From the closet artists..
..through to the activists and guerillas..
..and the hard boiled and serious..
..to the utterly ridiculous, Cleaning Unit:
I'm usually quite a sceptic when it comes to these things, but this actually doesn't look too bad.
Get 3D data into maps by crowd sourcing:
During the past couple of months I've been working on this Poke project for Orange. It's an amazing feat of web technology where you can record your own sounds and have them mashed up with your friends into songs.
We built this project using a Django backend, Sox, lame, ffmpeg and aubio for audio processing, amqp-js for realtime communication between flash and the server, red5 and an IVR system for note recording and lots of glue in the form of RabbitMQ.
For the song playback we use Standingwave, an open source AS3 library for sequencing and synthesising sounds.
Be sure to check out the auto tuner and phone recording, it's special. =)
Here's my incredibly silly attempt on Ting tings - That's not my name:
This is the original
I dare you to go make a better one! The Sound of Orange Rockcorps
There's some seriously cool technology in Project Natal but I can't help feeling totally creeped out by the boy in Lionhead.
Some really interesting facts in this video by XPLANE and The Economist
- 95% of all music downloads last year was unpaid for.
- Youtube, MySpace and Facebook takes 250 million unique visitors per month.
- Nokia makes 13 cell phones per second.
Brushing up on natural language processing (NLTK) and saw this amusing example from the Brown Corpus.
Seems like Trouble is for a Girl what Butter is for Bread.
Having used the Amazon web services hosting stack for a while, this email felt quite ambiguous.
