May 2008
63 posts
Senuti →
A simple software tool for Mac OS X that lets you copy music from your iPod / iPhone to your computer. Very useful if you loose the music on your hard-drive, but have a copy on your iPod.
French Kicks - Abandon I’ve been rockin the...
Brightkite Badge Widget
I was searching for a Brightkite badge this morning and couldn’t find one, so I took a few minutes to make one. Brightkite is a slick new tool for sharing short status updates that include your location. If you’re a Brightkite member, you can grab a badge for your blog or site here. Just enter your Brightkite user name, click “Run Pipe”, and then select “Get as a...
Flickr Stock Photography Marketplace
If I were in charge of Flickr, I would create an eBay-like marketplace for stock photography. Stock photography is a $2B+ industry. About half of that revenue is controlled by a handful of big companies like Getty Images and Corbis. The rest is highly fragmented across smaller stock agencies, photographers selling direct, and a bunch of other sources. Flickr has the opportunity to disrupt the...
“It is being built by us, for us. And it is being built without blueprints,...”
– Stowe Boyd, speech at the Next08 conference
The Blakes - Basket I added links to the bottom of...
'Biggest drawing in world' revealed as hoax →
I got punk’d. I was wondering how he convinced the DHL pilots to make loops over the ocean for the guy’s hair in the drawing.
Sharing mixtapes is an unstoppable idea. Muxtape...
Anthony wrote an intriguing post suggesting that Muxtape go open source so as to avoid legal action from the labels: Muxtape should be open source. If Muxtape was the easiest + best open source web tool to share your own music taste via a mixtape, that would be unstoppable. (more) I follow the argument that the labels are less likely to go after individuals who are self-hosting MP3 files than...
Laptopless
Someone broke into my apartment last night while I was sleeping in the other room. They took my MacBook and bag. Surprisingly, they left everything else including a camera and some nice headphones that were sitting right next to the computer. I guess it could have been worse, but now I’m out a laptop and all the files & music that I didn’t back up.
The good news: CSI is...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-25) →
French Kicks
Vetiver
Perez Prado
The Explorers Club
Bobbie Gentry
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“It’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you...”
– Barack Obama, commencement speech at Wesleyan University
MuxFind →
A Muxtape music search engine. It’s like MuxSeek, but better designed. Includes recommended artists and similar mixes.
iCaltrain →
Caltrain schedule for the iPhone and other mobile devices.
Perez Prado - Mambo Jambo Friday 4:39PM PST...
Vetiver - I Know No Pardon I had never heard of...
Jimi Hendrix - Pali Gap This is a track from South...
WatchSuddenly, Everything Happens, by Hejl
Pacman Cupcakes →
Yum. (via Cal)
WatchEl Viaje, by javiekitela If you use a feed reader and you like short, artistic video clips, I recommend subscribing to the Flickr Video Interestingness feed. Every day, a few beautiful clips like this are automatically delivered to me. They just keep getting better as more people discover video on Flickr. It has quickly become one of my favorite feeds.
The Explorers Club - Don’t Forget the Sun I...
Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra - Hey Ya An...
WatchBay To Breakers Yesterday was Bay to Breakers, one of my favorite days of the year in San Francisco. It starts out as a foot race across town, but soon turns into a city-wide party with thousands of people walking, dancing, and drinking their way across town in a sea of costumes and parade floats. This is a short clip I took with my digital camera. You can see more photos on Flickr (warning:...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-18) →
Stanton Moore
Pinback
Morphine
William Elliott Whitmore
The Go! Team
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
The Hold Steady - Party Pit Photo by dansays
San Francisco Tumblr Meetup - Tonight 5/16 7PM @... →
letsmeetinsf: Roll call! It’s on, Tumblrs. If you or your followers are in the Bay Area, please reblog this reminder.Make it happen, SF.
You Don't Know Bupkis
Did you know that the literal translation of bupkis (also spelled “bubkes”) is “goat droppings”? Now you do.
Stanton Moore - Poison Pushy I saw the Stanton...
Games With a Purpose (GWAP) →
Simple, fun games that pair random strangers to solve tasks like tagging photos and categorizing music. Players enjoy a game while the data that’s collected is used for other purposes that benefit…
WatchDavey Dance Blog - 3 Is The Magic Number I’m certain that I will never grow tired of the Davey Dance Blog (via fishel).
Automatically Pausing iTunes From Firefox?
You know how the iPhone automatically pauses the music you’re listening to when a call comes in? I want a feature like that for my browser. Throughout the day, I’ll be listening to music and browsing the web. I click on a video or a link that initiates some sort of audio and I have to flip into iTunes to pause my music in order to hear the conflicting sound. I want my browser to do...
“I wondered if the pipes could be turned into giant flutes, and if a machine...”
– David Byrne, who will turn New York’s Battery Maritime Building into a giant sound installation that visitors can play like an instrument. Opens May 31st
John Frusciante - Murderers Frusciante is probably...
Twitter: Are You Old School?
Are you an old school or new school Twitter user? Twitter user ID’s appear to be assigned sequentially, meaning a lower number indicates that the user joined the service relatively early. To find your user ID, visit your timeline on Twitter, click the RSS feed link, and look for a number in the URL. For example, my feed uses this URL: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/917.atom So,...
Last.fm + iPhone + YouTube = Time Killer →
From your iPhone, go to http://icanhaz.com/musicvideos and click on the edit field to enter your Last.fm user name, then click “run”. You’ll see a list of some of your favorite tracks from the last few months. Bookmark that page for future reference. Then click a track and the video will open up in the iPhone’s native YouTube player so you can watch the video...
WatchMoonlit Clouds, by SteveMcN
Powerset →
Semantic search for Wikipedia (more soon). Results include extracted meaning and structured refinement options. Nice site design.
Joe Lazarus AKA Dirty Laundry - Get Drunk I...