I am Jack’s Head in the Cloud

In the future we won't be relying on one sole company to host our online identities. This week Apple announced their latest cloud product iCloud...

Facebook Connect for Publishers

jambrose | Interactive Strategy, Media Technology, Social Media

Why should all publishers be looking at Facebook Connect? There are a number of websites to find examples of the cool stuff you can do by implementing Facebook Connect (FBC) into your product. Razorfish’s Jesse Pickard posted an article for insidefacebook.com that outlined a number of interesting connected applications, AllFacebook.com has a list of the

Are you shilling for Facebook advertisers?

Are you shilling for Facebook advertisers?

jambrose | Interactive Strategy, Social Media

I am doing some research into Facebook privacy, and stumbled upon this option in the Facebook privacy policy. Users must explicitly opt out of being included in “Social Ads”. For those who are not familiar with this concept, picture your profile mug in a sidebar ad suggesting you heartily endorse this event or product. In

DRM-Free Music in Canadian iTunes

jambrose | Digital Music, Personal

Does the Canadian iTunes store carry DRM-free music? iTunes Canada carries songs free of DRM? After Googling this question a couple times, I thought I would make it easier to find the answer. The answer is yes, but not all songs. You can tell by the words “iTunes Plus” above the buy now button. I

All Eyes Should be on Trent Reznor

jambrose | Digital Music, Media Technology

Nine Inch Nails just release their new album The Slip as a %100 free download. I might go so far as to say it is a %110 free download, given the extremely open set of formats it which it is available: High-quality MP3s (87 mb) – encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged. FLAC lossless

Blackberry, Viigo and Twitter

jambrose | Media Technology, Social Media

As some of you know, I am an admitted Blackberry addict. It wasn’t too bad until I got the Bold 9000. This is the next best thing to a laptop, and in my opinion, kills the iPhone if you like to type. The downside is have to talk with a toaster up against you face,