karaoke 2.0

SingShot, an online-karaoke-webapp (check this TechCrunch-post earlier today) made me waste spend almost two hours of my evening. basically it’s a flash-applet playing the instrumentals of a chosen song, tele-prompting its lyrics for singing-along on screen while recording your voice from the microphone. SingShot’s community will review and vote on your recorded [...]

does web2.0 connect with the masses?

skeptic from dead2.0 started an interesting series of posts, asking his mother – who he claims has been an average internet-user for years – about her knowledege of substantial web2.0-buzzwords. the subject of interest is given 30min, researching the given term on the web. covered so far: RSS and Wiki. unsurprisingly, the candidate has never [...]

Microsoft Live Labs – Photosynth

as read on Michael Martine’s blog, Microsoft Live Labs is developing an innovative approach on organizing photo-collections. their tech-preview Photosynth claims to automatically organize photos in 3D-space by recognizing particular features like a window-frame, or a doorhandle in images. using algorithmic simulation of depth-perception, Photosynth calculates the 3D-positions for each of the images, which can [...]

Second Life: slurlmaker HUD

Mark Pasc built a great in-game extension called ’slurlmaker’, connecting Second Life with social bookmarking-site del.icio.us. using an HUD (‘Head-up-display’), users can bookmark locations on the grid to their del.icio.us-account with a single mouse-click. from the web, landmarked places can be easily accessed via the slurl.com-service.

you can find my collected Second Life landmarks at del.icio.us/subnet/slurlmarker.

The Long Tail (of PLAY.FM)

Today I started reading ‘The Long Tail – Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More’ by Chris Anderson (editor in chief at Wired magazine). the ‘long tail’-meme, very popular especially among media- and internet-economists, is a metaphor for all products not found in bestseller-lists, but still accountable for a reasonable part of [...]

advertising: rentmychest.com

gnomedex-mastermind Chris Pirillo started his very-own personalized web-advertisement-platform earlier this week. after loosing 30 pounds of body-weight , he is now selling ad-words on his chest, starting at 50,- USD. though the offers seriousness might be questioned, this could be your chance to spread your message among the blogosphere! I’m thinking about getting [...]

logo 2.0

there seems to be this new sport among (unemployed?) graphic-designers who are reworking old-established logos and trademarks the web2.0-way (caught on dead2.0)…

if you’re addicted to web2.0-artwork, you might wanna try these links:

http://yh.yayhooray.com/web20logos.html
http://livewavecam.com/logoredesign.html

digg labs stack & swarm launch

unimpressed by the ongoing dispute between digg-founder Kevin Rose and AOL/Netscape’s Jason Calacanis concerning Jason’s lucrative offer to top digg-submitters, digg labs just launched two innovative data-visualization-features which might help staying ahead of Netscape.

the stack is a live-representation of users digging storys. each digg is visualized as a white bar dropping from above. each stack [...]

BlogTalkRadio gets podcasters on air

BlogTalkRadio is a service giving podcasters the ability to do live call-in radioshows without the hastle of connecting streaming-servers (i.e. icecast) with VOIP-software like Skype. though this basically doesn’t fit the asynchronous nature of podcasting, there is definitely demand for such an offering among podcasters. BlogTalkRadio (currently in Beta) will allow up to five people [...]

Slim Devices’ Transporter

Slim Devices, well known among digital audio-freaks for its open-source based streaming player Squeezebox, just announced their brandnew high-end product Transporter.

while the Transporter is similar to its little brother in many aspects (WiFi & Ethernet, playback-support for mp3, WMA, Ogg, Flac, AAC & Wave, based on extensible Slim Server software), its easily distinguished by many [...]