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I’m sure some of you are truly music addicts with thousands of songs being lugged around on your music player. You might even have a few hundred CD’s, or maybe you’ve broken into the thousands by now. I hate to burst your bubble, but you don’t have the world’s largest collection.
All hope is not lost for you though! The largest collection of records and CD’s is currently up for bid on eBay starting at a mere $3 million. Come on, you’re friends are sure to laugh at admire you with this:
From Thomas Edison to American Idol, this is the complete history of the music that shaped and defined five generations. 3 million records and 300,000 CDs containing more than 6 million song titles. It’s the undisputed largest collection of recorded music in the world. About half of the recordings are new and never played, and every genre of 20th century music is represented. There are countless rare recordings worth hundreds, or even thousands of dollars each on the collectibles market. Organized and cataloged, the collection is meticulously maintained and housed in a climate-controlled warehouse. The estimated value of this amazing collection is more than $50 million.
The collection of music is definitely a site to see:
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The owner will not sell this to just anyone either. According to the website they will only make it available to a suitable home:
We’re seeking a buyer who will guarantee to keep the collection intact (other than to sell duplicate copies, if so desired) and to keep the music alive for the enjoyment and music lovers, now and for years to come.
If you represent a museum, library, university, or charitable foundation, or you’re a philanthropist interested in purchasing the collection and donating it, please contact the owner’s representatives for more information, pricing and a personal on-site inspection.
Aside from the music collection the winner of the auction will also receive:
- The rights to Spin-Clean, the owner’s patented vinyl record cleaning system, considered the best on the market by audiophiles the world over
- The rights to Discmist CD cleaner
- CD Saver 2-part archival CD storage sleeves
- Yellow Jacket 45 RPM acid-free archival storage sleeves
- Ownership of the owner’s six publishing companies and eight independent record labels
- More than $100,000 worth of antique recording and listening devices and other music memorabilia currently on loan to a museum
By now I would hope that you have already placed your bid since it has less than 2 days remaining! Oh, but don’t forget, you’ll have to fork out the money for the packing and shipping costs. That was the deal killer for me. 
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We haven’t seen many executives leaving Facebook in recent months–in fact, a good portion of those execs that have been fleeing companies like Yahoo and Google have been moving over to the Facebook camp. That’s not the case with Owen Van Natta, who joined Facebook in 2005 as the company’s COO, and was re-assigned to become the Chief Revenue Officer and VP Operations last year.
According to Kara Swisher’s “All Things Digital,” Van Natta is leaving the still-young company to do his own thing. He’d already gotten a taste of entrepreneurial glory when he founded and became vice president of Amazon’s A9.com search utility, and joined Facebook with a good deal of experience thanks to his stint as the vice president of worldwide business and corporate development at Amazon. Now that Van Natta has helped position Facebook quite nicely (Van Natta was also integral to the Microsoft-Facebook deal), he’s got no problems moving on.
And moving on should be easy enough, as Van Natta has a hefty amount of Facebook stock. Of course, Facebook’s sore spot has always been revenue, and some question the network’s ability to turn a profit big enough to warrant the $15 billion valuation. So Facebook will have to continue working on that without the direct help of Van Natta, who is moving on to become his own CEO at a to-be-determined company.
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February 19, 2008 at 3:55 pm)
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Another company has teamed up with Zillow as part of the real estate resource site’s efforts to expand its marketing across the web, and to further penetrate the established real estate space. Realogy Corporation is the latest to sign on board to Zillow’s services, adding another 700,000 property listings to Zillow’s website.
The listings come from Realogy’s brand networks, including Century 21, Coldwell Banker and Sotheby’s International, and these listings will be updated to Zillow daily. Zillow did note that its work with other real estate-related organizations and outlets has helped lead it to more deals throughout the space, which is good for the brand and its ability to appeal to all aspects of the real estate industry. The obvious interest here is to increase the visibility, both online and offline, for properties across the nation.
I imagine the Internet will become an invaluable resource given the shift in information gathering and the success that Zillow has already experienced in the past few years. As Realogy is somewhat of an aggregator itself, the relationship it’s building with Zillow should be mutually beneficial, and allows Zillow to further grow and reach more people as a result.
And thanks to that success, we’re seeing a larger push for both niche and aggregating sites dealing in the real estate sector, on far more involved levels than what we’ve witnessed in the past. As sites like Zillow and Trulia become more of like portals for all things related to real-estate, some of these niche real estate sites will likely increase in value, perhaps for hyper-localized purposes, while other services crop up to support and sustain the growing market. But I imagine the data found in Zillow will be utilized in many more ways as individuals dealing in the real estate market better leverage the web and its communities for their purposes.
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Several days ago we wrote about something extraordinary that Robert Scoble said was coming from Microsoft and it was going to be announced on February 27th. When he saw a live demo of it at a recent visit to Redmond, he said it was enough to make his eyes well up with tears. TechCrunch is now speculating that this extraordinary something from Microsoft is a WorldWide Telescope. The desktop software would be available for Windows users and would allow them, as Michael Arrington says, to “pan around the nighttime sky and zoom as far in to any one area as the data will allow. Microsoft is said to be tapping the Hubble Telescope as well as ten or so earthbound telescopes around the world for data. When you find an area you like, you can switch to a number of different views such as infrared and non-visible light.”
When I thought about Microsoft’s WorldWide telescope, I immediately thought of Google Sky - Google’s addition to Google Earth for viewing stars and astronomical images. Because I’ve already played around with Google Sky, a WorldWide Telescope from Microsoft didn’t initially sound that great. But then I was reminded of what Scoble wrote in his blog. He said if people didn’t see a video of the software in action, people would tell him that it was lame. He said that actually seeing it will cause you to have an emotional reaction like it did for him. If Microsoft has in fact developed a really good application for viewing the sky, it could turn out to be pretty amazing.
Now we’re anxious to see if the WorldWide Telescope is in fact what Scoble was referring to (we believe it is), and to see it in action. Come to think of it, this application could potentially be amazing on Microsoft’s Surface computer.
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February 19, 2008 at 2:39 pm)
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Last week an Ohio company filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and Google, alleging infringement on a patent related to paid search methods. The lawsuit was filed by Paid Search Engine Tools of Liberty Township, Ohio. In the lawsuit, the company claims that Microsoft adCenter and Google AdWords infringe upon patent no. 7,043,450, “Paid Search Engine Bid Management.”
The patent in question was filed in 2002, and granted in May 2006. This same company filed a lawsuit against Yahoo last September. An important piece of information to note is that the lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of Texas, a district notorious for favorable outcomes to plaintiffs in patent lawsuits.
In Paid Search Engine Tools’ patent, it describes a method of:
“…for overcoming deficiencies and inefficiencies in the current paid search engine keyword bidding market, by providing keyword bidders with information they need to better optimize their use of paid search engines. The system accumulates bid amounts for a plurality of target keywords at one or more paid Internet search engines, and presents the bid amounts to a user, enabling the user to evaluate and optimize bids on those keywords.”
Put simply, they are claiming online keyword auctions to be in violation of their patent. While I’m not a lawyer and am not about to formulate an opinion on this without of all the facts and evidence, I will say this: at least they’re being fair and going after all three, and not just one.
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February 19, 2008 at 2:29 pm)
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Microsoft has posted a support article regarding some applications that have been found not to work when a Vista computer is upgraded to Vista SP1. The list is pretty small at this point, but an update like this isn’t expected to break as many apps like XP SP2 did.
The good news is that almost all of the programs that have been broken already have updated versions out that let them function normally. There are a few security apps listed, such and BitDefender and Zone Alarm, so make sure you are running a compatible version before upgrading if you want to avoid any issues.
Programs that are blocked from starting after you install Vista SP1:
- BitDefender AV or Internet Security 10 (2008 or later is supported)
- Fujitsu Shock Sensor 2.1.0.0
- Jiangmin KV Antivirus 10 or 2008 (supported versions now available)
- Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 (16.1 or later is supported)
- Zone Alarm Security Suite 7.1 (7.1.218.0 or later is supported)
Programs that do not run after you install Vista SP1:
- Iron Speed Designer 5.0.1 (5.0.2 or later is supported)
- Xheo Licensing 3.1 (3.1 R17024 or later is supported)
- Free Allegiance 2.1
Programs that have a loss of functionality after you install Vista SP1:
- New York Times Reader 1 (supported version now available)
- Rising Personal Firewall 2007
- Novell ZCM Agent 10.01
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February 19, 2008 at 1:52 pm)
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You may remember Gimado, the music search engine that launched just after Warner brought a lawsuit against Seeqpod, which offers a service similar to Gimado. Well, that Warner lawsuit didn’t seem to phase too many people, as a few other music search engines, like Songerize, have launched since, and now Gimado is announcing its seed funding, from an undisclosed investor. The funding amount is $300,000, and comes just weeks after the site was first launched.
And the Gimado team has wasted no time in working on new features for the next release of the site. A few of the upcoming features include the integration of peripheral search for radio and lyrics in addition to its existing download search, and an improved spider that will be indexing over 8 million mp3 files.
Sensibly, Gimado will also be layering in a recommendation system called “Smart Play” which will let users save songs, and find related music. In using the site for a while when I first tested it out, I noticed that it was fairly easy to stumble across songs that were no longer available, and suggested a tool for weeding these bad songs out. Gimado will be offering such a tool in the next release, along with share and embed options as well.
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February 19, 2008 at 1:30 pm)
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Heard enough about Microsoft-Yahoo yet? If so, unfortunately for you it may be a while until the biggest proposed deal in recent Web history is resolved one way or another. This morning, it was learned that Microsoft will be attempting to gain control of Yahoo’s Board of Directors in an effort to complete a deal that Yahoo has already rejected. Meanwhile, Yahoo has reportedly pursued numerous alternatives, including potential tie-ups with AOL, News Corp, or Google. So, time for some prognostication Mashable readers:
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Back in September 2007 Mozilla decided to break their email client, called Thunderbird, away from the browser and create a separate subsidiary for it. Up until now the new subsidiary has been called MailCo, but today it officially received the name of Mozilla Messaging. I believe the new name of the subsidiary is a good indication that Thunderbird will evolve into more than just an email application.
David Ascher, the CEO of Mozilla Messaging, has shed some light on the direction that the new subsidiary will be going as they push forward. In Thunderbird 3 they hope to provide an integrated calendar based on the Lightning add-on, add better search capabilities, easier configuration, and enhance the user interface. So it looks like the project might still be alive after all, but what’s expected of Thunderbird 3 makes it sound like it should really be called Thunderbird 2.5.
From the sounds of it the future of Thunderbird will not revolve solely around email. They want to expand into instant messaging, SMS, and possibly even VoIP:
It is worthwhile considering what the right user experience could be for someone using multiple email addresses, multiple instant messaging systems, IRC, reading and writing on blogs, using VoIP, SMS, and the like. What parts of those interactions make sense to integrate, and where? I don’t believe that stuffing all of those communication models inside of one application is the right answer.
We’ll be keeping a close eye on Mozilla Messaging as they move forward, and will definitely watch for improvements to Thunderbird.
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