Gooogle – OneBox, Many Beats, More Profit

Right.
Reading the Beeb News again (the source of many a good story) and learn that Google is getting into the online music market with the launch of OneBox, an alliance with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike.
When users search using OneBox, a pop-up widget powered by iLike or Lala offers to play the entire song.
Interesting [...]

SOUND DESIGN LECTURE

These are the notes on a lecture we gave on sound design, pitched at animation students.

HISTORY OF SOUND DESIGN:

In motion picture production, a Sound Designer is a member of a film crew responsible for some original aspect of the film’s audio track.
The terms “Sound Design” and “Sound Designer” were already in use in theatre and [...]

Everything’s Public & Visible on Facebook II

We had posted about Privacy concerns on Facebook earlier this year.  It seems that this debate has started again, though it may have come from unfounded sources.
There was an invitation floating around Facebook some time back, asking if we wanted to install and run ‘Facebook Premium’.  This has been blogged by early adopters and geek [...]

MySpace Acquires iLike

We wrote before on the ailing health of MySpace.  It seems that this week they have taken measures to confront their loss of network share, and get back to doing what they do best (music) with the acquisition of music discovery service iLike.
According to the beeb:
‘iLike reportedly turned down an offer from rival Facebook, where [...]