Music

It's a special treat this week and we actually had Paul IN the studio, just like old times. He was in Seattle anyway- it's not like he came to Seattle just to visit Ping. He likes us, but let's not go overboard. Build has been built  [04:10] Xbox music streams  [11:59] XP going…

SurfaceDJ from Vectorform was one of my favorite applications shown at PDC.  Not only does it involve Multi-touch, Surface and music; but it is an example of a new form of collaborative application.  Joe Engalan and Markus Sheldon build up the music, keep it…

At the South by Southwest Interactive Conferece in Austin, Texas this past week, Mashery hosted a contest, Circus Mashimus to encourage people to create mashup applications using their customers' web services.  I learned about it a week before and decided to create an…

Last week I visited JamBase.com, a San Francisco-based website that is all about finding and going to live music performances.  I met Andy and his colleauges at the Bandwidth Conference this summer and after hearing about their new API, I just had to try doing a mashup with it using Popfly…

The incredibly nice folks at Hard Rock gave us a chance to peek behind the scenes at their memorabilia warehouse. Wow, what an experience. With 700 guitars, racks of clothes, shelves of gold records, pianos, cannons, electric chairs, and statues -- it was an incredible sight. I start at the…

Engaging with rich media—whether watching a movie, video chatting, or playing music—is one of the most prevalent and enjoyable things we do on our PCs today. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/06/08/building-a-rich-and-extensible-media-platform.aspx

No doubt you've heard that both Apple and Zune have come out with some new players and new client software. Both include some interesting features to help you find new music that you'll probably like using various methods of smart logic and social networking. How do they work? What makes them…

Richard Metcalfe, Brand Director for Harman Consumer in the UK recently visited Sydney. He is certainly enthusiastic about sound, and the JBL/Harman Kardon range of audio devices sound cool.With a guest appearance by the famous Australian Technology journalist and technical TV star, Alex…

So you’ve gotten all your Guitar Hero II achievements already and you’re looking to pick up a new instrument. You might want to try the Roll Up USB Drum Set by Dreamcheeky. For $30 you can be busting out your best Neil Peart on XP and Windows 2000 (a company spokesperson told me they are working on…

The weekend is when you get your household jobs done. Whilst previous generations would spend their downtime fixing leaky taps, painting fences and completing all manner of small repairs around the house, nowadays we’ve added a plethora of digital jobs to the task list. My current favourite?…