Aritsts prefer apps over itunes LP. I’m not surprised. I gotta say when I first saw itunes LP last summer I was underwhelmed and didn’t see how that was going to change anything.

Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What?
By Paul Bonanos Mar. 9, 2010, 12:00am PST 5 Comments

When it was first unveiled, Apple’s new iTunes LP format -– codenamed “Cocktail” and introduced at a “rock and roll event” in San Francisco -– promised to give consumers a new reason to buy albums instead of individual songs. Offering expanded cover art, lyrics, videos, animation and other digital goodies, iTunes LP was intended to evoke the feeling of spinning an LP record and holding the jacket in your hands. Especially when paired with a tablet computer (then rumored, now real) that would provide a new way to view large-format art, consumers were promised a digital experience that mimicked a physical one.

Six months later, however, iTunes LP doesn’t prompt much consumer recognition, and none of the industry sources with whom I spoke said they viewed it as being anywhere close to game-changing from a format perspective. Rather, it’s considered more of a curiosity. Like an enhanced CD or a DVD packaged with a physical album, iTunes LP’s bonus materials may interest super-fans, but they aren’t generating much buzz among mainstream consumers, and don’t appear to be stimulating LP sales at all. “It’s something most people will look at once,” is how one person put it.
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I have been hearing about ChatRoulette all week and decided to check it out. If you haven’t heard about this site it is a random chat generator that connects you to a random stranger via webcam. You click NEXT to stop chatting and move on to the next one, and keep bouncing to new chat users as long as you want. What I had heard about it though is that there were a LOT of guy’s showing their junk on their webcams and like a lot of things on the internet, it was kind of a place to troll for nudity. Well, whatever. People kept talking about it so I wanted to check it out. BUT I thought it would be more interesting to go on not as me, but instead start chatting as the almighty BATMAN!

Batman has more to say anyway. So there he was, Batman, chat roulette-ing with the masses. Here is what we found:

- 1 out of 10 users will actually talk to Batman
- 2 out of 10 users are drunk/stoned college/high school kids
- 5 out of 10 users are masturbating (almost all guys)
- 9 out of 10 users are looking to find someone masturbating
- 3 out of 10 users are either sitting in total darkness or have their cameras blocked

Sound fun? Not so much. The only fun Batman and I had is when someone actually smiled and started to chat with Batman. We told them Robin put us up to this and we were grossed out because we think we saw the Riddler’s junk. Ew. The masturbating thing I don’t get (which is probably a good thing). There was nothing sexy about this and since we’re on the internet folks, I’m sure you can find SOMETHING better to make yourself happy than crappy webcams of weird dudes strokin’ it.

One highlight was when we got to chat with Spiderman. He popped up, did not get naked, and gave us a thumbs up. Sweet!

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Photoshop has been a part of every web designer’s life since they picked up their first mouse.

On February 10th, 2010, Photoshop turns twenty. To mark this anniversary, we’ve come up with an article that takes you through the evolution of Photoshop from its modest beginnings as a bundled program sold with scanners to its current version.

For each version and major feature listed, we couldn’t help but think “did Photoshop ever exist without that feature?”.

Some of the minor details are fun too, such as the one-liner Easter Eggs that Photoshop developers hid in some versions and the fact that the most current versions of Adobe Photoshop CS are equipped with anti-counterfeiting measures for multiple world currencies.

Please join us in thanking the Knolls and Adobe for making all of our lives more awesome, every day.

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I came across this today from the band OK Go regarding YouTube and the music biz in 2010. It’s very interesting and worth a read. You can find the original posting on OK Go’s message board:

To the people of the world, from OK Go:

This week we released a new album, and it’s our best yet. We also released a new video – the second for this record – for a song called This Too Shall Pass, and you can watch it here. We hope you’ll like it and comment on it and pass the link along to your friends and do that wonderful thing that that you do when you’re fond of something, share it. We want you to stick it on your web page, post it on your wall, and embed it everywhere you can think of.

Unfortunately, as of now you can’t embed diddlycrap. And depending on where you are in the world, you might not even be able to watch it.

We’ve been flooded with complaints recently because our YouTube videos can’t be embedded on websites, and in certain countries can’t be seen at all. And we want you to know: we hear you, and we’re sorry. We wish there was something we could do. Believe us, we want you to pass our videos around more than you do, but, crazy as it may seem, it’s now far harder for bands to make videos accessible online than it was four years ago. Read the rest of this entry »

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