“Since 04:00 GMT on Sunday morning, the primary Radb service has been exhibiting intermittent problems meeting acceptable service levels. This means that libraries, scrobble counts and the services associated with them (stats, radio stations etc) appear to be broken when you use Last.fm.
We’re working very hard to fix this as soon as possible, and we’ve had engineers on it throughout yesterday and last night, but we wanted to keep you posted here with what’s happened and what we know so far.”
My bro’, blogging the Internets:
UPDATE: Spotify has confirmed it will launch in the U.S. on Thursday, June 14. In an email sent Wednesday afternoon, a spokesperson wrote that Spotify “will become available tomorrow morning in the United States by invitation and subscription.” The company plans to release more details Thursday morning at 8 a.m. EDT.
Jesus… as if the new self-titled Bon Iver album wasn’t good enough (it is—it’s astonishing, see comments below)… the making of the beautiful cover artwork was painstakingly documented by the artist, Gregory Euclide:
Bon Iver, Bon Iver Album Cover Progress Documentation – Flickr
and here:
“It was a long and painstaking process to digitize 10,000 78 rpm records for the National Jukebox. The Making of the National Jukebox offers a look at what was involved.”
“We’re really excited to announce the arrival of CD Baby’s new Music Store Widget. Sell downloads, CDs and vinyl directly to fans… this free, customizable store can easily be embedded on your website, blog, or Facebook Page.” —CD Baby
The shopping cart within the widget is what’s new here; I haven’t seen that before…
“Apple today confirmed that CEO Steve Jobs will give the keynote address at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) which kicks off Monday, June 6, 2011 in San Francisco.”
What with the “Cloud” coming and all… I’m going to finally give this a try. “All data is encrypted locally on your PC… automatically synchronizes your data – access it from anywhere at anytime.” And so far, wow… extremely cool technology. And they’re local, too… fun!
LastPass – Password Manager, Form Filler, Password Management
“We’ve taken every step we can think of to ensure your security and privacy. Using an evolved host-proof hosted solution, LastPass employs localized, government-level encryption (256-bit AES implemented in C++ and JavaScript) and local one-way salted hashes to give you complete security with the go-anywhere convenience of syncing through the cloud. All encrypting and decrypting happens on your computer – no one at LastPass can ever access your sensitive data. LastPass’ Security Challenge also allows you to identify weak account data and provides suggestions for significantly improving your online security.”