LIVEdigitally

Our old friend Jonas did something I am always nervous about doing – he installed a beta Web browser on his PC.  Quite adventurous in my opinion!  Anyhow, he took a look (or should I say listen) to Songbird, which is basically a rich media Web browser that incorporates audio files with Web sites. 

I know there is a lot of push toward convergence, and podcasting has certainly gained a ton of interest from people, but in my opinion this is the kind of idea that never really needed to come.  If I want to listen to something while surfing, why wouldn’t I just leave Windows Media Player (or something else) running?  Why can’t I just do this exact thing with a simple plug-in, or even frames on my Web site?

I don’t get it.  And from the sounds of things, neither did Jonas – although he’s a bit nicer about it than I am!

This entry was posted on Monday, February 20th, 2006 at 7:39 am by Jeremy Toeman and is filed under General, That's Janky. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.