Comments on: Zune, XBox, Trojan horse https://blog.yhuang.org/?p=30 here. Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:10:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Some stuff » apture… https://blog.yhuang.org/?p=30&cpage=1#comment-88572 Some stuff » apture… Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:24:23 +0000 http://scripts.mit.edu/~zong/wpress/?p=30#comment-88572 [...] At first I wasn’t too impressed with the technology. In terms of conception, popping up content on a page isn’t too much different from what people naturally do by opening tabs or what designers do in more laboriously manual fashion. Sure it looks nicer and saves work, but is that really going to revolutionize the web? Does that befit the ridiculous moniker web 3.0? Of course not. If that’s all there is, it’s a flash in the pan and stupid. But when I realized that server-side embedding is really what they’re doing, I recognized the Trojan potential in this, and I must say it’s a brilliant business move and sets up for potentially much more exciting technologies once they get around to implementing it. Everybody is trying to sell platform these days, and they do this by taking over your browser and making it merely a passive window, like a television set. If Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon, or Facebook can just get you to surrender your browser to them by installing one of their “platform” tools, then they’re set. They can leisurely figure out on their end what they can deliver to you, which is: whatever they want. What happens on the server side they can control. [...] [...] At first I wasn’t too impressed with the technology. In terms of conception, popping up content on a page isn’t too much different from what people naturally do by opening tabs or what designers do in more laboriously manual fashion. Sure it looks nicer and saves work, but is that really going to revolutionize the web? Does that befit the ridiculous moniker web 3.0? Of course not. If that’s all there is, it’s a flash in the pan and stupid. But when I realized that server-side embedding is really what they’re doing, I recognized the Trojan potential in this, and I must say it’s a brilliant business move and sets up for potentially much more exciting technologies once they get around to implementing it. Everybody is trying to sell platform these days, and they do this by taking over your browser and making it merely a passive window, like a television set. If Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon, or Facebook can just get you to surrender your browser to them by installing one of their “platform” tools, then they’re set. They can leisurely figure out on their end what they can deliver to you, which is: whatever they want. What happens on the server side they can control. [...]

]]> By: Zune Music, Zune Movies, Zune Downloads https://blog.yhuang.org/?p=30&cpage=1#comment-1156 Zune Music, Zune Movies, Zune Downloads Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:33:37 +0000 http://scripts.mit.edu/~zong/wpress/?p=30#comment-1156 Wow…Quite a discussion. For those in need of additional information on the Zune Media Player its Microsoft’s answer to the iPod. The <a HREF="http://www.zuneempire.net" rel="nofollow">Zune</a> can play music, movies, games and more. All that you need to is the proper software to convert the files into the proper format. Zune Empire has quite a bit of information on how all that works. Anyone who has done just a small amount of research finding media for a Zune, iPod or PSP will have figured out that the are many sites to download music and movies. You will also find yourself in the middle of the debate on file sharing and the repercussions of it. Though those with an iPod who are looking for ways to transfer all their iTunes to their Zune will be happy to know its now possible with the proper conversion software. Love to hear comments on any of the above topics. Wow…Quite a discussion. For those in need of additional information on the Zune Media Player its Microsoft’s answer to the iPod. The Zune can play music, movies, games and more. All that you need to is the proper software to convert the files into the proper format. Zune Empire has quite a bit of information on how all that works.

Anyone who has done just a small amount of research finding media for a Zune, iPod or PSP will have figured out that the are many sites to download music and movies. You will also find yourself in the middle of the debate on file sharing and the repercussions of it.

Though those with an iPod who are looking for ways to transfer all their iTunes to their Zune will be happy to know its now possible with the proper conversion software. Love to hear comments on any of the above topics.

]]> By: Zune, XBox, Trojan horse at Zune https://blog.yhuang.org/?p=30&cpage=1#comment-82 Zune, XBox, Trojan horse at Zune Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:22:33 +0000 http://scripts.mit.edu/~zong/wpress/?p=30#comment-82 [...] Original post by Aggregated News Alerts and software by Elliott Back _uacct = "UA-308578-9"; urchinTracker(); Uses 3-Column Anaconda Theme design by Simple Thoughts. RSS Entries and RSS Comments [...] [...] Original post by Aggregated News Alerts and software by Elliott Back _uacct = “UA-308578-9″; urchinTracker(); Uses 3-Column Anaconda Theme design by Simple Thoughts. RSS Entries and RSS Comments [...]

]]> By: Nate https://blog.yhuang.org/?p=30&cpage=1#comment-81 Nate Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:41:54 +0000 http://scripts.mit.edu/~zong/wpress/?p=30#comment-81 Well put, even as PS3 is a (Blueray) trojan horse, so is Zune for (insert item) Well put, even as PS3 is a (Blueray) trojan horse, so is Zune for (insert item)

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