Just this evening the Committee had their first conference call and it actually might look as if the framework might come back from the dead. What is even better is that it might actually become a better more developer friendly framework.

Out of the closest competitors to Ezmo I guess it was Anywhere.FM who really made it, they got swallowed by Imeem just a few months after launching.

It seems like subscription based services like Spotify are catching on, but to me those services are more about music consumtion than music collection. In my opinnion there is still room for services which provide a way for music collectors to enjoy music digitally whereever they may reside. Maybe it’s me being an old fart, but I like to have some piece of music I can call my own in the sense that it’s my collection…

I wish my Swedish friends in Spotify all the best and I hope they can sit at Steve Jobs’s table and turn down a 30 billion dollar offer

UPDATE!

Not even the record industry themselves are capabel of creating music services which last over time. This week Sony BMG and Universal Music’s joint venture TotalMusic had to shut down. Aparently they had some of the same problems as the other services mentioned here and this makes you wonder if this really is an industry that’s worth saving or if they should just die as a result of their own incompetence.

One such jerk off session resulted in what they have called Three-Tier RIA Application Scenario. It has more patterns than Paris Hilton has bags. I guess this is what happens when someone with an engineering degree tries to explain in simple words what goes arround in their head.

The recording industry is no big fan of YouTube and how they loose control of distribution of their artists music videos. Perhaps they trust MTV instead of Google to be their distribution channel of choice in the “new” world of the Internet.  We have all seen crappy versions of classic music videos on YouTube and we’ve gotten used to watching videos in poor quality in tiny boxes. This is great news for those who have invested a lot of money in expensive hardware for listening to music from their computer, they can now enjoy good qulity video.

I love that I can now watch classics like the one below in good quality in the comfort of my own computer. I still love my MTV!

Those of you who speak Norwegian can enjoy my blog “her er mitt arbeid” and for those of you who do not speak Norwegian you can check out the Google translation.

I started off writing some technical documentation and found the word processor to do the job. I could insert images and format lists which is basically all I would do for any document. What is missing is more short cut keys and some other minor things, but all in all I thought the service was cool. I haven’t gotten the chance to try the collaboration features yet, which really is one of the coolest features in Google Doc’s.

Anyway, while I was writing my document I had to spend some quality time catching up on my RSS feeds. When I went back to Buzzword it had a really nice surprise for me which really shows how one simple design on a feature shows that a company “gets it”. What usually is an annoying feature that you don’t want to see was transformed into something cute and unexpected. Just look at the screenshot below, there is no way you can be angry for having to log back in when you get prompted this image.