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When I started building my mashups with PHP one idea I had was to fetch audio previews for songs and albums, this was actually supposedly possible with the Amazon Product Advertising API, but I could never get it to work with the limited data I had in my csv file. Last.fm does not provide audio [...]

Lost among all the glossy photos of the new iPhone, Apple quietly announce the closure and failure of Ping, their social network targeting music fans. Ping was built into iTunes and thus only accessible when you were using iTunes on your computer or other Apple device. Apple famously integrated Twitter more tightly into iOS as they [...]

She has been talking about buying one for many months. They showed her the exact car she ended up buying in September. It took a long time for my mom to realize just how much money she would need to spend and how little she would get in trade-in for the last car she bought. [...]

I’ve been waiting for iTunes Match since before the project had a name.  Then I had to wait even longer because I’m Canadian.  iTunes Match combined with iCloud was supposed to allow you to store your entire music collection online so you could access it anywhere. The early iPods had actual hard drives in them [...]

Recently Gowalla was bought by Facebook.  I immediately said the user accounts would be merged, users would be forced to transfer to Facebook and Gowalla would be shut down.  Turns out I was partially correct.  Some people on Twitter were happy for the founders of Gowalla as they made some money selling out to Facebook [...]