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by lozenge 1160 days ago
Oh, that reminds me of Windows Media Player which had like 8 separate music stores embedded in it, seemingly as an iframe. They had the most random companies running them as well, like phone companies, supermarkets, etc. Of course it was just a white label product, so why even include them all?
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LOL. I coded all of those. It was horrible. Not one of those companies gave a damn about the product, they just wanted a revenue share for putting a link in their stores or on their web sites.

The startup that I was working for was OD2, half-owned by Peter Gabriel, who is a very nice guy. He got us meetings with every label guy we needed to speak to. He gave me his iBook, bless him. OD2 eventually got swallowed by Nokia which of course got swallowed by Microsoft. The snake ate its tail.