Michael Arrington reports that Pandora is now free for users acceptig ads. I've been trying out Pandora when they launched an I liked it a lot: it's sort of a custom radio you can tune to your favorite genre by selecting an artist you like and letting Pandora play songs of artists considered similar to the one you chose. It's a good way to discover artists you don't know yet but probably I wouldn't have paid a subscription to it, now that's free I'll probably tune in. 
From all the hype that followed the leakage of Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie's memos I want to save this: Ray Ozzie recognizes the role of lightweight development and wonders if they're adequately serving that model for all classes of development, besides Access and Sharepoint. For what's related to Web development, I don't think they currently are, but their will to be is positive and also significant. It shows, on one side, a paradigm shift that's undermining the status quo of the enterprise development world. Very often things can be way simpler than J2EE or .NET or WS-*. Actually, they've always been, the difference is that now it's getting very difficult to hide it. On the other side, all this means that after the platform wars of the late nineties and early two thousands it's been people, not big companies, who chose what's gotta be used. You can't feed the Internet user as you did with the disconnected one, it seems.
Kosso liked and used my technique to publish his OPML weblog at his own domain. Nice!
