May 2008
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It’s been a pretty heavy week… Really unexpected! Trying to keep a hold on reality!
Playing Recycled @ Newcastle Uni this Saturday!
Sunderland is streets ahead for broadband - Times... →
Sunderland is best known for Nissan, football, and possibly call centres, but it has now been revealed as the best-connected city in Britain.
Going to get stuck in to Flash. Need to make a banner.
DRM is dead, long live DRM →
DRM to live on… Now that might seem odd, given that Napster has just announced a major online service offering six million MP3 (ie DRM free) tracks, and that Amazon already offers something…
Napster launches MP3 music store →
Napster has launched the world’s largest online music store without digital rights management (DRM).
Eddie Halliwell - Radio 1 Tracklisting (16/05/08) →
More massive support for Neuroscience from Eddie Halliwell on BBC Radio 1. Eddie plays Santiago Nino - Invent, forthcoming on Neurosicence Deep.
Good week for Neuroscience - A play from Markus Schulz on GDJB and Armin van Buuren on ASOT.
All the news that's fit to print (about your block... →
EveryBlock’ is a new web based news application that can ‘geo-tag’ news relevant to a specific location.
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The future of social networking: mobile phones -... →
Packed with features such as internet, GPs and Bluetooth, are mobiles the future of social networking?
New concept Nokias Provoke a response →
Nokia design contractor Provoke Design has unveiled a few new concept designs it has put together for the ‘HARDCORE New Finnish Design’ exhibition in New York later this month.
I think my brain has stopped working! Need something interesting to do today!
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Google helps the web to go social →
Google has joined the drive to make the web more social by introducing tools to enable people to interact with their friends.
My so-called digital life →
Darren Waters from the BBC’s dot.fife blog writes an interesting piece on Google’s ‘Friend Connect’ and managing our incresing digital footprint.
The Google Street View car causes a stir in Rome →
Google car spotted in Rome (Italy) taking street level pictures of the city - Coming soon to Google Earth/Maps?!
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Reeloop Spin
As a digital DJ myself (current using M-Audio’s Torq/Conectiv setup), I like to keep up with development in this area.
Reeloop have now entered the arena with the ‘Reeloop Spin’ package.
Reloop Spin comes with time-coded vinyl and CDs, plus a cheeky little white audio interface to hook up your decks.
It’s running a skinned version of MixVibes software, which stands up well...
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Brightkite
Last week I managed to get an invite for Brightkite. Brightkite is a site offering “location-based social networking” and includes a number of features to allow you to do just that. Brightkite allows you to update your profile by posting micro-blogs (is a similar way to Twitter) or photos about your current location. These posts can be viewed by selected friends or everyone, depending...
Got the final wav of Daniel Kandi’s remix of Kiholm - Fragile… It’s sounding awesome! Going to be a massive release for Neuro! :)
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Microsoft looks at $15bn takeover of Facebook -... →
Following the recent failure of Microsoft’s takeover talks with Yahoo!, they now eye up the social network site Facebook. Is this another bid to buy some online credibility?
TorrentSpy ordered to pay $110m →
File-sharing site TorrentSpy has been ordered to pay $110m (£56m) in damages to the Motion Picture Association of America for copyright infringement.
I’m now on Brightkite (beta) - Username chearmstrong. Will post a blog in a few days after I’ve had a play!
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Seems like a waste of a day… Sun is shining outside, and I’m stuck at work bored!
Nokia keen to launch browser-based mobile... →
Nokia appears keen to explore some exciting mobile based web 2.0 applications using Ajax.
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Socialthing!
Yestersay, after receiving an invitation, I signed up for the beta version of Socialthing!
Socialthing! is a sort of pseudo lifestream, allowing you to track your ‘digital life’ in one place by adding feeds from various social sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Last.fm.
In essence, Socialthing! is a very good idea and I expect that it will become a very popular tool as...
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Neuroscience 17 (April 2008)
17.1 [Ché Armstrong] 01 Eric Prydz - Pjanoo (Original Mix) 02 John Dahlback - Blink (D.O.N.S. & DBN Chainsaw Remix) 03 Santiago Nino - Neo Culture (Original Mix) 04 Santiago Nino - Candy Mountain (Original Mix) 05 Progresia - Tears Behind Sunglasses (Original Mix) 06 Fast Distance - Eternal Blow (Anhken Remix) 07 Gareth Emery - This is That (Original Mix) 08 D. Ramirex & Mark Knight -...
Banksy - The Cans Festival. - a set on Flickr →
Photos from the Cans Festival which was a stencil art festival in London. The show was open to anyone with but was a stencil only event. Artists included Banksy, Bsas Stencil, Ton Civil and Pure…
May 21, 2008: Thinking Digital at The Sage... →
The Thinking Digital conference will take on an eclectic range of technology-based topics that have (or soon will have) a profound effect upon the way we work and live: from the future of media and…
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Nice to see the sun shining today… Just wonder how long it will last!?
Apple forced into iPhone contracts U-turn - Times... →
Italy has become the first country to sell the iPhone on a non-exclusive basis, suggesting that Apple’s strategy of tying its device to one network in each territory may be unravelling.
Wii: More than just a game - Features -... →
Nice article about the incredible Nintendo Wii (the greatest games console created?) and alternative uses for the Wii Remote. Includes an interesting paragraph about using the Wii Remote to control.
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Fire Eagle
I recently got an invitation to the private Beta of Fire Eagle which is a new project from Yahoo! Research Berkeley.
In short, Fire Eagle is a location broker. It allows you to update or provide your location via a number of applications. It’s been covered on quite a few other blogs so I won’t go to much in to it here.
At the moment, I have ZoneTag running no my N95 (which I normally...
Jun 28, 2008: Neuroscience at The Other Rooms →
Neuroscience @ The Other Rooms
Next to Digital, Times Square, Newcastle upon Tyne
Saturday June 28 / 10:30pm - 4:00am
£8 NUS / £10 Others
Kyau & Albert (Euphonic Records)
Luke Terry (Mondo…
Got a new blog at Tumblr which can be found at http://blog.chearmstrong.com. Check it out!
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New Blog
Hello everyone… This is the home of my new blog. Well, it’s going to be more than just a blog! I plan to incorporate feeds from the other sites I use (Flickr, Twitter, Upcoming, etc) and display those alongside my blog posts. It’s going to be more of a ‘lifestream’ which is tipped to be one of the next big web 2.0 things (apparently).
As for my blogs, they will...