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iTunes Match Bug Censors the Bad Words From Songs
Feb 3rd
iTunes Match, the cloud music-matching service that Apple launched last year, is a great way to sync one’s music library across numerous devices. If your collection happens to contain songs with profane lyrics, however, you may be in for a surprise.
Apparently, iTunes Match has been inadvertently replacing certain tracks with the “clean” version of the same song, Cult of Mac reported.
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iTunes Match differs from Google’s and Amazon’s music cloud storage lockers in that it doesn’t require users to upload their entire collection to Apple’s servers. Instead, it scans one’s library of music, identifies each track using its metadata and then matches it with a high-quality audio file in the cloud, even if the original was encoded at a lower bitrate.
It looks like what’s happening here is that the system is misreading metadata for certain tracks and cross-referencing with radio-friendly edits of the same song. At the very least, this has happened with four hip hop tracks as reported by Cult of Mac.
To some, this may smack of the type of nothing-dirty-please, prim-and-proper censorship for which Apple has gained a reputation in the iTunes App Store. More likely than not, it’s just a bug. The company may not want filthy porno-filled apps populating its App Store, but that’s quite different from allowing people to listen to a profanity-laden Jay-Z song that they purchased (or otherwise) acquired on their own accord.
Apple has acknowledged that this is an issue and is reportedly working on a fix.
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Is Your Facebook Ad Image Worth A Thousand Words?
Jan 9th
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So when you’re stuck with a 160 character limit in a Facebook ad, use a great image to grab attention and tell the rest of your story.
Finding a good image is hard. Finding a great one is even …
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How To Google Your Exact Words
Nov 18th
Google has been making lots of tweaks to search lately. Search is why we all came to Google in the first place, but these days it’s taking the product we knew and loved in a different direction. It’s changing the way queries work, turning “+” into a social search instead of an “and,” and it’s taking away chronological features in favor of what’s hot right now.
In response to user feedback about the changes, Google gave us a new feature this week called “verbatim search.” In its blog post, the Google search team warns that verbatim mode will take away all kinds of helpful things they’ve built for us. But users wanted a way to search for exactly what they want, and Google has built it. Here’s what it does and how to use it.
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To understand how different verbatim search is, it’s important to know what features of Google search it turns off:
- You won’t get spelling corrections.
- It won’t personalize your results with Web history or social stuff.
- It won’t include synonyms or related terms (like “automobile” if you search for “car”).
- It won’t search for words with the same stem (like “dancer” if you search “dance”).
- And it won’t be able to understand clarifying optional terms like “circa” in “Roosevelt speeches circa 1939.”
In other words, Google’s serious when they say verbatim search looks for your exact words. If you have a specific query you’d like to search for verbatim, here’s how you do it:
Get to a search results page:
On the bottom of the left sidebar, click ‘Show search tools:’
Then scroll way, way down and click ‘Verbatim:’
Do you like this new verbatim feature? Let us know in the comments.
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Patent Absurdity? Google, Microsoft in War of Words Over Android ‘Patent Attacks’
Aug 5th
Google brazenly released a blog post condemning the patent strategies of Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle. Unfortunately for them, Microsoft quickly rebutted by showing that they’d attempted to work jointly with Google.
Google’s Anti-Microsoft (and …
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Jul 28th
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How To Get Free Unique Content With Product Reviews: 15,000+ Words In 12 Hours
May 26th
With the recent Google update of Panda attacks, now more than ever retailers need to focus on creating unique content that’s also high-quality. An easy way to get this content is to ask for help! Today, I’m going to cover how you can optimize customer product reviews to make more with your online…
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15 Enterprise Products in 30 Words
Feb 11th
As part of the Enterprise Startup Spotlight I’ve asked each submitter to provide a one sentence explanation of the company and an explanation of how it’s different from the competition. I’m beginning to think I should have collapsed both of those fields to two words.
Why? Because so many of the strongest enterprise 2.0 companies can be summed up in just two words. Here are 15 products explained in two words each.
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- Chatter – Salesforce.com Integration
- Confluence – Developer Collaboration
- Drupal – Open CMS
- Huddle – External Collaboration
- Jive – Everything Suite
- Lotus Connections – Social Analytics
- Mindtouch – Social Documentation
- Newsgator – Usable SharePoint
- PBWorks – Agency Collaboration
- Qontext – Contextual Integration
- StreamWork – Decision Making
- Socialcast – Embeddable Microblogging
- tibbr – Universal Inbox
- Yakabod – Secure Sharing
- Yammer – Freemium Social
This is by no means an exhaustive list of companies that have a strong, clear position. But these companies practically own these market positions, and standing out against them them is tough – even if they’re not the best products in their category.
Yes, some might fit more than one description. For example, Huddle is also a freemium service. But its external collaboration that it has staked its business on, and it’s done a good job of owning that position. Likewise, it’s hard to compete with Yammer for the freemium position. Mindtouch has an open source product, but it’s the focus on documentation that sets it apart.
Many are trying to compete with one or more of these positions. There are other everything suites besides Jive – but today it’s difficult to set oneself apart from Jive based only on a feature list. tibbr managed to differentiate itself from Jive not by stuffing every conceivable social feature under the sun, but by making it easy to add activity streams from other enterprise applications. In so doing, it made itself standout from Jive and other established players like Socialtext.
As the enterprise 2.0 market matures I hope to see more products with clear, distinct value propositions that can be defined in only two or three words.
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On the Web, Using Words to Lure the Readers – New York Times
Feb 10th
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On the Web, Using Words to Lure the Readers
New York Times It was an example of an art and science at which The Huffington Post excels: search engine optimization, or SEO The term covers a wide range of … |
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