Its a good thing the deal for Amergence to buy SonicMountain fell through, as Amergence were the company that created that Sony DRM software that lead to a huge debacle.
Plenty of speculation on the internet as to what happened, and a lawsuit between Jack Roken and SonicMountain, ooh the mystery, lets just hope things work out groovy and SonicMountain have enough resources to do something useful with Odeo and fireant. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], Steve Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah memories. > > It was an amazing time. being able to watch everyone else's video > back then. > > Every... single... video... that everyone else made. > > Working with Daniel Salber on FireAnt for the Mac was a great > experience. New features and bug fixes that I suggested were always > implemented quickly. > > Being able to work that closely with a developer was lots of fun. > > Sadly the Macintosh development didn't keep up with the PC > development and I ended up dropping FireAnt and moving to Miro. > > During this period, my Mac crashed and I ended up starting over and > subscribing to fewer feeds. > > What's happening now is that I only subscribe to about 13 RSS 2.0 > feeds with media enclosures. Others I subscribe to, but go watch online. > > I find many new videos via Twitter, Email, IM and Facebook. > > Another thing I frequently talked to Jay about was getting the > ability to be able to see what others using Fireant were subscribed > to, and beyond that, see what videos they liked or recommended. > > That feature would have been cool. > > Good luck with Odeo Josh. I'm interested in seeing what happens. > > --Steve > http://stevegarfield.com > > On Sep 14, 2007, at 5:56 AM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: > > > When we first launched "ANTs Not TV" at Vloggercon in January 2005, > > there were about 20 active videobloggers we knew each of them > > personally and worked with most of them to create those magical RSS > > feeds with enclosures. It was amazing to see all these video channels > > updating over time and to watch them in a unified experience. There > > was nothing else like it. It was clear that something powerful was > > happening. It was a new kind of television, and yet it was not like TV > > at all it was open to anyone and the possibilities seemed endless. > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
