy theorist, I'm now wondering whether the rumors that eMusic may be for sale is related to this story. It would be a great way for Amazon to jump start their entrance into this market. And, by focusing on DRM-less MP3s, they can bundle/subsidize virtually any portable device (including iPod) that they want with this....
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Wiki, Wiki, Wiki - Music 2.0
I decided to go ahead and start a "Music 2.0 Directory" over on Wetpaint - since my tagroll of companies is growing so fast. It is a wiki, so everyone please jump in and start adding your companies. I've only really built out the framework right now, but let's see what we can do with it.
http://music2dot0.wetpaint.com/
If it starts to take off, I'll get a proper domain for it and clean it up a little. Ready, set.... go!
http://music2dot0.wetpaint.com/
If it starts to take off, I'll get a proper domain for it and clean it up a little. Ready, set.... go!
More on Buddy Feed/Updates
I was showing some people the other day how you can leverage some of the new features of AIM 6.0, in conjuction with a bunch of other personal feeds, to do some cool things. So, I figured I'm memorialize it so other could do the same.
Below, I'm showing what the Buddy Updates feature does (see post below). Basically, users enter all of their personal feeds into their Buddy Update Settings. All of the feeds then get aggreatated and spliced. AIM goes out an polls these feeds every 30 minutes or so. If something new has been added, it lights up the "i" icon next to your name as it appears on the buddy list.
Below, I'm showing what the Buddy Updates feature does (see post below). Basically, users enter all of their personal feeds into their Buddy Update Settings. All of the feeds then get aggreatated and spliced. AIM goes out an polls these feeds every 30 minutes or so. If something new has been added, it lights up the "i" icon next to your name as it appears on the buddy list.
When you friends click on that icon, it launches the Buddy Profile window (below) - that displays all of the recent updates.
Now, the coolest part for music lovers is bringing in the combination of my Last.fm "Just Played" feed and leveraging the AIM Gadgets plug-in bundle. The most useful of which is the "myPlaylist" plug-in - which will screen scrape the Now Playing information out of iTunes and/or Winamp and display it in your Buddy Profile window. So, the AIM plug-in handles what you are listening to in real-time, and the Last.fm feed provides a historical reference of what I listened to prior (since it doesn't Last.fm's feed isn't updated until the song is over).
Try it out. Personally, I think it is one of the best features of the new AIM client.
Another option is Sigamp. They have plug-ins for many popular media players - and they basically do something similar to the "myPlaylist" plug-in. They pull now playing info, then feed it into an image that can be easily be put into email signatures, blogs, etc.
A nice touch is that Sigamp links this metadata back to Rhapsody. So if you want to listen to what I'm listening to, just click it. Then leverage Rhapsody's 25 free tracks/month feature to see what you think.
My problem with Sigamp is that they don't have an image that will fit into my sidebar, and they charge a monthly fee for any other/better image design. Personally, I'd rather have a small text ad as an option.
I love having music related information in my email signature. But I opt to burn a feed of my Top Artists (I get mine from Music Now, but you could get them from Last.fm, MyStrands or a host of others) with FeedBurner, then use their "Headline Animator" to create an animated GIF of that feed. Whenever you get an email from me, you will see a scrolling image of my most listened to artists of late.
I didn't mean for this to be such a novel, but hopefully some of you will find it interesting and useful. Any other ideas? I'd love to hear them.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Buddy Feed + 30 Boxes = Timeline
Not sure who has seen this yet, but if you populate your AIM buddy feed with enough inputs, then dump it into 30 Boxes (www.30boxes.com), you can get a pretty nice timeline of your day.
For those that haven't used AIM's Buddy Update feature yet, I recommend it. It's basically a feed splicer (mine includes my Last.fm Just Played, Flickr, Blogger posts, YouTube and Delicious). When you update something, your buddies (that use AIM 6.0) will see an "i" icon light up next your name in the buddy list. By clicking it, they will see all of your updates.
Just check out the "View Timeline" badge towards the bottom of the sidebar.
The other one to try is www.mytimelines.net, although I've had trouble getting that to embed properly on Blogger.
For those that haven't used AIM's Buddy Update feature yet, I recommend it. It's basically a feed splicer (mine includes my Last.fm Just Played, Flickr, Blogger posts, YouTube and Delicious). When you update something, your buddies (that use AIM 6.0) will see an "i" icon light up next your name in the buddy list. By clicking it, they will see all of your updates.
Just check out the "View Timeline" badge towards the bottom of the sidebar.
The other one to try is www.mytimelines.net, although I've had trouble getting that to embed properly on Blogger.
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