2 posts and columns on DVD Jon

DoubleTwist Teams Up With Amazon to Take on iTunes

in News on December 15, 2009 at 5:10 pm PT

DoubleTwist, the media management software created by Jon Lech Johansen–a.k.a. “DVD Jon”–is teaming up with Amazon.com in its bid to create an alternative to Apple’s iTunes. Start-up DoubleTwist makes software designed to help users of devices other than Apple products, such as BlackBerry and Android phones, to organize and keep track of their music.

DVD Jon’s Ad at the Apple Store: The Mystery Continues

in News on June 12, 2009 at 2:52 pm PT

It’s up. It’s down. It’s up. It’s down. That’s the brief, updated history of a billboard-style ad posted by the Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen next to Apple’s store in downtown San Francisco, the subject of an item here last Saturday.