 RAIN 11/18: Halyburton launches media firm; don't expect iPhone Flash, says Wired ·Nov 18, 12:02 PM HALYBURTON LAUNCHES MEDIA STRATEGY FIRM “Early web-radio pioneer” (as Tom Taylor at Radio-Info calls him) Dan Halyburton will step down from his Emmis/NY manager post to launch Halyburton Connected, a “new and traditional media” strategy company. Halyburton will run the company from Dallas, where he headed Susquehanna/Texas before moving to New York. There’s more today from Tom Taylor here (pdf file).
APPLE TERMS OF SERVICE PREVENT FLASH ON IPHONEAlthough Adobe says it’s building a version of its Flash player software to run on the iPhone, a story in Wired says it’s unlikely Apple will allow it, based on Apple’s iPhone Developers’ “Terms of Service.” Wired writes, “Flash has evolved… into a multimedia platform capable of running applications of its own…
Flash would divert business from the App Store, as well as enable publishers to distribute music, videos and movies that could compete with the iTunes Store.”
Aside from the competition, Wires suggests Flash applications might “hurt battery life, suck up the graphics-processing unit’s power, use an inordinate amount of memory, or potentially introduce security risks.” More and more webcasters are using Flash as a platform-agnostic streaming solution (98% of desktop computers support Flash), and many hoped that the platform would bring streaming radio to the iPhone without the need for a downloaded application. Read the Wired article here. PANDORA, AOL RADIO IPHONE APPS MAKE GIZMODO “20 ESSENTIAL” LISTStaffers at tech blog Gizmodo published a list of their favorite iPhone programs, and Internet radio apps from Pandora and AOL Radio made the cut. Gizmodo likes AOL because it streams KCRW/Santa Monica; it calls Pandora the “best Internet radio app, hands down.” Other music related apps in the Top 20 include Remote (an iTunes controller), Bloom (ambient music generator from Brian Eno), Shazam (song recognition software), and Simplify Media (iTunes-to-iPhone streaming software). Check it out here.
POST COLUMNIST SAYS SIRIUS XM CHANNEL CHANGE IS DEATH OF SATELLITE RADIO’S “PROMISE”The Washington Post’s Marc Fisher says the Sirius XM channel combination (RAIN coverage here) “represent(s) a real shift away from satellite radio’s original promise.” He writes, “The merged channel lineups also mean the elimination of a bunch of niches that spoke to the idea, espoused by former XM programming chief Lee Abrams, that satellite would be the one place in the popular culture where even esoteric genres of music could be heard — and where those mini-audiences would be aggregated into a large enough total audience that those minority passions could be served indefinitely.”Hmmm, sounds like a job for the musically expanse universe of Internet radio… Fisher rolls-calls the dead (music channels): Beyond Jazz (fusion and acid jazz), Fine Tuning (free-form eclectic), Vox (choral works/vocal classical), Cinemagic (movie soundtracks), and Chrome (70s and 80s dance tunes). XM eliminated three of its four Latin music channels, as well as its European pop channel, and its channel of “long-form concerts and interviews with rock and pop artists.” Read Fisher’s column here. ROACH: INTERNET RADIO NEW LOCAL FMLloyd Bankson Roach, founder of all-local Internet radio BrandywineRadio.com, in Philadelphia, sees parallels between the struggling births of FM and Internet radio: “NAB does not feel that Internet Radio is worthy of membership, nor does my state organization PAB (Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters). This is amusing to me because I remember well when the NAB didn’t consider FM ‘Real’ radio and as a result the NAFMB was founded.” …For more, read his full essay in RBR here.share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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