Last.fm: more visualization

if you’re still curious about your listening habits, Rocketsurgeon just published a nice overview on more than 10 Last.fm-visualizers & attention-analyzers.
I’m off to Barcelona for the rest of the week, see you soon!

YouTube video-player reloaded

Google Operating System has screenshots of the upcoming relaunch of YouTube’s flash-based video-player. although the embedded demo doesn’t work for me, it seems like the new player will feature cue-jumping to parts of the clip not yet downloaded as well as embedded thumbnail-preview of related clips.

Last.fm: Listening habits

Kalu Kalu’s visualization script unveils the (more or less) long tail of your listening habits using attention-data recorded on Last.fm (found on Rocketsurgeon, which is a good read for all things Music 2.0).

Pandora: back in charts!

music recommendation has seemingly been dominated by Last.fm recently (new widgets, video-content, mashups), while competitor & innovator Pandora was less lucky being forced to shut down services outside the US. at yesterdays press-event at the Museum of Modern Art (SF), Pandora  reported back with an impressive array of announcements, including…

  …a much needed revamp of [...]

Google: Hot Trends, Timelines & Maps

these days, the recently launched Universal Search is the predominant topic when it comes to Google. that, however, shouldn’t keep you from trying out some of the other very recent additions the search-company search, ads & apps-company has made…
launched today, Google Hot Trends feels like an – almost – real-time-version of the popular Zeitgeist periodical [...]

Zooomr 3.0 – Dave vs. Goliath

from my point of view, Zooomr vs. Flickr is the perfect web 2.0-rendition of the rather scriptical Dave vs. Goliath-meme, except that Flickr is a web 2.0 poster-boy everybody – including myself – seems to love – leaving aside recent censorship issues – which brings me to another point: I really think it’s [...]

Last.fm: introducing video

as reported here a few days ago, Last.fm  hast now started to integrate video-content with their service. nothing groundbreaking like personalized video-channels for now though, but nifty quality clips for selected artists (check The Knife for some examples).

Seth Godin: When Bloggers do stuff

Seth Godin on Truemors:
Which brings us to Guy Kawasaki and his new project. I disliked this project from the very first moment I saw the beta. It’s unlikely that it will fail. It will almost certainly generate a lot of traffic and a huge ROI for Guy. For the rest of us, it demonstrates just [...]

Google Universal Search

in what might turn the most substantial upgrade to their core search service since the beginning, Google’s Marissa Mayer announced the launch of Universal Search as of today. don’t expect a completely new product though. Universal Search is basically all about blending search-results from Google’s numerous vertical search engines (think news, images, video, books etc. [...]

introducing: Google Developer Podcast

Google Code Blog announces the launch of the Google Developer Podcast (subscribe here), covering:

Interviews with Google engineers, discussing areas of their expertise
New features, applications, and APIs that matter to developers
Open source projects that we work on and/or care about at Google
Projects that use our APIs and applications in interesting ways
News and events that we all [...]