I love remixes, mashups, and covers. I love it when bad songs get good covers, I love it more when it’s a bad cover. I’m a fan of Coverville and I get excited every time I find yet another version of Smells Like Teen Spirit (hey, this is just a sampling: lullaby version, Patti Smith, [...]

Posted August 29, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: Chess, cover songs, mashups, music, NSFW, One Night In Bangkok, remixes, rock musicals, rock opera, rock operas, video, Vinylshakerz. Be the first one.

I’ve been talking a lot about remixability lately, but Nat Torkington just pointed out that the web services and APIs from commercial organizations aren’t as infrastructural as we might think.
Offering the example of Amazon suing Alexaholic (for remixing Alexa’s data), he tells us that APIs are not “a commons of goodies to be built on [...]

Posted April 30, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: api, apis, free, free beer, free speech, mashups, public good, remixability, self interest. Be the first one.

It’s been more than a year since I first demonstrated Scriblio (was WPopac) at ALA Midwinter in San Antonio. More than a year since NCSU debuted their Endeca-based OPAC. And by now most every major library vendor has announced a product that promises to finally deliver some real improvements to our systems.
My over-simplified list said [...]

Posted April 17, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: api, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library systems. l2, mashups, remixability, soa. 10 Comments.

O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference isn’t until the end of May, but Google just released two sweet new map-related features: GeoRSS support and MyMaps.
The GeoRSS support means that any application that can output it’s geocoding — as simple as <georss:point>45.256 -71.92</georss:point> — can now be linked to a live map with no more effort than it [...]

Posted April 11, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: geo, geocoding, georss, google, local search, loosely linked, mapping, maps, mashups, mymaps. 2 Comments.

ProgrammableWeb pointed out an InformationWeek story that claimed 28% of Amazon’s sales in early 2005 were attributable to Amazon affiliates. And C|net claims Amazon now has 180,000 AWS developers (up from the 140,000 Amazon was claiming about a year ago).
(Note: not every Amazon affiliate/associate is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer, but Amazon hasn’t [...]

Posted March 29, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: amazon api, amazon web services, Amazon.com, api, AWS, developers, earnings, mashups. One Comment.

The MTA, the folks who run New York’s subways and busses and such, weren’t the only ones to smack a cease and desist down on iPod Subway Maps last week, but they’re the first to tell they can pay $500 for the privilege of distributing those maps in an iPod-readable format — but only for [...]

Posted October 5, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Libraries & Networked Information, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Travel. Tags: cease and desist, conversions, copyright law, distribution license, engadget, ipod, ipod subway maps, ipodsubwaymaps.com, mashups, mta, subway maps, subways. Be the first one.