Posted by on under social networking site, coue, twitter, google, dodgeball, co founder, sourced, jaiku, popularity | 
In October 2007,
Google bought the Finnish social networking site
Jaiku. In the following couple of years, they somehow managed to do absolutely nothing with it, even as rival Twitter rose in popularity. Today, co-founder
Jyri Engeström is
leaving Google. When
we last talked to him in May, Engeström seemed to be enjoying what he was working on at Google. And as he told us in January, "
We're not dying, we're morphing," after Google decided to cease internal development of Jaiku. Rather than killing off Jaiku completely,
like it did with Dodgeball and others, Google decided to allow Jaiku to be ported over to App Engine, and open-sourced. Sadly, still not much has come of that. And now, it's unclear how much Engeström will have to do with the project from this point on.
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Posted by on under cathode ray tube, cheap internet access, jeffrey lim, square waves, impulse tracker, sine waves, freeware dos, pop c, mattt, jose torres, malleability, drumkit, sawtooth, epicenter, george michael, youngster, amg, sourced, nostalgia, chiptunes |
Jeffrey Lim's Impulse Tracker, a freeware DOS app popular among chiptune makers in the late 1990s.Photo: Dave "SMOKEHARD" Mattt Sine waves, square waves, sawtooth and triangle; white noise for a drumkit, and a cathode ray tube for a stage. Being geeky, I was into computer-generated music as a youngster, long before I caught up with pop music. In an age before cheap internet access, however, there weren't many folks to share it with. So it's with not a little jealously to see today's chiptune scene, fed as much by fresh, unhinged creativity as the nostalgia it often evokes in listeners. One epicenter of all this is 8-Bit Collective, where dozens of new tracks are uploaded daily, sourced from an army of thousands of registered users. Founded by Jose Torres and George Michael Brower, it describes itself as the first file-sharing community dedicated to chiptunes. "Pure malleability," Brower said, describing the essential qualities of computer-generated music. "I'm put off by anyone who refers to chiptune as a 'genre' because of the diversity you'll find under that umbrella."...
Tagi: cathode ray tube, cheap internet access, jeffrey lim, square waves, impulse tracker, sine waves, freeware dos, pop c, mattt, jose torres, malleability, drumkit, sawtooth, epicenter, george michael, youngster, amg, sourced, nostalgia, chiptunes
Posted by on under california designers, prefabs, little ones, plywood, sourced, playhouse |
You may have seen Modern Playhouse’s Wedge and Circle Houses floating around on the internet. In fact, Inhabitat recently featured these uncomplicated, eco-friendly playhouses created by two California designers and mothers. Built with recycled and locally-sourced materials, these adorable structures are made to last. The designers themselves describe their minimalist creations [...]
Tagi: california designers, prefabs, little ones, plywood, sourced, playhouse
