Frankel & Co. release Ninjam for transcontinental jam sessions

Justin Frankel, creator of Winamp, and his new company Cockos, Inc., have released the first alpha of Ninjam, "a program to allow people to make real music together via the Internet." Ninjam is a quirky project that's difficult to explain, so you might be better off just heading over to the web site and reading it yourself. Ninjam deals with latency by exaggerating it completely, so the musicians aren't playing together in real-time; instead, each plays along with the measures their parners played a few seconds ago. It sounds weird, and may be black magic, but black magic and rock & roll go together like Celene Dion and laryngitis.