The Tagger is an MP3 and AAC tagger for Mac OS X that combines powerful features with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface. Its key features include:

• Superior tag support
  Organise your music with many more ID3 tags than iTunes and other music software.
• Discogs search
  Tag your music by searching Discogs, the most comprehensive music database on the web.
• Regex find & replace
  Use regular expressions to perform powerful, complex find and replace operations on tags.
• Delete iTunes personal data
  Delete personal data hidden in iTunes Plus files, such as account and purchaser information.

File renaming
Rename files from their tags to your own specification, or get tags from the filenames themselves.

• Advanced tag manipulation
  Case transformation, trimming, and prefix & suffix tools make tidying up tags a breeze.

Book on business aspects of Web services published (Weinhardt, C., Blau, B., Conte, T., Filipova-Neumann, L., Meinl, Th., Michalk, W.)

Abstract

Driven by maturing Web service technologies and the wide acceptance of the service-oriented architecture paradigm, the software industry’s traditional business models and strategies have begun to change: software vendors are turning into service providers. In addition, in the Web service market, a multitude of small and highly specialized providers offer modular services of almost any kind and economic value is created through the interplay of various distributed service providers that jointly contribute to form individualized and integrated solutions. This trend can be optimally catalyzed by universally accessible service orchestration platforms – service value networks (SVNs) – which are the underlying organizational form of the coordination mechanisms presented in this book.

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Benjamin Blau, Tobias Hildenbrand, Matthias Armbruster und Martin Fassunge (SAP AG) and Yongchun Xu, Rico Knapper (FZI) received the best paper award for their work „Incentives and Performance in Large-Scale Lean Software Development – An Agent-Based Simulation Approach“ at the „6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (2011)“. Consequently this leads to an extended version of the initial paper to be published in the Springer series „Communications in Computer and Information Science“.

"In today’s browser ecosystem, web apps are completely disconnected or require the use of complicated APIs in order to make use of a third-party service, e.g., posting a comment to Twitter from your custom publishing domain. What if we could give sites the ability to leverage these services without any knowledge of the chosen service, except that it provides some set of predefined functionality?" (James Hawkins, Google software developer).

Google Webintents provide a universal API framework to link distributed Web services and create value-added complex services. The trend towards service value networks where the consumer becomes the pro-sumer while creating services by composing existing applications within the service ecosystem becomes reality.