Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know...

DC folk - lock up your daughters, wives and girlfriends.

Smackie arrives tomorrow night….

vansmack wrote:
DC folk - lock up your daughters, wives and girlfriends.

Smackie arrives tomorrow night….

Oh, brother! You know what they say about all talk…, Mr. Smackette.  :D

Anyway, welcome to the future.

Jaguar wrote:

Oh, brother! You know what they say about all talk…, Mr. Smackette.  :D

Anyway, welcome to the future.

Remember how cool I was before I got married?  Damn….

All men watch porn, scientists find

Researchers were conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography with regular users.

But their project stumbled at the first hurdle when they failed to find a single man who had not been seen it.

?We started our research seeking men in their 20s who had never consumed pornography,? said Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse. ?We couldn't find any.?

since this is now the unofficial digital media discussion thread….

Lala was purchased by Apple.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/technology/companies/05apple.html?_r=1

ugh this means lala will only become a front end to iTMS store  :P  and another alternative for legally streaming could go by the wayside.  Bring on Spotify!

kosmo wrote:
since this is now the unofficial digital media discussion thread….

Lala was purchased by Apple.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/technology/companies/05apple.html?_r=1

ugh this means lala will only become a front end to iTMS store  :P  and another alternative for legally streaming could go by the wayside.   Bring on Spotify!

Wow.  I'm going to have to give some thought to this….

All reports in the Valley are that it was done on the cheap.  Extremely cheap.  I don't know baout the payment system stuff though.

APPLE CONFIRMS AQUISITION OF LALA

Apple has acquired struggling streaming music service Lala, an Apple spokesman told CNET News on Sunday.

Apple spokesman Steve Dowling confirmed the acquisition but did not disclose the terms of the deal or what the company intends to do with the 4-year-old Lala. The company scans users' hard drives and creates a duplicate music library that owners can access from Web-enabled devices. The company also sells songs for a dime each.

CNET News reported Friday that Apple was close to finalizing the sale and that one of the reasons Apple was interested in acquiring Lala is to obtain some of the company's payment and fulfillment systems, which a source with knowledge of the talks said could save Apple money.

However, it's unclear whether Apple may also be planning to launch some kind of streaming-music or so-called cloud storage feature.

The New York Times reported that Apple was approached by Lala after the company concluded that reaching profitability was unlikely. All Things Digital reported that Lala was acquired for a sum that meant a loss for its investors.

If things keep going this way, pretty soon there won't be any digital music space to cover. Many of the players around a year ago are gone: Ruckus and SpiralFrog closed. MySpace is gobbling up iLike and soon Imeem. Apple got Lala.

The frontrunners now appear to be Pandora, Amazon, Spotify, MySpace Music, Last.fm (owned by CBS, parent company of CNET) and Zune's Marketplace.

To this point, not one of them has generated the kind of market share to challenge iTunes.

not attesting to the accuracy of this but its related so thought I'd post

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091207/lalas-fire-sale-that-wasnt-what-apple-really-paid/

Here's Ross Rubin's (from Engadget) take on the Lala acquisition, if you can get through what might be the worst edited article I've ever read on Engadget:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/switched-on-apples-song-remains-the-same/

imeem GONE redirects to something called MySpace

F$%& the haters, this is brilliant:

Don't Stand So Close to Me/Young Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VY0a1vZYyY

vansmack wrote:
F$%& the haters, this is brilliant:

Don't Stand So Close to Me/Young Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VY0a1vZYyY

Glee is rapidly becoming boring, the characters are all annoying, the story line predictable and the songs are more than miss than hit.  The rendition of "Imagine" was top notch, but "Jump" had all the life sucked out of it.

kosmo wrote:
Glee is rapidly becoming boring, the characters are all annoying, the story line predictable and the songs are more than miss than hit.  The rendition of "Imagine" was top notch, but "Jump" had all the life sucked out of it.

I'm actually like 7 episode's behind and most everybody I now who watches the show has told me things similar to what you are saying here.  I'll still watch it and let you know.

Ben Folds - the hipsters must be going nuts this morning revoking his cred.

vansmack wrote:
Ben Folds - the hipsters must be going nuts this morning revoking his cred.

Ben Folds hasn't been "hip" in years…

kosmo wrote:
Ben Folds hasn't been "hip" in years…

The last thing you have to be in order to be a favorite of hipsters is hip.

What do you mean?

vansmack wrote:

kosmo wrote:
Ben Folds hasn't been "hip" in years…

The last thing you have to be in order to be a favorite of hipsters is hip.

This just hurts….a home WiMAx modem before I even have service in my area….



Don't they know who I am?  I'm th guy who built a home router for use with my 3G data card to give the finger to at&t and comcast 3 YEARS AGO.  They should be rewarding me, not punishing me…

nkotb wrote:
What do you mean?

Case.  Rested.

But all in all, I enjoyed The Sing-Off.  Things were cruising along at a slow pace until the Beelzebubs took it to the next level. (about 2:30 in)

I seriously doubt Ben Folds has much of a hipster following at this point in his career and I'm guessin' that his current fan base is gonna eat an acapella singing contest up.