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Media Web Meetup: Portable Playlists

Monday, Dec 17. 2007  –  Category: Songbird

Our media web meetup last week was, imho, a great success. We had really good turnout, and a really interactive panel discussion between our four panelists:

• Tantek Çelik (former Chief Technologist of Technorati, and microformats expert)
• Lucas Gonze (XSPF and portable playlist guru)
• Scott Kveton (Open Technology Lead at MyStrands)
• Tom Conrad (CTO of Pandora)

Things got a little interesting with the debate over Flash (Tantek’s decision that “Flash is killing the web” vs. Conrad’s more pragmatic view of Flash as the default, if not standard). There was really interesting talk about XML formats and standards (and why you shouldn’t invent one), portable playlists, content resolution, etc.

I took some poor notes that inadequately covered the stuff - but one nugget I found particularly emphatic came from my colleague, Ethan:

Why use open standards? Because only the huge $$$ corporations can bear the cost of repeated proprietary closed integrations.

Better coverage can be found at Lucas’s blog or Scott’s blog