August 2006 Archives

Earlier this month, a friend and ex-coworker Kevin Baird posted a video of the my.mp3.com service launch on the evening of 11 Jan 2000. This launch had lots of PR and was what eventually brought on the lawsuits that forced the company to be sold to Vivendi Universal.

The my.mp3.com development was a long stretch and a lot of work went into making that launch happen.

Recently, I experienced the launch of Stage6 at DivX and although there was no where near such a large crowd at the office at the time of launch. It did remind me a lot of the my.MP3.com launch days.

Enjoy this great historical video. Thanks a million, Kevin!

The above movie is hosted by Eyespot, which was founded by none other then another MP3.com alumni, David Dudas.

Ideally, I could download a copy and save people the bandwidth of streaming this each time they load this page, but I did not find an easy way to do this. Please be respectful of the bandwidth, since I know that hosting videos is not cheap.

It has been ages since I have made any changes to my personal site. So, this weekend, I decided to spend the time and update the look and feel a bit and make the site more modern.

I wil be making small tweaks over the upcoming months to make it fully compliant and bring back some of the old data I had on my site.

I also imported most of my old blog entries since 2000 that were scattered all over the net, which should provide a good archive for those of you who were not familiar with my previous writing.