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A new web service for listening to your own music, not sharing it, has been launched today. Called, blueTunes, it allows users to upload their music collection and listen to it via the web. Going on holiday? Take a laptop and your music will follow. At a party that lacks decent music? (We’ve all been in that situation I’m sure!) Login and blast a few of your favorites favourites!

Simple in form and function blueTunes sounds like a great idea and could be useful if you want your music here there and everywhere. However, as Michael Arrington points out on TechCrunch, is it legal?

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Genius was introduced in Apple iTunes 8. It is a feature that enables users to created playlists of music that ‘go together well’.

Since its introduction iTunes Genius has had an unfair amount of criticism. While it is not perfect, Genius is a useful tool which will improved upon given time.

While Genius relies on mass user input to work perhaps Apple should consider joining forces with some software and web-based services that already exist to greatly improve the feature.

Firstly, when I first read about Genius (before the official launch) I thought it would actually analyse the music itself rather than just data about user music collections and playing habits.

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I must stress that this is a test for the Firefox blogging plugin ScribeFire and therefore some formatting may be unusual. I take that back — formatting was perfect!

ScribeFire is a plugin for Firefox which will turn the popular web browser into an editor for boggers. ScribeFire supports many blogging services including; LiveJournal, Tumblr, Xanga and MySpace. Many blogging platforms such as WordPress, Moveable Type and Drupal, are supported too.

ScribeFire, an extension of Firefox ®, enables users to easily drag and drop formatted text from the Web into their blog(s), post entries, take notes, and optimize their ad inventory, directly through the Firefox browser.

scribefire.com

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iPod Nano 4G, originally uploaded by Roman Reisenberger.

The speculation is true — Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, has just announced the new iPod Nano. Let’s just say if you’ve seen a mockup or photograph that claimed to be the new iPod Nano then it was genuine.

The 4th Generation Nano has an oval cross-section and a widescreen screen as rumors rumours suggested. The new Nano has a built-in accelerometer to make viewing video, photo and your music collection (via coverflow) much like the iPhone and iPod Touch.

More later (maybe).

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According to Electric Pig Apple are definitely releasing a new iPod at tomorrow’s Let’s Rock event.

“We’ve just been given the nod from a top UK peripheral manufacturer that Apple’s poised to unleash new iPods tomorrow, followed by a slew of new accessories.

“The manufacturer, contacting us with details of its new range, is scheduled to unveil cases and peripherals as soon as Thursday…”

Unfortunately Electric Pig have not published any details about the products that the unnamed manufacturer are due to release, nor any details about what would be seems to be some sort of new iPod. Perhaps there is some truth in the rumors rumours about a new Apple iPod Nano.

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