“Google, Universal to Launch Music Hub ‘Vevo’” and other links…

wired.com: “‘Vevo will bring the most compelling premium music video content and services to the world’s single largest online video audience,’ Universal Music Group chief Doug Morris said in a statement. ‘We believe that at launch, Vevo will already have more traffic than any other music video site in the United States and in the world.’ …Unlike MySpace Music Vevo will not be a joint venture between Google and Universal, Google told Wired.com. The site will be wholly owned by Universal, the largest record label in the world, whose YouTube channel has more views than any other in the world (3.5 billion). Google will run all technology-related aspects of the service.” I had the pleasure of talking with Ken Chung and company last Wednesday about joining the team. The interview was quite a workout but almost totally fun!

“MvcContrib source code has moved to GitHub”

Eric Hexter: “We recently moved the MvcContrib projects source code over to GitHub. We are hoping that the ease of creating forks and pulling them back into the trunk will allow for more contributions to the project. I know that GIT seems to be a source control system that few developers in the .Net space seem to know about but Jeremy Skinner created a great tutorial specifically for the MvcContrib project.” This is, for me, a dramatic example of how times are a changin’: this high-profile Microsoft-technology project is rejecting (quite matter-of-factly) Microsoft technology! Moving to GitHub is a pro-Linux, pro-Open-Source smack-down for the Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

“Peer to Peer ASP.NET State Server”

CodeProject: “The peer to peer state server is fully backward compatible with the Microsoft provided state server and can transparently replace it. Peer state servers can transfer sessions to each other, improving the reliability of session state dependent web applications. Peer state servers also act as a security layer that protects session data on the network. …This project started out as a simple idea but quickly evolved into a complex task. Hopefully, this implementation and other ideas presented in this article will be valuable to developers interested in distributed systems. Due to the level of complexity, there will be bugs and kinks to work out. Contributions and bug reports will be appreciated.”

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