TiVo is beefing up their HME offerings by centrally hosting applications and partnering with Yahoo! Yahoo! weather, traffic, and photos are avalable - as is Internet radio (Live365) and a few new games. Also being tested is the podcaster application I previewed at Digital Life, Fandango movie tickets, and a few various games.

Ok. This sounds great. EXCEPT for the fact that the only Yahoo! thing I like is it’s relation to Flickr. But… maybe I’ll hold off on getting a new TiVo right now.

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We’ve been talking about this on BOL quite a bit, but now it really hits home. One of my favorite podcasts, Mashuptown, is dead. Because of the RIAA.

The time has come to shut down this blog/site/podcast. This has come about for many reasons which I won’t bore you with. First, let me say that I would like to thank all the Artists, producers, Dj’s that made this a total labor of love. Your creativity and cleverness will never cease to amaze me. Most of the Mashup tracks that were featured on this site were in many cases better than the originals. Props go out to all of you who visited, sampled, sent in comments/email, and put links to the site in your blogs or podcasts.

Apaprently they are in violation of the DMCA, and the RIAA has threatened legal action. This is happening to a lot of music podcasts, and there doesn’t look like there’s much light at the end of the tunnel. I knew that once podcasts hit the mainstream this shit would hit the fan. It makes me want to vomit, just a little bit. Ok, a lot.

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This is what I think is good to post about after a few glasses of wine. Look at the size of that thing!

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Sony has decided to acquire the central stand at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) that will take place in January next year in Las Vegas. Ok…that would seem rather normal…except for the fact that the stand will have 12,000 sq. feet (aprox 3660 square meters). That’s a lot. Time to take away the X360 thunder.

I’m so gonna be there for that.

Oh, so anyway, just finished a nice 15 hour workday. We gave away 10 XBOX 360’s! It was very exciting. But I’m oh so very tired now. And then I tried to order a DVR from Comcast, and they put me in some stupid chat thing, and then the stupid woman didn’t speak to me so I left, and then my order was cancelled. Asshats.

I would have gotten TiVo, but I don’t have a phone line. ASSHATS! I give up, I’m going to bed.

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