Archive for May 12th, 2004

KEXP wins a Webby

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KEXP, the second best radio station in the world (after WWOZ in New Orleans, IMHO), has won a Webby award. Nice to know they recognize quality when they see it.

In addition to playing a really wide variety of independent music (the DJs really are in control of what they play), KEXP features many formats of streaming (including uncompressed full-bandwidth audio), real time playlists going out to the web (allowing me to answer those questions like “what was that song I heard while I was driving home last night?”), an archive of the last two weeks of all broadcasts, and a permanent archive of lots of live performances in the studio.

Kudos to KEXP for the great work they continue to do!

The future of tablet PCs?

Julia Lerman points out this interesting post from the Microsoft Watch site speculating that the future of Microsoft’s marketing of the tablet PC is not clear.

At WinHEC, Microsoft execs almost went so far as to admit that the company is now resigned to positioning Tablet functionality as just another notebook computer feature. (Or, if you prefer the Microsoft spin on this, for the Tablet PC to “assimilate” the mobile PC segment.)

Company officials claim this was Microsoft’s vision all along. But tell that to the Tablet PC OEMs, channel partners and software developers who have been working to build businesses around the Tablet as a differentiator. Many were counting on Microsoft to push the Tablet as a whole new kind of computer, not just a collection of whizzy add-on functionality.

Says one: “The retreat is serious. We’ll be (moving) into the ‘Tablet as all’ and ‘All as Tablet’ (phase) within five to ten years. It’s like a plan to shoot itself in the head.”

There’s other evidence that the Tablet is on increasingly shaky ground, at least marketing-wise.


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