Posted at 10:41am on Friday, June 20th, 2008
Girl Talk’s latest album Feed The Animals is awesome. It’s also made up entirely of samples (list of some of which can be found at wikipedia). It’s not going to be available for long is my bet, so download it while you can.
It’s on a “pay as much as you want” basis, but $5 gets you FLACs.
As a piece of music it’s fantastic; as an exercise in sampling it’s technically faultless; and it’s a trainspotter’s paradise. Get it while you can.
Posted at 3:18pm on Thursday, May 24th, 2007
I’m sure you’ve already seen it, but just in case… Go have a look at Flickr Vision. If you have the screen real estate (and hey, who hasn’t got 3 monitors?) just leave it running. It’s awesome.
Posted at 10:01am on Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Announcing Netvibes Universe. That said, this and Yahoo! pipes and our time as mashup kings might be over 
Posted at 9:45pm on Monday, February 26th, 2007
Found at I Like… England Rocks – a Google maps/music history mash up. Nice.
Posted at 4:54pm on Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
I’ve been muttering previously about geocoding in the UK. It sucks. Everything is under heavy (and expensive) license restrictions and the Open Source alternatives are a long way from getting there. Luckily the latest job we‘re working on is an Australian Google Maps mashup (map my adventure, soft launched last week)…
One of the things that we’ve been asked to do is tie points on the map to the State that they’re in. Doug and I had been worrying about this for some time, as we thought that we would end up manually building polygons to represent state boundaries from a map ourselves. But no. Of course, we live in the UK and think that all map data is sacred. In Australia, and a lot of other countries too, the data is freely available and provided by the Government. You can download it yourselves too if you want.
Posted at 9:46pm on Friday, January 5th, 2007
We‘ve been thinking about a couple of web apps for a while that need UK geocoding, but Sleevenotez and Forkd (and some others that we *still* can’t talk about!) have kept us rather busy.
Over Christmas I got the time to start thinking about the next applications and the first thing I started researching was the excellent Google maps API, with a plan to some very basic geocoding. It took me a while to realise that the reason my test code wasn’t working wasn’t that it was bust, but that Google don’t allow UK address geocoding.
Further investigation showed that there’s a very simple reason – the UK is one of the few countries where the geocoding data is not in the public domain (despite being generated with public funds).
There’s a good piece on the current state of play, and the new alternatives, over at The Guardian. Both alternatives (npemap.org.uk and freethepostcode.org) are a way from being a viable alternative to the PAF file, but they’re definitely worth watching.
Luckily one of the two applications we’re thinking of is equally well served by the excellent Geo-Names web services. Quite what we’re going to do about the other one though, I don’t know…
Posted at 10:04pm on Monday, November 27th, 2006
Paul LaMere got in touch with us when he saw Sleevenotez because of the similarities with his SnappRadio service. Since meeting him I’ve started tracking his blog and it’s a wealth of music related information. Today’s hot pick is RateYourMusic – made all the better by the comments pointing out how to use their RSS feeds as a rather hacky API. I can feel another Sleevenotez integration coming on…
