iofy has a subscription to the O’Reilly Safari. It allows complete online access to O’Reilly’s entire line of books, as well as books they still have in the works. As a tech company, we thrive on this.

Lately I’ve hooked up bookmarks on my iPhone to titles I like. At any time, a single …

My dev team is prepping the release of our REST / RSS / JavaScript based account management this week. It marks the completion of building, then harnessing, a suite of RESTful RSS 2.0 feed based web services. The idea has been “avoid people wasting time, working on stuff they suck at focus developers …

Kevin Schelkun finished the first in a series of how-to videos for iofy’s new hardware player. Check it out and see how easy it is… 30 seconds. The video makes me want to find one and listen to something.…

We’ve recently done work harnessing our iofy RESTful web services in JavaScript, especially the account management sections. Typically, in old-school fashion, an account management system is done server side with PHP, PERL, Ruby, etc, interacting with a database.

<sarcasm>That’s great when you want your heavy hitting developers to do design work or when you want …

Wow, what a week to be in the media industry. Yesterday with Amazon picking up Audible, and today with Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo!. It’s consolidation-for-growth time.

Audible is Apple’s provider for Audiobooks. Having Amazon, a primary competitor to Apple, pick up the company makes for some interesting times ahead of us. Will Apple …

Cart sent me a link to Matt Tucker‘s latest blog entry over at Jive Software, ”XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services.” Matt is right. Cloud architectures and large systems are moving away from the current HTTP / web services integration.

Monstrous servers and clusters banging on each other, effectively pulling …

The recent debates about Twitter’s performance has me thinking about iofy this weekend…

Way back when I started at iofy we had the challenge of creating PC and PocketPC applications that played secure audiobook content, displayed table of contents meta data and bookmarked. The applications needed to be under 200k, run on a 200MHz …

Something cool my team has been working on… The iofy widget. We use our latest 3.0 platform, providing download, syncronization, and drm (if desired).

The 3.0 platform allows a customer or partner to plug in content and make it available for download via our download manager. If desired, the content can be secured with industry …