I think that this is the first day to myself since Golden Week. I've spent the last couple of days of free time on the new i7 iMac. To now, iLife (most importantly iTunes to keep my iPhone working) & Aperture are essentially the only apps installed. I Just added some wicked photography filters for Aperture from Nik Software. Today is a beautiful day outside. Too bad my Nikon D90 isn't with me.
I've just found out, by looking at a friend's blog, that the iTunes store has short weblinks. Who else knew? And if you did, why didn't you tell me? :)
Amazon knows a little bit about me. They know what books I've bought from them and through their LinkedIn application, they know about a couple of books I didn't buy from them. But they might know about 5% of my reading habits. The most boring 5%, in fact, because it's the 5% I'm willing to wait 3 days for. With this information, they tailor my customer experience when I'm on their website and periodically send me targeted emails based on my buying habits. It doesn't do them a whole lot of good, because the other 95% of my reading habits are the interesting part they don't know about. It's the classic and modern fiction, the poetry, the essays...this is the stuff I would really love to get book recommendations on. But I don't blame Amazon for that. How could I? They know nothing about it.
But iTunes, on the other hand, has no excuse. When I set up iTunes and became an enthusiastic user, I ripped every CD I owned so I could carry my favorite music on my iPod. They know more than just the music I've purchased from them (probably 5%), they know EVERYTHING about my musical tastes. So what do they do with this information? Do they customize my user experience? Well...no. Come on! Tell me they use a Pandora-esque application to acquaint me with new music based on the music in my iTunes. Ummm... Do they at least use email to market to me based on my musical preferences? Wow. This is embarrassing.
I haven't watched much anime recently. Partly because I'm very busy - or maybe because I was too lazy to download some. So anyways, one day, I was looking at my iTunes Genius Recommendations. And I must say, it's one Genius indeed. This song was recommended by iTunes - so I started to listen to it. Even though it's a (very) typical anime-ish OP theme song, it grew into me. I somehow loved it, especially the part from the 39-th second until the 62-nd second.
So I looked the anime up in YouTube and it's called "にゃんこい！" (Nyankoi!) - and I thought "Eh? This is interesting". I might start to watch their episodes if I have time. Even though I'm a dog person I still love cat-eared girls. Though dog-eared girls are better (google Wanko to Kurasou) but that's beside the point. The point is that this anime is interesting enough to make me Google it.
Let me tell you that it's a (very) typical anime, from the looks of the Opening theme. If you've watched it please tell me how the anime is. From the looks of it, I probably would stop watching after a few episodes - but yeah, I won't judge an anime based on the opening theme. Speaking of anime opening themes - only one anime opening theme have made me cry. Guess which opening was it? I guess I'll make another post about it later on. I'll tell you how this anime was in my opinion later on.
One of my friends just mentioned that it's a great love comedy and guess what? I love love comedies. I'll probably enjoy this anime so I'm going to download the first episode right now. It may turn out to be better than I initially thought. I haven't watched much anime this season, after all. Oh wow, for once iTunes is introducing me to a great anime!
"Every utility will have its own version of the iTunes App Store,” said Austin Energy, CIO of Austin Energy, during this morning’s utility panel at GreenBeat 2009 in San Mateo, Calif. — essentially, every major utility, in order to be at the cutting edge of the Smart Grid, will need to have a full portfolio of applications that can help their customers trim their energy use and their monthly bills."
I'm not buying into this argument that Google needs to launch a desktop app for the Android Store:
My advice: get used to the cloud. It's much better.
Wer mitabstimmen möchte, muss zuerst Fan der iTunes Facebook-Gruppe werden.
Muss man heutzutage eigentlich für jeden Quatsch Facebook-Mitglied sein?
Schliesslich bin ich als iTunes-Store-Einkäufer ja schon dort registriert, warum also nochmal Facebook?
Ja - ich weiß - Cross-Marketing...
So far we have:
I love controlling my home audio with my iPhone/iTouch. Apple makes this possible with the free Remote application.
