April 2008
16 posts
Mike's Muxtape
Currently uploading my muxtape.
This website is sooooooo sweet. Upload your favorite 12 mp3 songs, and they’ll stream them for free.
Today mine will include Gang Starr, The Cinematic Orchestra, Burial, Broken Social Scene, Air, Gotye, Justice, Lewis Parker, Lupe Fiasco, The Postal Service, Radiohead and Sigur Rós.
Listen to my muxtape. Then buy their albums. :)
p.s. Interestingly...
App Engine rocks
Yesterday I took Google’s App Engine for a spin.
If you’ve never heard of App Engine - it basically allows you to write interactive web applications and host them on Google’s servers.
What’s really cool is Google handles scaling your application. So, if your application is really popular, you don’t need to spend lots of cash on buying more servers.
At the moment...
Kevin Fudd
A pretty entertaining article from Craig Johnstone:
“Rudd is spending a lot of time telling the electorate what a good job he is about to do without actually doing anything much in the way of new policy or groundbreaking legislation. We are told to keep peering down the policy well for the gusher that is surely coming. In the meantime we read and listen to the commentary, much of it a...
Webcam speed dating. Please kill me.
Funny twitter quote that I found on Pete Black’s Freedom to Differ. It’s funny because a few of my friends and I were building a similar website before we were beaten to it by a number of competitors. When the competitors launched, we realized how pathetic it was and abandoned ship. I still think the idea has potential - but it will require more people to change their views about webcams. For...
Product idea
When you upload a photo to a website, your browser should offer to resize the image before you send it. It would save you time and bandwidth.
Computing in a cloud
I’m currently reading “The Big Switch” by Nicholas Carr. The main argument in the book is that, like electricity, computing power will move from being small, independent operations, to large, centralized, utility operations. “Computing in the cloud”, as it is sometimes referred to. It’s something Google has been saying for a long time — but we’re likely to see more utility computing operations in...
ChaCha →
ChaCha - a human powered search engine - was the new hotness about a year ago. Yesterday I wondered if they were still around. They are. But, they’ve reinvented themselves as a mobile concierge service of sorts. SMS a question, they’ll reply with human written answer. It’s not a new idea - but it’s clever.
Google Reader →
I created a Google Reader account ages ago - but then completely forgot about it. Now that I follow more blogs, it just makes sense to use Google Reader. It is the website I visit the most these days.
