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The wonderful box.net online storage site now allows you to post MP3s and videos (and what have you) straight to your blog. Which is nice. Here is ‘Baby Kate’ by Heartthrob, on m-nus. Enjoy!
As if that weren’t enough, box.net is also thoroughly integrated into the equally wonderful netvibes. Netvibes is a ‘custom made web 2.0 home page solution’ (they say) which basically allows you to aggregate together lots of feeds from various sources, plus add an ever-increasing number of custom modules for functionality like calendars, to-do lists, and so on. And it’s free! The new cinnamon release of netvibes also feature lots of swanky new features including video search (search for and play videos from google video and youtube) and writely document integration.
The box module allows you to access all your files while in your netvibes page, and to play any music tracks in the integrated netvibes flash player. Yay! I have an ever-growing library of tunes uploaded which I can now enjoy from any web-connected computer. It’s like we are living in the future, or something….
my anonymous canadian friend banjeroo’s blog is f**king hilarious. i enjoy it plenty.
My good friend Louis Atkins is a fantastic DJ, and also a very lovely person. And because I think he is so great, as a DJ AND a person, I thought I’d upload a mix of his, to box.net. Enjoy! You can download it (90MB), or stream it, to see if you like his style…
Let me know what you think, and if you are a promoter in the London area who wants Louis to play, get in touch!
OMG! WTF?
I’m not dead. I was just busy. But I decided to start blogging again, somewhat regularly. I miss it. And I’ve got lots of stuff to talk about, some of which might even be interesting or amusing, or both. Ideally both. And videos! I’ve been thinking a lot about videos. Also, I’ve suddenly got lots of talented DJ friends, about whom I’ll be talking real soon.
I’d like a tshirt which says ‘OMG WTF’ on the front. Perhaps I will make one…
MASSIVE congratulations to my very good friend/homeboy Dr Pier "Science" Sazio on having his paper published this week in the extremely prestigious journal Science. Pier and his colleagues at the University of Southampton Optoelectronics
Research Centre and Penn State University have successfully made semiconductor devices, including a transistor, inside
microstructured optical fibers. This is, of course WAY cool, even if you don’t immediately GROK the wider implications. Trust me, it’s massive. Go Pier! You are PROPER SCIENTIST at last! (JOKE!)
Wow. I’ve just read the extremely complimentary post on Tim Cowlinshaw’s blog (Sociable, Semantic, and Suitable) about little old Headshift and it’s enough to make us blush. It’s wonderful to know that people appreciate what we are doing (or even noticing at all!) and all the more so when they write so cogently and insightfully about what we are trying to do. Makes me a little embarrassed that I haven’t written about or for Headshift very much (I’d say I’m too busy, but that’s obviously just a pathetic excuse. I blame my youtube addiction…) I’ll make a special effort to blog about what we build from our perspective from henceforth. Anyway, thanks Tim, and why not check out the sites we built to which Tim refers, gentle reader?
Arabic words in English language Map (click a word, any word…)
I’m quite pleased with the look of the ‘tag cloud’, I was thinking that they are generally rather dull and undesigned and I tried to make it looks at least somewhat spiffy. If I had time I’d go back and Ajaxify the word-definition pages a little, maybe round off those corners and add a few reflections and gradients, some scriptaculous fade-ins and the like, but alas I’m FAR too busy watching Ultra Brain videos.
I had no involvement in this - my genius collegue Rory was the designer on this puppy. I’m ashamed to say I haven’t looked at it since it launched, but now that I have I’m LOVING the clean look and the subtle, accessible use of SiFR for those custom fonts. Way to go, chaps!
We’ve got lots of very exciting products/ideas/stuff in the pipeline and I have a few ideas of my own regarding urban gaming via social software/mapping/tagging mashups which I will be talking about soon…if you think you might be interested? (I just assume nobody who reads this even necessarily knows what a wiki is, so I might risk boring you all to death. Yes? No? Should I stick to crack squirrels and silliness?)
Spring is in the air, I’ve got a spring in my step and some fizz coming back to my neurons - I’m really looking forward to a fun and challenging 2006 at Headshift. I hope we can make some more stuff that makes a difference.
I really love YouTube. I mean, I know it is full of crap and cheap titillation, but then you come across something like this and it just makes your day.
"Jason McElwain, an autistic high school basketball team member in Rochester NY, served as the coach’s assistant and spirit leader for several years. On the final game of the season the coach let him finally put on a jersey with the rest of the team. Watch what happens then…"
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