Word: songfulness
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...websites such as Last.fm, Pandora.com and the new Slacker.com personalized radio lets you train it to understand your tastes. You can, of course, just listen to the music passively as it plays on your computer. But it's even better when you make it your own, by marking each song as a favorite, skipping past it or banishing it from the station's playlist altogether. (See chart below for more details on how personalized radio works.) And despite growing concern about how proposed new royalty fees for Internet radio stations could hamper the industry's growth, on May 23 Sprint...
...pretty much at ease mentally at the summit, like I could sing a song...
...Americans watching? Let us count the ways: 1) lumbered across the wide stage to shake the hands of all 10 Jury members; 2) mispronounced the name of his lead actor (Mathieu Amalric) and the biggest international star in the cast (Max Von Sydow); 3) invoked the pseudo-French song "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" (from the Hollywood musical Gigi) to acknowledge the film's five lovely supporting actresses, none of them little girls; 4) insulted his host country, then tried to turn it into a compliment ("Many times they say, 'The Problem with France is the French,' but that...
...Secret Sunshine. That's the literal Chinese translation for Miryang, a town to which the thirtysomething widow Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon) has retreated with her young son Jun. In Miryang, people are friendly and compulsively helpful, especially a garage mechanic (Korean superstar Song Kang-ho) who is clearly, clumsily smitten by Shin-ae. She needs all the help she can get when another tragedy befalls her. She joins a Christian fellowship and indulges the mechanic's devotion. But her mind and spirit spiral into disarray as her behavior becomes more destructive and self-destructive...
This won't make Amazon the iTunes killer. There's no way Amazon will match the silky-smooth user experience of the iTunes store--I mean, interface design and hardware integration are what Apple does--or the depth of its song selection. DRM-free music is a nice perk, and the freedom-loving anti-copyright geekerati will be all over it, but there are more important things in life. And Amazon doesn't need to kill iTunes anyway. Amazon's music store will be a handy tool for setting up package deals and promotional giveaways and such, but that...