Week 3: Technology Thing

http://www.songbirdnest.com/

Songbird, a desktop/web mashup application that lets you play and organize media from the web in an easy way. Go to a website, and Songbird's software will fetch all the media files contained in the page and display them for you as a playlist. Or drag any media from any web page into your library and have it at your fingertips for repeated listening (and viewing -- it handles video just as smoothly).

Songbird also does the basics you'd expect from any media library application (letting you manipulate and play all the media on your computer), is available across all platforms (just like Firefox, on which it's based), and handles every conceivable kind of file (mp3, AAC, WAV, you name it), so it could very well become your go-to dashboard for web media. Plus, it has an adorable design, with its little birdies.