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My Dad has been working as the head Software Developer for DoubleTwist a new program just open to the public through public beta.
The idea behind double-twist is that its one piece of software that is a kind of itunes but for every device at once. It can run zunes, Ipods, Iphones, psps, and many more, the list is ever expanding.
I personally just downloaded it and its awesome, it scans your Itunes and other such media players and puts all your music, pictures, and videos in one place, were you can easily sync it to whatever device.(It doesn't move them but just uses them from were they are for now)
Also they are coming with an update mid may, that will include features such as dragging youtube videos directly into your youtube section, uploading videos through double twist, and other neat shit.
It currently has a mac and a pc version, both are rather simmilar with a few problems here and there + Show Spoiler +the mac doesn't have a sync button yet and the pc cant drag things around
It is in beta so these problems will be fixed
It works great and is an awesome idea IMO
A little on the company from the site
+ Show Spoiler +
Who We Are
doubleTwist Corporation was founded in Oslo, Norway by Monique Farantzos and Jon Lech Johansen (aka DVD Jon) and is headquartered in San Francisco. We are backed by several prominent venture capital firms and individual investors.
The doubleTwist team is distributed between San Francisco and Tokyo, and consists of people from eight countries, speaking more than seven different languages, from Japanese to Dutch. We collectively own more than 200 gadgets and obsessively test every single one of them with doubleTwist while sending stuff to each other and to our friends and families around the world.
Why we're here
We started doubleTwist because we were disappointed by the quality of software applications offered by the major device manufacturers.
Our vision is simple: to create a unifying media platform that connects consumers with all their media and all their devices, regardless of whether they are online or offline.
We feel that just like you don't use a different browser for every web site you visit (Firefox to read the NY Times, IE to stream Hulu, Chrome to browse YouTube, etc) you shouldn't have to use iTunes for Apple products, Nokia software for Nokia phones, Sony software for Sony products, etc. The typical household today has many such devices and there is a need for a simple and powerful software that connects them.
http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/Index.dt
Edit: Pm me any feedback and I'll tell my dad, also ask any questions and I'll see what I can do;
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is awesome32274 Posts
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wow cant wait to try this
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Getting your parents to help TL? That's amazing. 
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well his salary doesn't hurt us either =], but ya go ahead and say its for the good of TL, Spread the word on this program, post or pm me if you do or don't like it TY tl <3
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Bill307
Canada9103 Posts
On April 23 2009 17:30 deathgod6 wrote:Getting your parents to help TL? That's amazing.
Wow. Do you live in Backwards Land?
To the OP: TLnet has a seperate place for posts like this: here.
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It's not really an add =[, its a free program that anyone can get, just spreading the news. I guess I shouldn't provide the option for people to give feedback to my dad cause I mean trying to help the community is clearly bad.
Don't see you posting this in people talking about other new products >_>
Edit; also how is this not helping TL Im sure tons of people would like me to post it in general rather than not post it at all
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Bill307
Canada9103 Posts
Who We Are
doubleTwist Corporation was founded in Oslo, Norway by Monique Farantzos and Jon Lech Johansen (aka DVD Jon) and is headquartered in San Francisco. We are backed by several prominent venture capital firms and individual investors.
Sounds like they have more than enough cash to pay for proper advertising. As I understand it, VC firms talk in millions of $s.
It's nice that you're just trying to help, but in the end it's still an ad for a commercial product.
On April 23 2009 17:46 Space[Fright] wrote:
Don't see you posting this in people talking about other new products >_>
That's 'cause I'm not a mod and I don't read everything.
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On April 23 2009 17:46 Space[Fright] wrote:
Edit; also how is this not helping TL Im sure tons of people would like me to post it in general rather than not post it at all
You could make the same argument for any ad.
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The company might have a lot of money but they didn't ask me to post it, I figured it'd be nice for TL members to see this, also I repeat its free so I don't see how I'm advertising but w/e, unless a mod wants it down I think its for the good of TL to leave it up, it is a sick ass program
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The only interest I would have in this program is so that I can delete itunes and still be able to load music/albums into my ipod. Reason being is that itunes always loads 2-3 other programs no matter what and also lags and is a huge resource hog. Does D.T. address these things?
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On April 23 2009 17:57 CharlieMurphy wrote:
The only interest I would have in this program is so that I can delete itunes and still be able to load music/albums into it. Reason being is that itunes always loads 2-3 other programs no matter what and also lags and is a huge resource hog. Does D.T. address these things?
I'll ask my dad and pm you in the morning or at some point tommorow when hes up, but from my experiences using it, it doesn't lag my comp at all
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Sounds like they have more than enough cash to pay for proper advertising. As I understand it, VC firms talk in millions of $s.
It's nice that you're just trying to help, but in the end it's still an ad for a commercial product.
This is a free program, and usually stuff like this is overlooked at the end of the day by the mods seeing as:
1. The poster really isn't getting anything from posting it here other than the fact his dad is working on it. He isn't directly getting anything out of it. In fact since his dad is working on it it's really more of a benefit to us as he can ask questions.
2. If it does what the poster says it does, it's legitimately useful, we have people posting here all the time asking ____ about iTunes or Winamp or something. I would probably feel different about this if he were advertising a new type of car his dad is working on or something.
3. I think we can tell from the original post it was made in good faith excitement over the fact the posters dad was working on it, not because he want to be a marketing machine. He's been here for about 6 months so this isn't like a "register and post everywhere about this" type of deal.
We have people posting ALL THE TIME to "VOTE FOR ME IN ____ ONLINE CONTEST!!!!" for possible monetary gain. This isn't that much different. I would let it slide imo.
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
Its a free program. He's helping his parents out sure but it seems like a very useful program. I probably wouldn't have found out about it without this thread and I doubt the ultimate success of it is going to be dramatically altered by a thread in general lol. Lets not overreact please.
~Venture Capitalist Meeting~
BigWig - So how are we going to make millions off of this?...
Space[Fright]'s Dad - hmmm well we could advertise but i imagine a single thread on the popular progaming website teamliquid will be all we need.
BigWig - We don't want it to be obvious though.
Space[Fright]'s Dad - no problem, ill get my son to do it.
BigWig - Excellent work heres a giant raise for the millions we are sure to make from back links HAHAHAHAHAHHAH!
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no chance of source code I suppose? nor a port to an open OS?
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Baa?21243 Posts
What file formats does this support? I can't seem to find a list on the site.
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On April 24 2009 06:09 tarpman wrote:
no chance of source code I suppose? nor a port to an open OS?
I'll check but I doubt about it =[, It is a company despite it being a free program so I doubt they have Open Source but who knows, it was founded by the guy who cracked the Iphone so ill check, again I doubt it however.
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If this thing can handle playlistas, coverart and all other kind of stuff, without FUCKING up my whole music database, then I'm all up for it.!
Does you dad knows if this is going to have CoverArt support, and CoverArt Downloader? A-la-winamp?.
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On April 23 2009 16:51 Space[Fright] wrote:
I personally just downloaded it and its awesome, it scans your computer and puts all your music, pictures, and videos in one place, were you can easily sync it to whatever device.
Hrmm. How would that work? does that mean it would put my soundfiles from random game. example music and whatnot into one folder along with my music?
that sounds like something a virus would do -_-;.
Other then that Im eager to try it thx for posting it. This is a legit post because even though it's an ad because: good ads are basically information about something that you would care to acquire
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