On TWist Episode 16 Jason talked about an idea to have fans of an artist pay a subscription fee to receive news and bonus mp3s from the artist.

I am a big fan of Pandora.com. Jason’s idea inspired me to start thinking about the possibilities for Pandora and a subscription model. On Pandora, a user creates a custom “radio station” that the user seeds with artists and songs and then trains by giving selections a thumbs up or a thumbs down. In addition, users are offered the ability to bookmark a song or even purchase a song.

You enter the extension you set up earlier in the “User ID” field. You enter the password you assigned to the extension in the “Password” field. And you enter the DNS name for your Asterisk server in the “Proxy” field. Tap on “Login” and Fring will register the extension with your Asterisk server and you’re ready to begin making calls and enjoying your new WiFi SIP phone.

The last time I posted about my home setup, I spoke about Virtual Iron. I went out and purchased a 4GB USB thumb drive and downloaded the Virtual Iron Standalone Edition and set up the USB drive to install.  And then it occured to me….Virtual Iron is great, but the server I was planning on [...]