Links from 2008

Bloom is set of open source pluggable applications for rapidly developing mobile websites in Django.

An international music marketing collective offering sonic strategies for brands and their agencies, along with brand strategies for musicians, managers and labels.

There’s a whole world of domains out there—hundreds at the top-level and even more beyond—Domainr helps you explore them all.

Surprisingly good article.

Technique for IE specific stylesheets: "<!--[if IE ]><body class="ie"><![endif]-->" Clever clever.

According to reports most fans chose to pay nothing to download the album. However, it still generated more money before it was physically released (on December 31) than the total money generated by sales of the band's previous album, 2003's 'Hail To The Thief'.

Allows you to easily and unobtrusively upgrade HTML forms to use AJAX. The main methods, ajaxForm and ajaxSubmit, gather information from the form element to determine how to manage the submit process.

Library agnostic lightbox script.

Radar was set up in 2006 to inspire, empower and connect people worldwide through music video filmmaking.

I recently stumbled across Radar Music Videos. It’s a site that connects independent video producers with musicians, with some quite spectacular results. For quite realistic budgets, there are some very impressive music promo clips.

An open collective of electronic musicians and visual artists who use the internet as their main means of communication. It is a network of groups and individuals who come together to make live electronic music events happen.

A sound file format converter for Windows or Mac. Convert audio files from many different file formats into mp3, wav or wma.

Would have expected this to taste more exciting based on the number of ingredients. Ho hum.

Raaaar.

Brilliant, daft techno machine.

Takes the best bits of online auctioning, recycling and LETS systems and combines them into a simple and free item and skill bartering service.

A port of Hemingway for Wordpress 2.5 and 2.6.

Seems to be US-only for now. Wonder if labels/artists will be able to add their own lyrics through MusicManager?

An experimental add-on to explore geolocation in Firefox 3 ahead of the implementation of geolocation in a future product release. Geode provides an early implementation of the W3C Geolocation specification so that developers can begin experimenting with enabling location-aware experiences using Firefox 3 today, and users can tell us what they think of the experience it provides.

A lightweight and convenient system preference pane, that syncs your Address Book, Calendars, Tasks and Bookmarks between different Macs.

A full reproduction of the original Roland TB-303 [...] The x0xb0x will never become 'discontinued,' because it is fully documented and released (under an appropriate open-source license). The PCB files (schematic, board, BOM and gerbers), firmware, software and panel DXFs are available for download.

Social media strategy suggestions from Dubber.

The Featured Artists' Coalition campaigns for the protection of performers' and musicians' rights. We want all artists to have more control of their music and a much fairer share of the profits it generates in the digital age.

Expensive but yum.

A Django application that contains a widget to render a form field as a TinyMCE editor.

"The [service] attracting the most buzz is "WiFi Army," a first-person shooter game currently in beta. Like a mash-up of laser tag and the parlor game Assassin, participants meet on the street (using Google Maps) and "shoot" each other with their phone cameras."

"The system, which Tikitag confidently boasts will "build the internet of things," promises to let you add an RFID tag to anything you like and associate it with a webpage or application -- for instance, a business card that links to page with all your social networking information."

Reversion is an extension to the Django web framework that provides comprehensive version control facilities.

Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun’s finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies.

Brilliant Noise (via Headlessness)

Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure.

An online tool that allows you to create sIFR .swf files with a few clicks of your mouse. Simply upload the TTF font of the font you want to convert, preview and download.

"So why is the experience just an 8/10? For now only U.S. users can access the new music content [...] there’s lots of work to do on the product itself. There’s no way to share public playlists, for example. And unlike iMeem, MySpace Music doesn’t yet offer the ability to embed the music player into other sites. Also, my browser crashed repeatedly tonight while I was testing the service." 8/10? Talk about ratings inflation.

Xfm's unsigned band network. Bands can create a homepage, upload songs, post gig info, build a gallery and receive a unique Xfm Uploaded web address. They might even get played on Xfm itself.

The company states that in August, their mobile browser Opera Mini was used by approximately 17.3 million users, who viewed more than 4.1 billion pages - about 242 pages per user, per month.

This is much better if you watch it in context, rather than using the embed.

Very smart.

A powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL.