Filed under: Audio, Web services, Search, web 2.0

Muxtape is a great site for creating web-based “mix tapes” which you can share with your friends. Just upload a few songs, put them in order, and send the link to your friends, family members, and enemies. Anyone can listen to your songs, but there’s no (easy) way to download the music. There’s just one problem: There’s no way to search Muxtapes, which seriously limits the site’s utility.

Enter MuxFind, a search engine for Muxtape. Just enter an artist, song title, or Muxtape user name and MuxFind will direct you to any pages that match your query. Muxfind is a great way to find not just individual songs, but other music you might like. After all, if you’re a massive Poi Dog Pondering fan, there’s a good chance other users who uploaded Poi Dog music will have other songs you might like.

Update: The site has been updated since this post was written so that you can now only search by Muxtape, not by song or artist. This makes both Muxfind and Muxtape a whole lot less useful as far as we’re concerned. But the change might (or might not) help keep the sites lawsuit free (for now).

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Filed under: Developer, World wide web, Web services, Google, Googleholic, web 2.0

Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix for everything Google! In this edition:

• Google Mini gets an upgrade
• Google Treasure Hunt 2008
• More information from forum results
• YouTube is obsessed with robots
• Google I/O starts tomorrow

Continue reading Googleholic for May 27, 2008

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Filed under: Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Time Warner (TWX)

One of the most important outposts that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has on the web is its browser, Internet Explorer. The huge majority of people who visit sites online use the Redmond product for access and movement around the web. The lists of consumer “favorites” on IE comes pre-loaded with web destinations from Microsoft and its partners. Internet Explorer has information on users through the security settings, which consumers can set, and “cookies” — used to track web behavior — which consumers can be viewed and deleted. The software also stores the user’s history of sites visited.

Microsoft’s main browser competitor, Mozilla, is coming out with a new version of its product, which could help drive its 18% share of the market even higher.

According to The New York Times, “With tasks like e-mail and word processing now migrating from the Personal computer to the Internet, analysts and industry players think the browser will soon become even more valuable and strategically important.”

Mozilla’s new product will be faster at accessing websites and will use less Personal computer processing power.

Microsoft has already lost the search engine war to Google (NASDAQ:GOOG). Its web portal, MSN, is behind Time Warner (NYSE:TWX)’s AOL and Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO)’s in its audience for a number of key content segments like money and finance.

What the world’s largest software company does not need is more on the internet competition. But things aren’t working out that way.

Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com.

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Filed under: Competitive strategy, Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL)

In case more evidence was needed that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)’s Zune is a bust, GameStop (NASDAQ: GME) has decided to stop selling the MP3 player, citing the fact the product “didn’t have the appeal” that it had hoped it would. GameStop has pulled the inventory from its stores and will offer the Zunes on its website until it has cleared out the entire inventory.

In response, Microsoft told the Wall Street Journal that the Zune sales “have seen good momentum” of late and that the company had seen “great response to our spring release.” Translation: “Believe us not your lying eyes.”

The failure of the Zune and similar iPod wannabes indicates that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) might have a more massive moat than many had expected. So far no one has been able to dethrone the iPod and as stores like GameStop stop carrying competitors, Apple’s competitive advantage will strengthen.

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An anonymous reader writes “InfoQ has an interesting writeup of Dr. Cliff Click’s work on developing highly concurrent data structures for use on the Azul hardware (which is in production with 768 cores), supporting 700+ hardware threads in Java. The basic idea is to use a new coding style that involves a massive array to hold the data (allowing scalable parallel access), atomic update on those array words, and a finite-state machine built from the atomic update and logically replicated per array word. The end result is a coding style that has allowed Click to build 2.5 lock-free data structures that also scale remarkably well.”

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nimble99 writes “I am a computer software engineer, focused mainly on the Windows platform — but most of my development time is spent in .NET. I would like to move my .NET development to Linux in the form of Mono, in an attempt at building a media-center type of device. All I require, is a base operating system with easy hardware support, Mono, and a window manager that (preferably) does nothing but act as a host for mono applications. Is this available? I dont know a lot about Linux, so I thought I would ask if there is already something like this available. Obviously a ‘Mono Operating System’ would be the cleanest solution, but a similar thing could be achieved with the barest minimum of Linux distros right?”

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twistedmoney99 writes “InformIT.com has a whimsical yet intriguing look at the OLPC in an article series titled “One Leet Pwning Child — Give one, Get Owned”. Part one details how to upgrade the core system with some extras, but part two is where the fun begins as the author converts the OLPC into a lean green hacking machine to enable wireless sniffing, setup the OLPC for vulnerability assessments, and stage the device for a little autopwning with Metasploit.”

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An anonymous reader writes “MacScoop reports that ‘Apple has seeded several builds of its Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 update to developers during the past few weeks and just seeded yet another one numbered “9D34″ earlier today.’ The update fixes over two hundred bugs, weighs nearly half a gigabyte and should be available soon.”

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An anonymous reader writes “A Singapore firm, VueStar has threatened to sue websites that use photos or graphics to link to another page, claiming it owns the patent for a technology used by millions around the world. The company is also planning to take on giants like Microsoft and Google. It is a battle that could, at least in theory, upend the World wide web. The firm has been sending out invoices to Singapore companies since last week asking them to pay up.”

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