Ulanism

I love my little iPhone application called Shazam. When requested, it listens to the music around me for 15 seconds, queries the internet, and comes back with amazingly accurate results. I was at the Elbo Room grooving to Dub Mission a few weeks back when DJ Sep spun a track by Fat Freddy’s Drop. Shazam successfully tagged it and I promptly forgot about the song.

I had a few minutes to kill today and decided to go through my tags. Most were pretty standard research but then I came across an amazing live video of Midnight Marauders and was instantly hooked. A very happy two hours later I can now provide a bunch of links to Fat Freddy’s Drop media.

They are a G-R-E-A-T group! I love their energy and message. Big Up!!

Fat Freddy’s Drop

Midnight Marauders – Live

Midnight Marauders

Wandering Eye

Roady

Hope (Live)

I love this video! Fantastic stuff. You keep doing what you do Michelle =)

Not to take away from 50 year-olds who still want to dance their far-too narrow behinds off… I was sitting with a friend the other day talking about Madonna’s Hung Up video. She always tries to stay up on the latest urban “Thang” and this piece is no exception. Her dancers include the founder of Free Running, Sébastien Foucan, the stars from Rize along with a crowd of dancers on a Dance Dance Revolution stage.

Maybe it is just me but I think it is weak to try to dance with people who are so obviously better than you while you pull some moves that were lame in the 70’s. I guess she wants to be forever young and feels no shame in tossing in gratuitous crotch shots of her on the floor and humping a radio. Well, at least Miss Prissy got some air time =)

Free Running
Nice Free Running Collection

Rize
Battlezone
Tommy Crump Hip Hop Clowns

DDR Tournament
DDR In Japan
Paranoia

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And where does this come from you ask? Well this video won the award for the best Southern African Dance Video a few years back =)

Kulenyane

PS: Here are some folks rockin’ down in Oz to Hard House…

Melbourne Shuffle

So the story goes like this.

I’m sitting at the iPhone Dev Camp 2 in this cool demo by Proximi on how to implement copy and paste on the iPhone. I am simply blown away by the amount of thought Proximi has put into this issue. The slide-show is worth watching for everyone interested in user interface design issues.

It is clear that the answers to multi-touch problems faced on the iPhone will see broad use in the future. I am very happy Apple and the App Store developers are leading the direction of this conversation as I believe we are in good hands. Proximi is an excellent example of how early App Store developers are passionate about building social, multi-touch and location aware solutions that are both easy to use and powerful.

In any case, the guy from Proximi goes through his slides in 15 minutes and then opens the floor for discussion. Zac White immediately chimes in with a new perspective. What followed was a 5 minute back and forth between two developers who had never met before.

Yes, it is true that applications can only write to their own bundles (each is in their own sandbox). But… every application can READ from the entire phone. Zac suggests that each application write to a specific place in its bundle “copy location” that can then be read from every application. Zac started writing the code earlier that day to review all of these areas and grab the latest data.

Proximi’ definition of a “targeted field” (seen in the 7th minute of their presentation) helped Zac figure out a few hooks to let his library use the results.

This short and public discussion laid the groundwork for what is shaping up to be the copy and paste solution for the iPhone (at least until Apple chimes in!) Proximi’s, MagicPad and Skorpiostech’s Cocktails demonstrated working version of Zac’s code within 24 hours. I see now that both Wordpress and Twitallator are jumping on board. Yeah!!!

Open Source is the future (Zac libraries are Open Source)! Everything is possible when we work together to solve common problems =)