Free stuff? Sure, I’ll jump on the bandwagon
If it’s good enough for Ewan, it’s good enough for me! Someone has come up with a way to back up your entire iTunes library online. I gotta admit, that sounds insane, but it isn’t a free service, so I guess they can find a way to make ends meet. I’m really curious to know how they do it though. I mean, it seems really inefficient to me to have 1,000 users all save a seperate copy of Stairway to Heaven. Would make much more sense to save one copy of it, and then note that each of those 1,000 users has that song. But whatever, that’s for smarter minds than me.
The basic gist of it is, the service is called Bandwagon, and while it’ll be a pay service, they’re offering a free 1 year account to any blogger that pimps their site. Pretty smart. Especially if we all get hooked on it and decide to renew. I have no idea what the pricing is, or whether it’s any good, but I’ll pimp just about anything for free schwag. What can I say? I like the freebies.
So here’s the official trackback to their post, and here’s the logo:
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I agree you that this may be inefficient but not for the reason you present. My iTunes library is about 30 Gigs — that’s a lot of data to back up. It’s a front-end hit, though (all that data gets uploaded in one shot, perhaps over several nights) because the data never *changes* just gets added to, which means the 30 Gigs gets uploaded once to bandwagon.
And as for bazillions of copies of Stairway to Heaven, they’re probably using a technology called Single Instance Store — across their entire database only one copy of each identical song is kept.
Megan Golding
2/21/2007
“Bazillions of copies of Stairway to Heaven”: a case of the answer’s in the question?
Only kidding – cheap shot and it’s bedtime… 
You going to Building Learning Communities? Would love to hook up since it was your evening cruise podcast that’s got me excited about going this year to talk for the first time.
Ewan McIntosh
2/21/2007
Steve- Always glad to find a fellow freebie seeker. Not sure if you are connected to their marketing arm or not (other than as a motivated poster). But if you like things audio I have some audio books on my site that address some of the issues of branding and PR as part of your marketing plan. The books were written by Michael Levin and narrated by Lloyd James. The specific URL is http://www.audiofilefun.com/Title.aspx?titleId=6381&srch=advertising Also, if you are interested you can sign up for my affiliate program (Lower right corner of site.
Herb Fuller
2/23/2007