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Allows electronic dance music fans to listen to DJ sets like they were albums. Users are able to view tracklists, skip tracks, and jump to specific songs. They have the ability to quickly skim through sets or instantly play any song contained at any point in any DJ set.

Interesting, but sort of scary and wrong at the same time.

This site details all standards & guidelines for developing and delivering products and services for BBC online (bbc.co.uk).

This keyring-friendly USB device lets you swap contact details instantly. Simply pull out your Poken and ‘high five’ it with your new best friend’s. Clever RF technology then zaps the info between the devices, so next time you log on to your favourite site, your profiles are linked. Genius!

How do you take digital information into the physical world? Print it, of course. But that's just the beginning...

"Capture your displays as a Photoshop layered image". Can't think of a use for this yet, but cool.

Workflow tips. "The thing that’s hard about Git for most people is the same thing that’s hard about all DVCS tools: if you’re used to centralized systems, they work weird [...] It’s also really easy to never grok DVCS, so when something unusual happens, you don’t know how to fix it."

We want to be a fun, inspiring place where you make your own 3D designs come to life using 3D printing.

As both the Internet and casual sex continue to rise in popularity, e-cards have also seen a rise in use. But the e-cards that connect all of those things aren't your typical "Happy Birthday" with a picture of a cat popping out of a cake; they're aimed at notifying partners that they've been exposed to a sexually-transmitted disease or infection.

You want to read about the code structure of the new whitehouse.gov website on this historic Inauguration Day of the 44th president of the USA. The site is built on ASP.NET

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"An open source flash MP3 player which can be customized and integrated into websites easily. It has 5 different versions that lets you only use a "play button" or a player which lets users to choose tracks from multiple files."

Another mac svn client. This one looks like it might be quite good.

‘Ow-do, Ken?

New label from the Slutty Fringe boys.

Papercamp writeup from Jeremy Keith.

The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, which will publish the “Social Media Futures” report compiled by Future Foundation next week, has warned that advertising agencies face growth of just 1.2 per cent a year by 2016 if the industry fails to tackle the changes to the media created by sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

"Its been a good run, now please leave." Yes, please do.

'Hearts' is quite an exceptional album about heartbreak and, despite it lacking in instrumentation Line makes great use of the sounds created for the album and supplements it with some wonderful lyrical flourishes. I changed my mind about this album the more I listened to it.

Another review of Hearts: "Line – aka Neil Wells – has delivered a straight forward, but powerful brew of techno and downtempo beats, with some wicked tunes to boot."

"wpSEO stands for efficient, fully-automated and affordable SEO in WordPress, the state of the art Weblog-System. WordPress SEO made easy." Pay.

[We] thought it would be interesting to take some stuff from the internet and print it in a newspaper format. Words as well as pictures. Like a Daily Me, but slower. When we discovered that most newspaper printers will let you do a short run on their press (this was exactly the same spec as the News Of The World) we decided to have some fun.

We were wrong about the first-time shoppers. They did mind registering. They resented having to register when they encountered the page. As one shopper told us, 'I'm not here to enter into a relationship. I just want to buy something.'

The lighting designers take the rap for light pollution once more. Allow me to say a word or two in their (or, er, our) defence.

Journalists, Bloggers & Media Outlets on Twitter

Run instant usability studies for your website using your real users. You can get it up & running in seconds with one line of javascript, and immediately watch movies of your users’ browsing sessions to analyze their behavior.

A Fistful Of Dollars: The Story of a Kiva.org Loan.

“This could be one of those incredible sci-fi films that unfortunately goes unnoticed and becomes a cult classic that every film geek loves.”

tiltshiftmaker.com – Transform your photos into tilt-shift miniatures

This looks like it might be brilliant.

Good to see a bit more info on this. Experimented with irccat after seeing it mentioned at FOWA a couple of years ago but had trouble getting the dynamics right for a multi-project model.

It's out! But it's PC only, which is a shame. "A 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics."

Clever. Evil.

The latest data from AdMob, the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace, shows that Apple now dominates the mobile web in the U.S. with a 48% market share. This growth, interestingly enough, does not just come from the iPhone, but the iPod touch also saw a meteoric rise in usage during the last month.

Maps generated from the location data of over 28,000 pubs from www.beerintheevening.com. Each pixel on the maps corresponds to 6.5 km2 on the ground.

"When media giants fight over music, you know it has to be valuable. Looking, listening and occasionally buying a "good" song drives revenue, tremendous web traffic and generates big advertising dollars." Great article (with a pitch for TuneCore's new model thrown in at the end).

"Creates an Instant Private Network ™ (IPN) between users." Looks interesting.

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