Circle This: Episode #14: Three Men and a Little Podcast

Visit our podcast page over at the Zune website. You can subscribe via the Zune Marketplace or by using our feed in your favorite feed reader. Or download the MP3 file here.

Show Notes:

• Hosts: Marques Lyons, Neville Williams, and Julio Angel Ortiz
• Running Time: 73 Minutes
• Intro and outro music by Shohei Urata
• Server space provided by Travis Pope and Paige Aiden

Topics Covered:

• The Case of missing music in the Zune Marketplace
• Have you seen any missing artists? If you see something say something.
• The rise of subscription services?
• The Strength of Zune Pass
• Super Bowl Halftime Snooze-Fest
• What did you think of The Who as a halftime performance?
• Are The Who still relevant?
• Alternative Halftime Performance Ideas
• Pre-Summit Roundtable
• 3rd Party Apps on Zune HD
• Taking Zune (music & devices) international
• Digital Copies and Zune
• Zune on Windows Phones and only Windows Phones?
• Reading two disc albums on first and second generation Zunes

Link List:

• Zune – Missing Tracks Thread
• Zune’s Missing Tracks in the Press
• CNET
• ARS Technica
• Engadget
• BBC – Warner Executive talks about the potential of subscription music
• Wikipedia – List of Super Bowl Halftime Performances
• Yéle Haiti
• Text “Haiti” to 501501 to donate $10 to Wyclef Jean’s Haiti Earthquake Fund
• Yéle Haiti Homepage
• Yéle Haiti on Twitter
• anythingbutipod – DaveMacMS on developing non-game apps for Zune HD
• DaveMacMS on Twitter
• XNA Creators Club – Developing games for Zune with XNA Games
• Bing –Definition of Oligopoly
• EFF – Understanding the effects of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• Microsoft – Software + Services: The Greater Sum

Marketplace Recommendations:

• “Let it Rot” by The Cyanide Valentine [zune marketplace]
• “Lithium” by Nirvana [zune marketplace]
• “Zodiac Girls” by Black Moth Super Rainbow [zune marketplace]
• “Sci Fi Lullaby” by Silversun Pickups [zune marketplace]
• “Nothing But Your Love” by Toshi Kubota [zune marketplace]
• “We Have Explosive” by The Future Sound of London [zune marketplace]

Thanks for listening!