{"id":9242,"date":"2006-10-09T07:46:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T07:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9242"},"modified":"2006-10-09T07:46:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T07:46:03","slug":"word-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9242","title":{"rendered":"Word on the Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new\/recent coinages to point out:<\/p>\n<p> <b>Zuned<\/b> &#8211; it&#8217;s what happens when you lose all of your digital music due to a glitch in DRM software. Coined by Michael Robertson, anti-DRM spokesbot and founder of MP3.com, creator of Lindows\/Linspire, and the Skype competitor SIPphone. Robertson predicts the Zune is going to be the biggest tech flop of &#8217;07. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrobertson.com\/archive.php?minute_id=219\" target=\"new\">piece<\/a> on Robertson&#8217;s blog. Robertson also coined &#8220;ScrewedForSure&#8221; for &#8220;PlayForSure,&#8221; Microsoft&#8217;s DRM technology.<\/p>\n<p> <b>Netcast<\/b> &#8211; Not coined by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twit.tv\/\" target=\"new\">Leo Laporte<\/a>, but a term he&#8217;s now trying to promote to replace &#8220;podcast.&#8221; He believes (and we agree) that the POD part is misleading to newbies (who think you need an iPod to listen) and now that Apple&#8217;s legal goons are going after people for using POD in products and services, it&#8217;s as good a time as any to make the switch to something more universal. Read the TUAW <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2006\/10\/07\/leo-laporte-wants-to-rebrand-podcasts-as-netcasts-i-agree\/\" target=\"new\">piece<\/a> about this.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\"><br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><br \/> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new\/recent coinages to point out: Zuned &#8211; it&#8217;s what happens when you lose all of your digital music due to a glitch in DRM software. Coined by Michael Robertson, anti-DRM spokesbot and founder of MP3.com, creator of Lindows\/Linspire, and the Skype competitor SIPphone. Robertson predicts the Zune is going to be the biggest tech &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9242\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word on the Street&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}