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July 16, 2008
MarketWatch.com – Please Fix Your Firefox Support
Note to Marketwatch.com – sometime yesterday (7/15/2008), your support for Firefox went awry, now your site looks like the picture below. Please fix. Thanks.
Posted by davehod at 12:59 PM | Comments (0)
The Raconteurs Get What Prince Does Not
I received the following email from The Raconteurs today:
We are in the process of creating a live section of our website and need your assistance. We’ll have different areas where you can view video footage and photos from tour dates as well as hear select audio for some shows.
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Here’s where we need your help, we’ve been scouring youtube for some video content that fans have shot at past shows and we’ll be adding some of that footage to the site. If you have footage you haven’t yet added to youtube please add it and feel free to send a link to the video for review to livevideo@theraconteurs.com , be sure to include show date, venue, city name and video credit.
Jack White and company understand the value of their fans recording content and making it available on YouTube. Their aim isn’t to necessarily sell more records (recall that this is the band that broke all the rules for their most recent album, Consolers of the Lonely), it is to bring in people to their live shows.
Contrast this with how Prince handles his fans, and the differences couldn’t be more stark. Can you imagine Prince emailing his fan base and asking “If you have footage you haven’t yet added to youtube please add it…”?
Posted by davehod at 12:47 PM | Comments (0)
July 08, 2008
Last.fm/Squeezebox Team Up
I received an excellent piece of news from SlimDevices today – support for Last.fm scrobbling from the Squeezebox. (Doubtful that my post had anything to do with it)
It was simple to enable and is currently working like a charm as I listen to the new My Morning Jacket.
Posted by davehod at 01:35 PM | Comments (0)
July 02, 2008
Great EC2/S3 Tool
(cross-posted to the BaconMarathon blog)
Tim Kay of ActiveBuddy fame has been working on aws, which he says provides “simple access to Amazon EC2 and S3”. I ran into Tim a while ago and we chatted about aws – around the same time, I also heard about it from Mike.
As all the BaconMarathon apps are running on EC2 and using S3 for storage, I’ve been looking for an easier way to interface with S3 in particular. I finally got around to trying out aws the other day and found it be more than advertised. Finally, I had one simple command to examine buckets on S3:
aws ls
That was it. Creating buckets, puts and gets are just as simple:
aws mkdir BUCKET
aws put BUCKET/[OBJECT] [FILE]
aws get BUCKET
We’re now using aws to push our MySQL backups to S3 on a scheduled basis – a simple change to our existing backup jobs.
Posted by davehod at 02:38 PM | Comments (0)
July 01, 2008
Live: The Latest BaconMarathon App
Mike has a post up about our latest BaconMarathon app, a widget for iTunes.
It rolled out live today with our first customer, Heidi Roizen and the folks at Skinny Songs.
Posted by davehod at 01:41 PM | Comments (0)