New Media Roundup - Mon May 14, 2007

Goodbye Pandora
Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora, sent out an email today saying that they haven’t made much progress with licensing their service for non-US customers. They’d managed to keep the service going for users in Canada and the UK (as well, of course, as the US), but that they are now having to block Canadian […]

New Yahoo Pipes Features

Yahoo Pipes has a number of new features, including the incorporation of Yahoo! Maps. Great for finding apartments near something, or pretty much any geoweb application. It works at least for American Zip codes and Canadian postal codes.
I tested a customized pipe on Toronto Craigslist listings, for apartments, since I’m trying to move back there […]

DJ Chaos Playlist - Sat May 12, 2007 - Heavenly Voices

Here’s today’s DJ Chaos playlist, Heavenly Voices. This list is a collection of music videos where the lead vocalist is female. I’m not sure why I love the female voice, but I do and even write many of my songs for a female voice. Here’s a sampling of some vocalists that I’ve either been influenced […]

Internet TV: Joost vs Babelgum

Video online is hot (VideoJug just pulled in US$30M) and there are loads of streaming video sharing sites. But there are very few standalone applications that play video. One is Joost, the other is Babelgum.
If you know about Joost then you know that bandwidth issues aside, it just may be the future of television on […]

DJ Chaos Playlist - May 11, 2007 - Dancing About Architecture

The following list used MusicMesh starting with REM and psuedo-randomly exploring “related artists” suggestions. I created a playlist and built the “Dancing for Architecture” YouTube video SplashCast (at right, after starting the SplashCast player, see the channel guide).

The Flaming Lips - It Overtakes Me

My Morning Jacket - Worldless Chorus

Neko Case - […]

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