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+[Ilike][1] is a new music-based social networking site from the people behind [GarageBand][2] (the website not the Mac app). Ilike aims to expose you to new music based on the music you like now.
+Ilike has all the familar trapping of a social networking site, create a profile, various ways to meet new members, upload pictures, and more, but iLike also has some very nice tools for finding new music.
+The main tool is the iTunes sidebar. The iLike sidebar is an iTunes plugin that adds a sidebar to your iTunes application and makes music recommendations based on what you're listening to at the time. The sidebar adds a little bit of startup time to iTunes, but once it's running it doesn't seem to add any load to the application. Naturally you must be connected to the internet for the iLike sidebar to work.
+There are two categories of recommendation from the iLike sidebar: established artists and new, unsigned artists. When you're listening to a song and you see an iLike recommendation you like just click the arrow beside the name and iLike pauses your iTunes playback and streams the new song from its host site. For the established artists you get a 30 second sample and link to buy the song (from iTunes Music Store).
+Music for the unsigned artists comes from iLike's partner site, GarageBand and you can listen to the whole song. If you decide you like the song there's a link that will open your web browser and download the file. It would be nice if iLike could somehow just download the song in the background and automatically add it to your library, but that currently isn't possible (if you use Safari this more or less happens anyway).
+iLike accounts offers a sort of privacy control that lets you hide "embarrassing" artists which is a good way to hide that fact that I'm currently rockin' the Dio. Not really. Seriously. I'm not. 
+The search and recommendations feature is fairly good. I tried throwing a few more obscure artists at it and it was stumped by some them, but it surprised me by finding recommendations for many of them. Interestingly enough, while a few randomly selected Sun Ra tracks turned up nothing in the way of matches, other Sun Ra songs did -- go figure. I suppose as time goes on and more members give more information, the recommended tracks will likely become better.
+ILife also claims they will be adding support for other music players in the future (in fact they're openly soliciting programmers to help them if that's your bag).
+I will confess to being initially ill-disposed toward iLike and I can take or leave the actual website and social network aspect of the service, but the iTunes sidebar is very slick. It integrates nicely with iTunes and it's a great way to explore both established and new, emerging artists. I try out a lot of stuff for this blog and most of it I forget about a month later, but iLike I might actually keeping around.
+[1]: http://www.ilike.com/ "iLike Music Networking site"
+[2]: http://garageband.com/ "GarageBand.com"
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+Why reputation defender? What made you want to start this company?
+How does the data collection process work?
+What methods do you employ for gathering the data on people -- is it all spiders/bots or is there a human element as well?
+How do you sort out name collision? For any given name there are usually several individuals in the country, how do you know who's who? And how do you a pontentially libelous statement is directed at your client and not another person with the same name?
+From the site:
+--
+"Our trained and expert online reputation advocates use an array of proprietary techniques developed in-house to correct and/or completely remove the selected unwanted content from the web" 
+--
+What methods do you use to eliminate content? 
+Is there a legal component and if so on what basis? Obviously libel law applies in some cases, but what about "embarrassing" content, can you effect the removal of that as well? i.e. drunken prank video on YouTube etc.
+How do you handle material posted on sites outside U.S. jurisdiction?
+I realize the "myprivacy" feature is in "coming soon" status, but can you say anything about how you plan to get these companies to stop selling personal data?
+And finally, this is a bit more abstract, but...
+There was a comment on a mashable.com post on reputation defender that talked about human nature being more reactive than proactive and thus people are more likely to care about things of this nature after it's too late (in otherwords after they don't get the job etc). Do you have any response to this thought?
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+[Neighboroo][1] is a fun little site that gives a visual face to usually faceless data like population density, cost of living indexes, tax rates and more. The site combines neighborhood statistics with color-coded Google maps to display information. 
+It's an interesting way to dig through census data (or at least I'm assuming the information is coming from census data) without loosing yourself in the numbers. The color codes on the map could be a little bit starker in contrast, sometimes it's hard to tell exactly what shade you're looking at, and deeper zooming on the maps would be nice, but Neighboroo is great at what it does.
+Handy for anyone who's moving or thinking of moving and I'm sure there's other uses as well. Found via Folksonomy.
+[1]: http://www.neighboroo.com/ "Neighboroo.com"
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+*	Mobile Video site [Veeker][6] launches today.
+*	Struggling podcast site [Odeo][1] was acquired today by [Obvious Corp][2] a new company founded by, among others, Odeo's own founder Evan Williams
+	
+*	Social music service [iLike][3] launched its public beta last night. Similar to Last.fm, iLike is a social networking site built around the music you listen to. iLike helps connect you with emerging artists based on similarities with music you already like.
+	
+*	Adobe Labs has release a public beta for a new piece of software it calls [SoundBooth][4]. Soundbooth is designed to allow you to easily clean up and edit your audio recordings.
+*	And finally here's something for the bored: [all 200,000 Enron emails][5] in a searchable database. From Trampoline: "The Enron Explorer lets you investigate the actions and reactions of Enron's senior management team as the noose began to tighten."
+[1]: http://odeo.com/ "odeo.com"
+[2]: http://obviouscorp.com/ "Obvious Corp"
+[3]: http://www.ilike.com/ "iLike.com"
+[4]: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/soundbooth/ "Adobe Soundbooth Beta"
+[5]: http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/ "Browse Enron emails"
+[6]: http://veeker.com/veeker/Login.html "Veeker.com"
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+I'm always looking for something to topple MySpace's current dominance and today I think I might have found it -- [Vox][1]. Six Apart, the folks that brought us Movable Type, TypePad and LiveJournal, promise that Vox will be "blogging for the rest of us." Vox has been around for a while in beta testing mode, but today the Six Apart service has been unleashed on the world and it looks very, very nice.Whether or not you're "the rest of us" is up to you, but Vox has some very attractive features and a great look and feel.
+The user interface and layout is vaguely reminiscent of Flickr, clean, simple and slick. There is no way to directly customize the code of your pages but Vox gives you a ton of page "themes" (165 of them to be exact) to choose from so your pages can have your personal stamp. Even better, adding external content like YouTube movies dead simple.
+There's also very minimal advertising on the site pages, most of the ads are confined to the inside editing pages. Within your page there are monitized Amazon affiliate links and other small things, but for the most part you don't notice it when browsing through the site.
+As much as I would like to call Vox a potential MySpace killer, the truth is I think they're after a much different demographic. I don't know that the kids will flock to Vox, but older users looking for a non-technical way to join an online community should be very happy with Vox. 
+No word on how this affects the future of LiveJournal.
+[1]: http://www.vox.com/ "Vox.com"
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+Earlier this week the release of Windows Media Player 11 was pushed back a few days, but the word is it will arrive very soon. Good news -- if you're a Windows user.
+As a Mac user, Windows updates tend to slip by me, but Media Player is somewhat cross-platform and I would like to be able to watch .wmv movies on my Mac. Unfortunately Microsoft ceased development on the Mac version of Windows Media Player back at Windows Media Player 9. 
+Since that time [Flip4Mac][1] has released a set of codecs that allow you to watch .wmv files via Quicktime (Flip4Mac's free offering is essential a set of codecs that allow Quicktime to read .wmv files). With Microsoft's own website pointing Mac users to Flip4Mac, this seems to be the only option at this point.
+I've been quite happy with Flip4Mac and in some ways I like .wmv better than Quicktime movies, but with the imminent release of a new version of Windows Media Player it's possible that we Mac users won't be able to view movies made with the new player.
+Does anyone have an suggestions on alternate ways a Mac user can view wmv files? Are there any alternative to Flip4Mac? And does anyone know of a Mac program that can handle Windows Media DRM files (something neither Flip4Mac nor the old official WMPlayer 9 can do)?
+[1]: http://www.flip4mac.com/ "Flip4Mac"
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