Google has a big media event today to roll out its music streaming service. Details aren’t yet known.
Back when Google was younger, they dabbled with radio advertising – they built a service to allow radio stations to sell their unused ad time and google would handle lining up the advertisers similarly to how Adwords works on the web – it folded pretty quickly – not everything Google touches turns to gold
http://m.cnet.com/news/google-io-2013-join-us-wednesday-live-blog/57584310
They might catch up the the new Myspace Radio. Have you heard it yet? It’s actually pretty good. http://www.myspace.com/guide/radio?pm_cmp=ed_footer
Justin Timberlake, who has an ownership stake in the company, is behind much of this new myspace.
Android has 900 million activations. Google is looking to bring the next 4.5 billion online
New API called geofencing – cross inside a boundary, the API will know and can do stuff
Cross platform single user signon
(the speech is available on YouTube live streaming)
Google Cloud Messaging is sending 17 billion mags/day
New location service that only consumes 1% power per hour
Player API to save game state in the cloud so it doesn’t matter which device you’re using (including iOS devices) – gaming demo failed – WiFi in a room with 1000s of people in the room tends to have issues
Lots of oohs and aahs from developers
Translation service for app developers
Integrated beta testing and staged rollout (ooh, aah)
Gosh…. I don’t think mySpace can do any of that. Perhaps Friendster? š
Time to talk about music… First updates to the Google Play Store
“the joy of music is universal”. [silence]
(This is a developer conference – the audience isn’t interested in this)
“All Access will create magic moments” [total silence]
Host is recapping the presentation
Google is going to sell the Samsung s4 completely unlocked for only $649 [total silence]
…” āthe joy of music is universalā. [silence]
(This is a developer conference ā the audience isnāt interested in this)
āAll Access will create magic momentsā [total silence]”
LOL
Dorks.
I will try Justin timberlake then, if it dosn’t require a bunch o’ sheet to load on your computer. Cause since you show up at SRG, you can get audited by the IRS .
Parrott
Parrot, If you have a wardrobe malfunction, please don’t post the pictures here – this is a family oriented site. š
Parrott – On a serious note, I do recommend free app – no commercials and lets you store favorites. I use it with the free “skin” that expands the size of the app to show more stations but that is unnecessary. It doesn’t show radio programs the way Art does, but it has a really nice UI and is free.
http://www.radiosure.com/
I don’t think I’ve ever said this is a family oriented site – in fact if any children are reading this, go away.
LOL, OK, I won’t post any pics, CC !
Parrott
Google Music will cost $9.95 a month, but you can get it for $7.95 if you sign up before June 20th
mySpace music is free but ironically, they don’t have a space program.
It’s not your space, it’s not my space:
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/tech-report-blog/googles-got-space-program
“I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud”
—-M. Jagger/K. Richards
Maybe we should wait for the Timberlake to start a radio service here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/10063498/Rupert-Murdoch-warns-Facebook-faces-same-fate-as-MySpace.html
A side note: Amazon, on the Kindle Fire, has been experimenting with speech (circumventing Audible.com (they SUCK)). The e-published books that didn’t get picked up by a mainstream brick and mortar publisher have come with a free speech option. Several of the shorter mystery / thrillers I have purchased have with option. It has the typical mechanical sound – they preselected a female voice and the program stumbles over Latin and french. I kind of thought we would have gotten the speech recognition and computer ‘speaking’ down by now. The probable drain on the typical PCs resources is holding the process back. Thoughtful, intelligent speech can be complex.
Google and the iPhone are getting fairly good. If you call my google voice number, it emails a transcript of the voicemail to me (and the underground bunker in Utah). The message today from office depot started with”Hey Baby” and I got all excited – what they actually said was “good day”
Google is very much taking context in its guessing – kind of like they do with predictive search. It knows women frequently call me and say “hey baby”
If google had their webspider crawling this blog, they’d know kids are not welcome and not sent you any more messages with baby references. š
HPaws, Have you checked out your public library yet? They offer free books from Amazon.com for you to download to your Kindle Fire or Kindle reader on Android or Windows (probably for Apple too, but I don’t own any Apple products to know).
You search for the books 24/7 on a URL that your library provides, log in with your free library card then click on the custom Amazon link it generates for you.
Exactly the same as the ones you buy yourself, except these are bought by you and your neighbors with your property taxes. The good news is you will never get a late fine. The bad news is that after about 4 weeks, the book will disappear from your Kindle unless you extend it or check it out again.
I used this type of service from the library in CT once – it’s kind of an odd concept. Public libraries and publishers have an odd relationship. A very old copyright decision set the principle that a copyright holder can’t prohibit pass along reading of a book. The book being a tangible item can only be one place at a time, and passing it along isn’t making copies, but the copyright holder is only paid for the first use.
So the electronic services mimic that – limiting the checkout of the book to only what the library physically owns despite it being an all digital download.
http://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/bm%7Edoc/lca-tp-firstsale18jan13.pdf