Sol Young

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 continue to use Audible as [...]

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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 web pages in order to deliver another web [...]

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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 processor and [...]

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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 standard [...]

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