dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-02-28 00:53:14 EST:
41 / 107
Your download speed : 41 kbps or 5.2 KB/sec.
That is 97.3% worse than avg. other reports from sbcglobal.net
Your upload speed : 107 kbps or 13.4 KB/sec.
That is 69.2% worse than avg. other reports from sbcglobal.net
I swear to god they better fix this shit.
How soon before we see Google Calendaring? Possibly sooner than expected.
If you go to http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=barc you can see the Google Links preferences and can add a link to Google CL2. There's also a logon but neither of them appear to work.
Here are a few screenshots:
Google Links
Google CL2 Logon
Hopefully Google will be releasing this soon as while 30 Boxes has been cool if I can get an integrated calendar with gmail I'll be a very happy camper indeed.
My good friend Nico Lumma who used to work at VA Software is now helping run a company in Cologne Germany that's just rolling out mobile version of Jabber called Mabber.
I was lucky enough to see and use the product early on during it's development and I have to say that I like it. It's primarily based around the Jabber protocol but also has support for ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM and MSN Messenger.
I'm not going to do a proper review as of this time as Nik Cubrilovic over at TechCrunch has a pretty good one here.
Registration is not open to the world at this time however I have quite a few tokens at my disposal so if you want to kick the tires then drop me a comment on this thread along with a way to contact you and I'll get you an invitation.
So from out of nowhere I get the following email:
The Sprint Ambassador Team recently visited Fusion94.org and wants to invite you to participate in our Ambassador Program.
The Sprint Ambassador Program is all about exploring our latest products and services and allows you to give direct feedback to Sprint. We recently launched the Sprint Power Vision (SM) Network and want to provide you with the full experience, at no charge. Sprint Power Vision Network enables customers to download data at faster speeds and experience new data products.
So what's the deal?
As a qualified participant, we will send you one Sprint Power Vision phone and provide you with six months of all-access service (at no charge). You'll have access to the Sprint Music Store(SM) live TV broadcasts, gaming and more. Yes, you will also have unlimited free calling and data service. It's a pretty good deal and all we ask for in return is your candid feedback (you decide how much and how often).
After carefully reading the Terms of Service (ToS) I didn't notice anything that would prevent me from blogging about my experiences with the phone (good or bad). I went ahead and filled out the required information that they asked of me and got a followup email a few minutes later stating that I had been accepted and that my phone will ship in the next 2-4 weeks.
The phone they are providing is a Samsung A920 Phone and I'm looking forward to putting it through it's paces especially the Sprint TV portion of it.
It's interesting to me as this is the first time I've ever received anything due to my blogging efforts. A few minutes of searching on google shows me that Sprint has also hit up the proverbial "A-List" of bloggers as well. Bloggers such as Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine, Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion, Joseph Jaffe on the Gawker Media network, and Chris Pearson, a 9rules network member were also invited.
I have to say that this is a pretty good way for Sprint to get some free publicity as well as free marketing for their Power Vision Product out of the deal. And the old axiom that there's no such thing as bad publicity is bound to cause a few ripples out there.
During the evening/early morning of February 22/23, Alex Ostrovsky from Michigan purchased and downloaded the iTunes Music Store 1 billionth download (From the Music Service only). By doing so he won himself a new 20" iMac, 10 60gb iPods and a $10,000 Music Card for use with the iTMS.
Some interesting iTMS stats:
April 28, 2003 Apple Launches iTunes Music Store
May 6, 2003 One million songs sold on iTMS
May 14, 2003 Two million songs sold on iTMS
June 23, 2003 Five million songs sold on iTMS
September 8, 2003 Ten million songs sold on iTMS
October 16, 2003 Apple & Pepsi launch giveaway of 100 million free songs
October 20, 2003 One million copies of iTunes for Windows downloaded in less than four days
November 6, 2003 1.5 million songs sold on iTMS in one week
December 15, 2003 25 million songs sold on iTMS
March 15, 2004 50 million songs sold on iTMS
April 28, 2004 Over 70 million songs sold on iTMS
May 5, 2004 3.3 million songs sold on iTMS in one week
June 15, 2004 Apple launches iTMS in UK, France & Germany
June 23, 2004 iTMS in Europe sells 800,000 songs in first week
July 12, 2004 100 million songs sold on iTMS
August 10, 2004 iTMS catalog tops one million songs
October 14, 2004 150 million songs sold on iTMS
October 26, 2004 Apple launches iTMS in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain
November 30, 2004 Apple launches iTMS in Canada
December 16, 2004 200 million songs sold on iTMS
January 6, 2005 Apple launches iTMS in Ireland
January 24, 2005 250 million songs sold on iTMS
March 2, 2005 300 million songs sold on iTMS
April 13, 2005 350 million songs sold on iTMS
May 10, 2005 Apple launches iTMS in Denmark, Norway, Sweden & Switzerland
May 10, 2005 400 million songs sold on iTMS
July 17, 2005 500 million songs sold on iTMS
August 4, 2005 Apple launches iTMS in Japan
August 8, 2005 1 million songs sold on iTMS Japan in first four days
October 19, 2005 Apple launches iTMS in Australia
October 21, 2005 1 million videos sold on iTMS in less than 20 days
February 7, 2006 12 million videos sold on iTMS
February 23, 2006 1 billion songs sold on iTMS
As of October 2005, iTMS downloads accounted for 82% of legal music downloads in the US.
Digital Music sales accounted for 6% of overall music sales but sales grew from $220m to $790m in 2005.
