The Telematics Freedom Foundation has just released their Media Center Comparison paper, where they compared the 10 most prominent FLOSS (for Free/Libre/Open Source Software) Media Center Projects. The projects compared were XBMC, MythTV, Boxee, Elisa, Neuros OSD, Freevo, My Media System, Entertainer, CenterStage+Plex and MediaPortal. The 20 page paper might [...]

This new skin was released for XBMC a couple days ago. MediaStream by Team Razorfish is a community effort that has been going on since October 2007. It’s is a very polished piece of work as you can see in the video and need nearly no configuration and tinkering to [...]

Plex is an indie fork of the popular Xbox Media Center for OS X Leopard. Aeon is an outstanding skin in alpha stages for XBMC. You might have heard about both of them and you might have also seen many galleries and screenshots. Well, I’ve got a video demo. And [...]

The wonderful music blog mecca The Hype Machine has released their 2007 Zeitgeist. The Zeitgeist comes in three sections: The Best 50 Songs, The Best 50 Albums and The Best 50 Bands. It was compiled by extensive analysis of the data they collected from music blogs around the internet throughout [...]

Awdio brings the music playing in many of the respected clubs, venues, festivals, etc. from around the world to your browser. Since there is always some kind of clubbing going on around the world at any given point in time, there is always something cool to listen to on Awdio. [...]

Check this out: sleeveface: one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion. www.sleeveface.com There is also a fantastic Flickr pool that has over 750 awesome photos.

Founder of Audioscrobbler, Richard Jones aka RJ on the Last.fm blog: As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website. Something we’ve wanted for years—for people who visit Last.fm to be able to play any track for free—is now possible. With the [...]

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