Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
There has been a lot of buzz recently about OpenTape, which is an open source project spun off from muxtape after it got into trouble with the RIAA and others. It basically lets you host your own music playlist from a web server, allowing anyone to stream your shared music from the web.
However, this will open you up to the same legal problems that muxtape had… since sharing your music, even by streaming it in real-time, is a touchy subject at the very least.
That being said… since we think OpenTape is such a cool piece of software, we have written a step-by-step tutorial on how to set it up on your own computer for the purpose of sharing your playlist privately and securely with just the people you know and trust. Its also a great way to listen to your own home playlist while you are at work or out on your laptop. Everything you need is free and it takes just a few minutes to get it up and running on top of Remobo:
Securely Share Your Entire Music Collection using OpenTape
It gives you one-click access to all your music from anywhere… and also lets you share music with your buddies securely and privately 
For those totally unfamiliar with OpenTape, here are some links to the recent buzz, to get you up to speed:
techcrunch.com
readwriteweb.com
gigaom.com
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
When I introduce Remobo to people, one of the first questions peole ask is: How did you come up with the name “Remobo”? Well, Remobo started as the combination of two words: “Remote” + “Mobility”.
At our startup company, AWIT Systems, we are a small distributed team that collaborate remotely. We don’t have a central office where people work in the same LAN environment everyday from 9 to 5. Wherever we work or play, we wanna be able to access all our computers & devices, from whatever computer we can access at that moment, and we don’t want the overhead of time and money to build, configure, or maintain our own VPN network. Essentially, we want to create a virtual computer network that’s centered around “humans” (ie, us), instead of “computers” (as it is today for existing VPN solutions).
So, instead of carrying our computers & devices with us and limiting our network access based on the computer identity, we rolled up our sleeves and created this new technology of virtual computer networking that decouples “Computer Identity ” from “Humain Identity”; we call it “Instant Private Networking (IPN)”, and Remobo is the first showcase of our IPN technologies.
With Remobo, You can create your own IPN, which can be accessed from any computer that you happen to log into at any time, and you can run all your favorite client/server applications over this Remobo IPN.
Remobo has redefined what a virtual network means to people: it allows the computer network to be created around the human user identity, instead of fitting human users into computers and their networks. And this is where the name “REMOBO” comes from: we’re RE-defining what “MOBility” is abOut; It’s humans that need mobility, not the computers.
The CEO of a prominent laptop manufacture has recently said: “30 years from now, you won’t see people carry their laptop computers around.” It’s true that, in sci-fi movies, you don’t see people carrying computers, either. Data should be available at whatever device they’re using from anywhere at anytime.
With Remobo, it’s time for the era of “Mobility 2.0″.
