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IT’S FREE
When you’re done, you get to take home the goods!  The whole album is download-able – FREE.

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INSIDER TIP  *Track 2 – The Painted Man has been my favorite. I got to hear it early and LOVE.

What it does is enhances your existing calendar, so you can have certain times in a day you’re never available (and always available).

When you make an appointment with your regular calendar (iCal, etc), it syncs with Tungle and and if the appointment is during one of your available times, it switches your status on Tungle to unavailable.

You can also add a profile pic, bio and social links, and gives you a custom URL for business cards, email signatures, etc.

Could be cool, or just another unnecessary step in my organization. I’ll let you know.

WHAT I LOVE?
I love Google going mobile. They’re doing massive amounts of geo location research, which will translate into me being able to live seamlessly offline and online, more effectively.

And I love the cloud apps: Gmail, Google Docs, NOT Buzz, because they’ve freed me from the CPU sucking burden that is Microsoft Office.

And I love Google attempting to provide the human race with 1 gig up.  True data liberation that should be granted to all men and women, not just those with money.

I could go on, but I hate long blog posts.  Most people know how ubiquitous Google is, and how smart.  They’re real thinkers who care about what I care about.  Most of them are around my age, I guess, or younger, and living everyday to innovate and liberate.

WHAT ABOUT IN 20 YEARS?
Most of us have been in relationships that start out great and end badly.  We see only the good stuff, but somewhere along the line the other person changes.  Or maybe we do. Either way, we want out and hopefully in the time between we didn’t give up too much of our personal power.

Couldn’t this happen with Google?  Mightn’t they change, or us, and we want out?

At some point there will be a full employee turnover, has to be – people die or retire and are replaced.  What if these new people have different ideas about privacy? What if they have less respect for the data we’ve so freely given Google?

Also, if Google is embedded in all of our media, won’t they have a little too much control of how we think, feel and act?

I’m not saying I want Google stop.  I am saying that the ‘do no evil’ slogan might not be the slogan in 20 years, at least not in practice, and that we should start talking about the ramifications if/when that happens:

LET’S START A CONVERSATION (add your own questions in the comments)

• Do we want a private company to have as much or more power than the government?
• How can we create boundaries without slowing innovation?
  

♥ Add your own questions in the comments ♥

RCRD LBL website, though, has been an amazing discovery tool for me.  They send out at least 2 free mp3s daily within their newsletter.   Often the track is from an established artist just trying to promote a new album, and is usually so good I’d pay if I had to.  But I don’t.

DISCOVER MUSIC WITHOUT A RADIO
I don’t really have time to check out music everyday, so  I’ve started a folder in Gmail titled ‘Music To Check Out’. Once every couple of weeks I kick back and listen to all the insane RCRD LBL newsletter music.
Then I:

• connect w/ the artists on their MySpace page
• download the free MP3s
• organize them in iTunes
• sych them to my iPhone.

DAMN RESTRICTIONS
One unfortunate thing is, it seems Lala does not sych my RCRD LBL music.  This is a bummer since I adore Lala music service, who let you mirror your iTunes library and have all your music in the cloud.

I’m holding out hope that the restriction gets lifted eventually.

Check out Midnight Rockers Express Side 2 for an example of the sick music RCRD LBL pushes.

RCRD LBL