Rob Brogana web journal

I obviously spend a load of time on the computer too. Here’s a summary of what I’ve been looking at.

Spotify

This is a music platform similar to iTunes, and you can import files from your old library or elsewhere:

It only plays DRM free songs (logically) and it’s ad-supported. The ads let you browse their online library for free though, so that’s pretty great. Personally I’m still using iTunes for most listening, but it has a feature that I don’t see many other places and that’s music sharing.

Not just any music sharing, but extremely easy and fast sharing. I can right-click on a track and tweet a link to it or post it on my Facebook. Unfortunately the link is only accessible to people who have the program and since it’s only a European thing (for now), I don’t have many people to share with.

The best best BEST part is when you click and send it to a friend. Because it integrates with Facebook, Spotify lists all the people on Facebook that you’re friends with who have this program. Then when they open the program they’ll see a little update in their “inbox.” It’s an inbox purely for music. Awesome for sharing new stuff.

If I had a pro account (which I won’t get, because hey this is the internet, who said anything about paying for things?) then I could sync it with my no-longer-existent iPhone. I could listen to all my music and other people’s music anywhere with internet and not take up space on the phone. A decent idea, and a fair offer for people who spend money online.

Well, I have been enjoying this light Air App on my laptop for skimming the NYTimes.

You can subscribe for it here: https://timesreader.nytimes.com

I’m not sure what the deal is, but I got a trial for free and it still works. Take a look around mine:

I’m sure there’s more I could share but I’ll keep it short. Have anything interesting for me to play with? Comment it!

(Oh, I currently have invitations for Paprika if anyone wants an extremely simple, web “notepad” of sorts with a markup language for tags and check boxes, etc.)