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Next Step: Autonomous Music Producer Agents
The above song, produced the week of February 16th, 2026, was a test of Google’s Music_gen tool, which is powered by Lyria. The resulting song and associated image were created in about 30 seconds. The prompt was inspired by this human’s view from his window. That image is shown in the first part of the…
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Social Media – It Takes a Team
Rosie Berg of Pinnacle, a publisher of directories and web applications, pointed out in her MTA presentation that it takes a team to keep up with social media. She provided an overview of the many online tools that are available for an operator to stay in contact with its prospects and customers. One take-away, in…
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Championing Economic Development
Jim Baller of the Baller Herbst Law Group points out that economic development is the key motivation for the creation of broadband networks. At the 2011 Broadband Properties Summit, Baller led a track on economic development as it relates to broadband. He also discusses the role of a champion in making broadband successful in a…
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Look Out Google and Microsoft – Another Internet OS Is Here
One of the more intriguing booths at the Parks Associates’ Connections Conference was ViaCube and their Web OS. Via Cube is a cloud computing solution that can be configured as sort of a hybrid solution, whereby a home appliance can be used as a local store of data. At the same time, the customer benefits…
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Nostalgic after all these years
Is it possible to be nostalgic, for the past, in only three years? Perhaps… when those three years were a bit rapid, radical, and rewarding. The videos below, from Viodi View in 2006, reminded me just how much the video world has changed over the past three years. I became nostalgic. Above is a sample…
