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SecondLife, wer es noch nicht kennt: Eine virtuelle 3D Welt im Internet die sich selbst durch seine User baut. Jeder hat die Möglichkeit Scripts und 3D Objekte wie Häuser, Schiffe zu erstellen. Der Fantasie sind dabei keine Grenzen gesetzt. Inzwischen gibt es sogar ein Magazin was in jeder Ausgabe über alle Neuigkeiten in der Pixelwelt berichtet. Es geht um Events wie Parties, Konzerte, Liebesgeschichten, Interessante Plätze und vieles mehr. Seit der letzten Ausgabe ist The Avastar auch auf Deutsch verfügbar. Zur deutschen Ausgabe.

Steve Jobs published an Essay about the future of DRM. He comes to the conclusion it would be better to distribute music wtihout DRM Systems in future for the benefit of interoperability. The current DRM Systems doesn’t work together and they are bound to a specific hardware (e.g. Zune, iPod, sony mp3 walkman). A song pruchased in itunes won’t play on a player by microsoft.
I don’t want to buy music online. One reason for this are the DRM systems. The other reason is the pricing. A Album often costs online as much as the cd in the store, so why buy it online? The pricing model of legal sounds is acceptable. Would the companies/artists earn less money with this model? I think definitely no! Why? Because customers would buy more songs. Just my 2 cents.

This week I found a ruby on rails clone written in php. After completing the Screencasts I think it’s worth keeping an eye on the development of this framework as it generates (like ruby on rails) a lot of standard code for you and it’s pretty easy to use. But they should update their screencasts: the speaker is not very convincing because of low volume and powerless speech.