August 2008
15 posts
Aphex Twin, Girl/Boy Song. An evocative track. ...
tabbed interfaces and audio playback
It’s sweet that you can have 10 or 20 or so tabs open in Firefox or I suppose IE7 but it’s frustrating that you can start some music playback on one of them and then forget which the hell one of them it was. Would be really cool if the browser could signal to you which tabs were generating audio.
Plastic Operator “Home 0207” - I only...
ELO “Don’t Bring Me Down”…...
“Gimme a Beat” from New Girl Talk...
Testing Apture on some Last.FM top artists
The Cult; Def Leppard; Ladytron; Beastie Boys; Weezer; LCD Soundsystem; Mylo; Arms and Sleepers; Duffy; Neil Diamond; Damone; Jet; The Cribs; Morphine; Ramones; AC/DC; Van Halen; Sonic Youth; Silversun Pickups; The Killers; The Smashing Pumpkins; Fugazi; Röyksopp; Armand van Helden; Metallica; The Darkness; The Raconteurs
Downloaded cool Mac dashboard widget “Tumblet.” This is just a test. Love Tumblr!
WatchMyles McInness (a.k.a. Mylo) on imeem. This is not a Video - it’s an imeem audio playlist but I couldn’t figure out how Tumblr enables basic embeds other than video, so I tried it… and it worked. You just may have to wait 15 seconds or so for it to show up.
Kim Hiorthoy’s “Beats Mistake”...
Yahoo! Music API - YDN →
This is interesting. Yahoo is opening up their Music data services to 3rd party developers (with a rate limit of 5000 calls a day). I wonder if there are provisions for this in all of their data provider & content partner agreements.
picture phones
I never regretted not having a camera on my primary device (blackberry 8800) until Tumblr made it so damn easy to post photos via e-mail. Now I REALLY want an iPhone. I just need it to be encrypted ActiveSync so I can get company mail on it. When is that coming, Steve?
monetization
Spent 20 minutes trying to convince my banker brother that “monetization” means something real.