Thursday, January 29, 2009
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What's in your name?
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What's in a Name? from christopher alan yates on Vimeo.
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What's in a Name? from christopher alan yates on Vimeo.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
I just can't imagine what will come next.
There are two new software applications that developers are focusing on that are so amazing, and a little scary. Obviously if this type of technology has filtered down to the consumer, it's not necessarily brand new, but just new to us. There is no telling what they are working on as you read this.
The first one I downloaded for free to the iphone from the Apple Applications store; it took about 10 seconds, and I now have a little widget called Shazam. If you hear a song on the radio, and you find yourself saying: "I wonder who sings that song and what is the title of that catchy little ditty?", simply press your Shazam widget, and after Shazam listens for a few seconds through the iphone's built in microphone, up pops the song title, the artist, and the option to purchase and download to your phone. Are you kidding me?!!
The truth is, it does not work 100%of the time, yet, but give it time and you know it will.
I found out about this other application on TED.com. By using tag words, this software can create a virtual photo from all photos on any given subject that have been downloaded to the web. Make sure and watch the video all the way till it finishes; the mind blowing stuff is at the end!
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
TED and Take That!
TED Conference
My friend Emily Kate Boyd recommended I check out this website. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
This is to me the best stuff I've seen on the web or tv in a very long time. The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
I can't get enough of it! Do yourself a favor and check it out. http://www.ted.com/
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Take that!
Last Tuesday evening I was sitting in the radio station that is WREK at Georgia Tech, 91.1 on the dial here in Atlanta. It is %100 all student run station, but don't let that fool you, this place is high tech and organized. From what I understand, they were the first station in the country to do live streaming on the web.
Anyway, as Jen, Emily, Brian and I awaited the start of our
very first broadcast
as The Vagabonds over the airwaves,
http://wrek.org/streamripper/wrek_live-128kb/Tue2200.mp3 (1st half hour)
http://wrek.org/streamripper/wrek_live-24kb-mono/Tue2230.mp3 (2nd half hour)
I leaned over to turn off the ringer on my cell phone and I felt something pointed and extremely hard attempt to peirce through the top of my skull. It was the tuning key on the A string of a bass guitar. It seems that my alleged friend Brian, had precariously placed it like a hunter would cleverly place a trap to come crashing down on it's unsuspecting prey.
Now Brian is a vegetarian, and he claims to be a passive non-violent person, so the words that came out of his mouth just seconds after the impact between pointy metal and the thin flesh on the top of my head baffles me a little.
He did'nt say, "Are you ok?!", or anything closely resembling compassion. What he said was, "Oooh, take that."
It wasn't like he took a second to come up with something snappy and clever, this was his knee jerk reaction..... and to add insult to injury , his totally unexpected reaction made everyone in the room laugh..... hard.
Watch your back Brian, that's all I'm saying. ;)
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My friend Emily Kate Boyd recommended I check out this website. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
This is to me the best stuff I've seen on the web or tv in a very long time. The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
I can't get enough of it! Do yourself a favor and check it out. http://www.ted.com/
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Take that!
Last Tuesday evening I was sitting in the radio station that is WREK at Georgia Tech, 91.1 on the dial here in Atlanta. It is %100 all student run station, but don't let that fool you, this place is high tech and organized. From what I understand, they were the first station in the country to do live streaming on the web.
Anyway, as Jen, Emily, Brian and I awaited the start of our
very first broadcast
as The Vagabonds over the airwaves,
http://wrek.org/streamripper/wrek_live-128kb/Tue2200.mp3 (1st half hour)
http://wrek.org/streamripper/wrek_live-24kb-mono/Tue2230.mp3 (2nd half hour)
I leaned over to turn off the ringer on my cell phone and I felt something pointed and extremely hard attempt to peirce through the top of my skull. It was the tuning key on the A string of a bass guitar. It seems that my alleged friend Brian, had precariously placed it like a hunter would cleverly place a trap to come crashing down on it's unsuspecting prey.
Now Brian is a vegetarian, and he claims to be a passive non-violent person, so the words that came out of his mouth just seconds after the impact between pointy metal and the thin flesh on the top of my head baffles me a little.
He did'nt say, "Are you ok?!", or anything closely resembling compassion. What he said was, "Oooh, take that."
It wasn't like he took a second to come up with something snappy and clever, this was his knee jerk reaction..... and to add insult to injury , his totally unexpected reaction made everyone in the room laugh..... hard.
Watch your back Brian, that's all I'm saying. ;)
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