Earlier in the week, Jacob turned me on to an interesting article about readable URLs. It’s been sitting in the back of my mind ever since.

Today, I was poking around Muxtape, to see how they do what they do. I ran across something interesting in their Amazon S3 URLs, where they house the MP3s:

http://muxtape.s3…?PLEASE=DO_NOT_STEAL_MUSIC&AWS…

Funny. What a great way to communicate a message.

On a related note, I have to say that I love Muxtape. Justin Ouellette has done a great job of giving users what they want while keeping the concept, process and interface very simple. It follows many of the same principles that we try to follow at Songza. I’m really interested to see where it goes from here — hopefully, it stays true to its minimalistic ways.

P.S. My Muxtape is at http://srobbin.muxtape.com

Last week, I had written a post, introducing a way for mobile users to watch Google Video on their phones. Well, for those readers who are visual learners, and who’d rather not traverse the article’s geek speak, I’ve created a video demonstrating how the application works and have posted it online (to YouTube….go figure). Enjoy.

UPDATE (Oct. 23, 2006): The application has been modified to allow for the downloading of both AVI and MP4 files, so that phones capable of MP4 playback can take advantage of the smaller file size.

How many times have you been sitting on the train, with nothing to do, and you thought to yourself, "Boy, I’d really like to be watching a video about pickles," only to realize that you have none on your person? If you’re like me, then the answer is plenty.

Well, worry no more. You can now search and watch Google Video right from your mobile communicator. Read the rest of this entry »

Alright, the first thing that we need to admit is that we’re standing on the shoulders of electronic giants — downloading Google Video is nothing new. In fact, the means to do it are plentiful. Good people, all over the world, have been hard at work, creating various ways of accessing and downloading video content. Here are but a few: Read the rest of this entry »