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[George Duncan]

How ubiquitous can this platform get. Not iTunes but i"Got it all"?

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real good


Stanford and Apple Present "Stanford on iTunes"
Posted by: eobanb Oct 21, 2005 - 01:05 PM
<http://applexnet.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1636>

In a creative and unexpected move, Stanford has teamed up with Apple
to offer a variety of audio files, such as news, music, sports, and
faculty lectures, available for download from the iTunes Music Store
for free, by anyone. It's called Stanford on iTunes, and at the same
time that some files are available to the public, course material and
advising content is available for students connecting from within
Stanford's network. Although the total number of tracks available is
only a few hundred at the moment, more are being added soon,
demonstrating exciting possibilities for a system like iTunes and the
iPod in education.

The iTunes Music Store is becoming increasingly a misnomer for what
is manifesting as a media delivery and sharing platform. Was this
Steve Jobs' plan all along? In 2001 when iTunes 1.0 was first
released, who would have guessed that universities might use it for
courses?

[snip]

Stanford on iTunes site: <http://itunes.stanford.edu/>




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[Owen Densmore]

Just tried listening to a lecture and it worked like a charm.  I was  
trying to figure out how it was better than a vanilla web site like:
     http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/
for example, and the integration into iTunes lets you trivially load  
it into your iPod.

So Apple may find itself the Amazon of free iPoddable software?  The  
"draw" to their site just might make it work.  Now the question is:  
can they do it with their own server/software?  .. or is a Linux or  
Sun box lurking under the hood!

     -- Owen

Owen Densmore
http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org


On Oct 22, 2005, at 6:18 PM, George Duncan wrote:

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> How ubiquitous can this platform get. Not iTunes but i"Got it all"?
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> From: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
> Date: Oct 22, 2005 2:45 PM
> Subject: STOP:: Stanford and Apple Present "Stanford on iTunes"
> To: Multiple recipients of list stop <stop at privacy.cs.cmu.edu>
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> real good
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>
> Stanford and Apple Present "Stanford on iTunes"
> Posted by: eobanb Oct 21, 2005 - 01:05 PM
> <http://applexnet.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1636>
>
> In a creative and unexpected move, Stanford has teamed up with Apple
> to offer a variety of audio files, such as news, music, sports, and
> faculty lectures, available for download from the iTunes Music Store
> for free, by anyone. It's called Stanford on iTunes, and at the same
> time that some files are available to the public, course material and
> advising content is available for students connecting from within
> Stanford's network. Although the total number of tracks available is
> only a few hundred at the moment, more are being added soon,
> demonstrating exciting possibilities for a system like iTunes and the
> iPod in education.
>
> The iTunes Music Store is becoming increasingly a misnomer for what
> is manifesting as a media delivery and sharing platform. Was this
> Steve Jobs' plan all along? In 2001 when iTunes 1.0 was first
> released, who would have guessed that universities might use it for
> courses?
>
> [snip]
>
> Stanford on iTunes site: <http://itunes.stanford.edu/>
>
>
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