Enough to make me buy it.

Thanks to Ryan Tym.

An astonishing and thought provoking TED talk:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/227

I want to post this under our ‘lifehack’ category - bringing a whole new meaning to the term…

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Amazing to see something in real life that resembles the channel 4 idents. Koolhaass divides people like marmite, but he is coming of age through the ambition and wealth of the emergent economies. Normally radical intellectual architects only get to make models, talk and write books. But, he’s building a full 1 kilometer square city in Dubai. Resulting in very questionable things like the Koolhaass Dubai Deathstar.

Some bright sparks at AQ Interactive have created a music application for the DS. Called the Korg DS10, it has synthesiser, drum machine, sequencer and effects and filters.

The idea is great but, for me, it’s the interface that will be the most interesting thing to explore. No use of the D-Pad or buttons, the whole thing is managed through the touch-screen. So many possibilities - can a novice keep track?

Look forward to trying it out.

Posted to subotron. Thanks to Conor for pointing it out.

After the triumph of B2B Magazine, I’ve got a short piece in the Technology Weekly section of mad.co.uk - a UK news site specialising in marketing, media, advertising and design.

It’s a short article entitled Open source, RSS and APIs - ignore at your peril. Essentially it’s questioning whether you actually need to build anything from scratch any more given the plethora of services already in existence and available for data-sharing.

I’m actually quite pleased with it. I think it’s a legitimate point of view and, as I concede, whilst not appropriate for all brand encourages another way of considering the approach to online communications.  But they haven’t included all links to the various sites. Bit of a shame given that it’s all about connectivity. And links are what make the internet the internet.

I’ll stop moaning. Good to get out there at all. All feedback is welcome btw.

I received an email this morning from a service called Spokeo.

“As a courtesy, we are notifying you that Spokeo users have found the following accounts for you:
Flickr schlemmsy on Flickr
Digg schlemmsy on Digg
Slide daniel.lewington on Slide

If you would like to make these accounts private, please change the privacy settings on the original network and Spokeo will update its search results to reflect your changes.”

I can’t help thinking this is the same kind of courtesy extended to characters in Francis Ford Coppolla’s The Godfather Trilogy before they’re summarily executed.

Basically it’s a sort of user-profile aggregator that trawls lots of sites looking for user information and will then update you when any content on any of those sites is updated by that individual.

Perhaps a quick visit? Unscrupulous employers may well.

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Use it to measure and ensure brand consistency and coverage. At a glance you can see the user icon and activity across the various sites e.g. number of posts. Check that you’re 1. visually consistent and 2. spreading yourself evenly across the sites that matter.

Der Spiegel reports that Klaus Kjöller of the University of Copenhagen has accused IKEA of “Swedish imperialism”. Apparently he and a friend, after an exhaustive study of the latest catalogue (along with the rest of North London) , have discovered that super items like beds get Swedish names whereas less-super items like floor mats get Danish names.

I wish everyone could just get along. But if you’re going to have a tiff then surely using something as non-confrontational as the names of functional items for the home should be applauded. No broken bones or black eyes. For now anyway.

Source: Thanks goes out to a colleague on the Hamburg office. We’re a network you see.

about the origins of electronic music in the UK but were too afraid to ask.” Angus

Three very very interesting films about the pioneers of new sound creation. Here’s the first film, looking at the work of Tristram Cary whom Trevor Pinch says was “dreaming of a future soundscape of London”. You’ve got to love that.

This is a man who was right at the forefront oftechnical innovation in sound/music. Lots know about Nam June Paik and his work in video. Add Tristram Cary to your portfolio of technology pioneers.

And the other two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX87F2noUR8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZ3a7OD7iU

Thanks to Angus. He has just bought a Yamaha CS-01. Didn’t know that? Read all about it.