R23 Information Services #121

WFMU launches Ichiban Rock & Soul and Ubu Audio
http://mp3stream.wfmu.org:443/listen.pls
http://ubustream.wfmu.org/listen.pls

Bill Mann: Internet radio brings the world to your home
mercurynews.com

SoundExchange, Broadcasters Chat At RAIN Summit East
audio4cast

Radio’s Looming Crisis Is Not Digital
The Infinite Dial

Wireless carriers beg FCC for spectrum, blame smartphones
arstechnica

Sprint Banks on WiMax to Win Back Market Share
nytimes

Employers grappling with social network use
cnet

R23 Information Services #110

UK Study: Teens Relationship With Music Shifting

hypebot

Radio and the Internet Put the Smackdown on Newspapers

future now

WFMU's new iphone app

Facebook Buys FriendFeed

WSJ

MLB beefs up Roku's rotation

cnet

OPEN CALL: Rudy Giuliani 9/11 remix contest

Click here for over two minutes of wall to wall September Eleventh's, courtesy of America's mayor, [Rudy Giuliani]. Your mission from WFMU: turn some or all of them into music, to be reposted on WFMU's blog. The best one received by December 5 wins a WFMU messenger bag full of CDs and other assorted swag. Send your mp3 submissions to ken at wfmu dot org, but if they are larger than 8 megs, please post them somewhere and send me the URL. Submissions will be posted on the WFMU blog.

WFMU's live streams on iPhone

From WFMU:

We are pleased to announce that WFMU's live streams are finally available on the iPhone. iPhone listeners can point their browsers at iphone.wfmu.org and listen to our live mp3 streams at either 128k or 32k and also choose from a selection of our archived content and podcasts. Based on our initial testing it will come as no surprise that tuning in over Wifi will get you the best results however we've also had reports of listeners with strong EDGE reception tuning in at 128k without issue. Since the Quicktime Player in the iPhone has somewhat poor buffering compared with thick client-side players like Winamp and iTunes, we recommend listening to the 32k stream while connected over EDGE. For the time being we are only offering a small subset of our archived content and podcasts on the iPhone but will be adding more content as time goes by....

Tversity: A month or so ago, Tversity, a New Jersey based software company, announced that they had figured out a way to stream to the iPhone. Tversity's main product offering is a media server that allows you to stream all your audio and video content from your home computer to various web enabled devices (including many mobile devices and game consoles). I tend to think of TVersity as a variation on Sling Player or something similar to DotTunes but with many more features.

After contacting Tversity we learned that they also have some products aimed at enterprise level clients and they do a lot of work providing media delivery solutions to various wireless carriers. Over time we've been able to do some minor tweaking with their product and we're very pleased with the results.